Through The Wire
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| Producer(s) | Rock Hopper Productions: Pip Starr, Bill Runting, Mark Daniel |
| Director(s) | Pip Starr |
| Release Date | 2002 |
| Runtime | 13 min |
| Language(s) | English |
| Youth Media | no |
Film Description
In March 2002, detainees of Australia's Woomera detention centre staged a mass breakout in a spontaneous and desperate bid for freedom. Aided by hundreds of committed social activists protesting Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in mandatory detention, the breakout captured the attention and interest of human rights groups around the globe. At the frontline of the breakout, filmmaker Pip Starr captures the raw emotion and urgency of the event to create a damning indictment of Australia's inhumane immigration policies. Features interviews with woomera escapees and others who describe the experience of seeking aslylum in a hostile Australia. Watch the film on www.archive.org
| Official Site | www.rhproductions.com |
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| Contact | pip@rhproductions.com.au |
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| Related Issues | Australia/New Zealand/South Pacific, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration Laws, International, Politics/Government |
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| Related Users | PipStarr |
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