Chau'u Polo - A short film from Lospalos Timor Leste
This short film is a sensation!
We spent 10 days in Lospalos working with an enthusiastic group of young people, to build a media centre, equip it and to train them in all aspects of film making.
To train them we asked them what story they would like to tell and they came up with a positive drama based on a young boy they called Chau'u Polo. It's about a poor smelly schoolboy who is teased at school but who later in life becomes a local hero being very successful. And how does he get to be so successful? Through wisdom given to him by a very lage crocodile who befriends him whilst fishing one day!
Okay so how do we film dialogue between a young boy and a crocodile with no special effects, in remote Timor Leste and 'no speaka da lingo'? Simple the young people reply. We ask La Fiek (Grandfather Crocodile) to come to us and put in an appearance. So we did and so he did.
We believe this film is the first fictional drama short ever written, filmed, edited and screened by locals all in Tetun. The music is also 100% local with one song recorded on 'the street' outside the house we stayed in and the other written and sung by a young lad all in Fataluku. Fataluku is one of the many languages of East Timor, and is spoken in and around the town of Lospalos, in the Lautem district with about 35,000 speakers. As Fataluku is a Papuan language, it is very different from Tetun and most other languages of East Timor, which are Austronesian languages.
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Just came back from Timor Leste, what amazing strong people to come through what the Indonesians did to them.
lospalos,,, i was there twenty years ago.. still miss it
filme tali tahine, unidade sempre. viva lospalos
Ne Hanesan exemplo atu estuda makas atu sae serve ba Timor leste atu futuro
Chau polo💪
video ne fo motivasaun no vontade nebe maka diak losss...abrassoo i kontinua nafatin ho video2 sira seluk
Maun musik iha nakukun hau hakilar la iha ema ida mosu hakfodak hau rona ajuda tau iha youtube lai musik ne gaya d+🙏
Kapas lous💪 musik mos furak nx titulo cda krik?
kapas los. keep it up..
Just say, maybe you guys need appreciate my participation, include my as a support actors which asked Chau polo big "Ita boot sai suksesu hanesan nee iha segredu ruma karik"
Support 💐🌹❤🇹🇱🇹🇱
Kapass tebes motivasaun dk💪
Video ne´e kapa´as tebes no se mak fiar koko took , bele sai realidade .....hau koko ona maibe sei iha processo nia laran....Abraços!!!!
@zelindojoaolay2640
5 жыл бұрын
Los Duni bro...
Uluk hau sklo iha nb htu maib hau tamat ihanb hau pindah fali mai iha jogja ne
KapaS Tbs ☺👏
Film furak
very good and touching!
@egholabers3586
2 жыл бұрын
Nao pode falar
❤️
nice vision! it's the dream ;) just wait the reality n work hard
@joseximenes6282
7 жыл бұрын
Guido Sarmento Tapi rau
nice one
Video ne'e inspira tebes,,,Forsa Nafatin Kina Moko,,,,Lukun ho Hoponi i Tahini
Film ne fo hanoin tbes ba w nx ann... atu hnxa w bele muda w nx moriss.. thax ba editor nebe alo ona film neee
filem ne gaya losssssssssssss