Author Drew Cottle

Drew Cottle

Drew Cottle is a senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Western Sydney. He has an abiding interest in the worldwide struggle of workers and liberation movements. His most recent book is The Brisbane Line: A Reappraisal.

article placeholder

From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the Making of Indonesia Calling

Drew Cottle and Angela Keys

November 2006

Film & History Conference Papers

Appointed Film Commissioner of The Netherlands East Indies on 28 September 1944, in September and October of the following year Joris Ivens directed Indonesia Calling (1946), a film which was anathema to Du...