Tony Maniaty was a featured guest at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival, appearing at three sessions:
Fact and Fiction: Navigating the Borderlands
Thu, 21 May 2009
Tony Maniaty joined Matthew Ricketson, Estelle Blackburn and Merlinda Bobis to discuss the implications for storytelling of real lives and real events including the ethical potholes that can appear at the intersections of fact and fiction.
Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor
Sat, 23 May 2009
Tony Maniaty discussed his latest book ‘Shooting Balibo' and his experiences in East Timor in 1975 for ABC TV News and in 2008 with the cast and crew of Balibo with Paul Ham, Australian correspondent for the London Sunday Times.
Shooting the Story
Sun, 24 May 2009
Film directors Benjamin Gilmour and Robert Connolly talked to Tony Maniaty about the challenges of low-budget film writing and film making in inaccessible and hazardous parts of the world: Gilmour's Son of a Lion was shot in Afghanistan and Connolly's Balibo in East Timor.
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