Home

Film on Timor Leste-Cuba medical cooperation program

 The Doctors of Tomorrow with Tim Anderson
"A documentary on the Timor Leste-Cuba health cooperation"
See interviews with some of the 850 East Timorese students studying medicine with the Cubans, in the biggest medical college on earth. From 2010 onwards these young people will begin to take control of their country’s health system.

38 minutes
Filmed in Timor Leste and Cuba
Produced by Tim Anderson, 2008

UPCOMING FILM SHOWINGS IN AUSTRALIA:
Katoomba: Monday, July 28, 7.30pm. Tris Elies Night Club (next to Katoomba Station). &6/$10 solidarity. Followed by discussion with Tim Anderson. More info: 02-4787 7859 or 0428 826 347.
Canberra: Monday August 4, 6.30pm, Theatre 6, Manning Clark Theatre, ANU. Followed by discussion with Tim Anderson.
Sydney:Saturday August 9, 2pm, Resistance Activist Centre, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale. Discussion with Tim Anderson and launch of Chris Slee's Cuba: How The Workers & Peasants Made The Revolution. Organised by Democratic Socialist Perspective & Resistance. Info: 02 9690 1977.
Brisbane: Part of Latin American Film Festival - Friday August 15, 6.30pm: DOCTORS OF TOMORROW - How Cuba has supported East Timor, with special guest filmmaker Tim Anderson. Other components: Thurs: COCALERO - How Evo Morales became Bolivia's first Indigenous president; Sat: ROMERO - Feature film on El Salvador's liberation Archbishop followed by post-festival fiesta. Delicious Latino food and drinks avail each night. Tickets $45/30 incl all films/meals/drink or $10/6 per film. Brisbane Activist Centre, 74b Wickham St, Fortitude Valley. Ph 3831 2644 / 0410 629 088.

Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP), formerly ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor), is a network of solidarity activists campaigning for democratic rights, self-determination and other justice struggles in the Asia Pacific region.
ASAP's People's Power Fighting Fund runs appeals for material support for various democratic struggles in the region. To donate to this fund and to help maintain this website, you can deposit directly into the Commonwealth Bank Australia BSB 062026 Account number 1006 0743. Thank-you. Your help is appreciated.