ISBN: | 9781460751930 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Published: | 1 April, 2016 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia's asylum seeker policies. Eva Orner is an Emmy and Academy award-winning Australian film maker. After living away from Australia for over a decade, she returned to make a documentary about Australia's refugee policies and practices, and the consequent suffering this has caused. This is a compelling, behind-the-scenes, very personal account of a filmmaker's story. Filming in Indonesia, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iran and Afghanistan, as well as across Australia, Eva has spoken to everyone from asylum seekers to politicians, from activists to commentators, From David Marr to one of the last interviews with Malcolm Fraser, from returned refugees in Iran, to would-be refugees in Afghanistan. She smuggled a pen camera into an Indonesian jail to interview a convicted people smuggler, she interviewed whistleblowers in Australia, and in Iran she spoke to the family of a man who was killed in the Manus Island riots. Featuring many heartbreaking dispatches from the field, including Eva's experiences in Indonesia - where we have 'stopped the boats' but the result is tens of thousands of stranded asylum seekers - she relates refugees' stories of courage, tragedy and resilience. Eva also has great courage - travelling and filming in dangerous places like Afghanistan and Iran, where if she'd been caught filming, she could have been hanged. CHASING ASYLUM is a very personal story of the cost and rewards and risks of putting yourself on the line for a film and for a cause - and also a provocative, challenging look at an issue which should outrage us all.
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