Claim: Balibo (film) takes place in Hawaii.
Evidence: The film follows dishevelled journalist Roger East , played by Anthony LaPaglia , who travels to East Timor in 1975 to investigate the deaths of the Balibo Five during the buildup to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
East Timor -LRB- -LSB- iːst_ˈtiːmɔr -RSB- -RRB- or Timor-Leste -LRB- -LSB- tiˈmɔr_ˈlɛʃteɪ -RSB- Tetum : Timór Lorosa'e -RRB- , officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste -LRB- República Democrática de Timor-Leste , Repúblika Demokrátika Timór-Leste -RRB- , is a sovereign state in Maritime Southeast Asia.