Biography / filmography

In 2001 Peter Marra made Emails from East Timor (later acquired and broadcast on Maori Television) and screened at the New Zealand International film festivals 2002 and the historic East Timor Human Rights Film Festival 2002

In 2003 he co organised Docomania [Pacific Rim Storeys] showcasing rare and quality documentaries from around the Pacific Rim with an environmental, human rights theme in New Zealand.

He made a short documentary called Happy Birthday Timor Leste in collaboration with photographers and filmmakers around the globe broadcast on a New York cable station on Boxing Day 2004.

He co founded Giving Voice Trust to attract funding for his next project from a diverse range of funding sources.

As in 2005 he began a collaboration with the Centro Audio Visual Max Stahl Timor Leste to document important developments the life of a child in the worlds newest and Asia s poorest nation A child he had started documenting as a 3 week old baby in 2001. Later returning in 2006 to find out what happened to the family and the child's school after and during tumultuous events as seen in Children of a Nation.