Dili Film Works is based in Timor Leste (East Timor).   It is Timor Leste’s first film & television production company to receive finance for a feature film, and to have its short films accepted into an international film festival.

Dili Film Work’s mission is to establish a sustainable film & television industry in the fledgling nation.  It is currently in production on East Timor’s first feature film, feature film, A Guerra Da Beatriz.  The film has been sold to SBS Television Australia, The World Movie Channel, and has an Australian DVD distributor.  Dili Film Works will distribute the film in Timor Leste.  The film was honoured to be one of only five films to receive major support from the Global Film Initiative in 2011.

Dili Film Works currently employs over thirty people, is providing on the job training, and is leading East Timor’s struggle to tell its story through film, and to bring it to the people.