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Public Film Screening
We Will Be Remembered for This
Followed by Q & A with writer/producer Monash graduate Jessie Taylor
Date: Monday, 8th October 2007
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: Monash University Cinema, Campus Centre
In 2006, a group of young people of different nationalities, backgrounds, attitudes and political views took a trip to the Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia. The stories of the people they met behind the razor wire surprised, moved and challenged them. We Will Be Remembered For This documents their journey.
It is a film for everyone. It provides a clear, rational and non-politicised look at the human issues of Australia’s mandatory immigration detention policy and poses the essential questions surrounding it. Who are the people behind the fences? How did they come to be there? What are the psychological and legal battles they now face? How much do average Australians know about this policy, and if they knew the truth, would they want it to change?
To create this film, the film-makers drew together a diverse group of people. A teacher, a nurse, a handful of uni students, travellers and an academic - some who had never visited detention, others who had done so for years, and one who had experienced it for himself. Those opposed to the policy, those in support, and those as yet undecided. The film-makers’ objective was almost experimental: to rise above social, cultural and political differences, to draw out common threads upon which all could agree. Produced against a volatile political background, in full awareness that most people feel ill-prepared or unwilling to get involved in the asylum seeker issue, We Will Be Remembered is a tool by which people can become more aware and informed about the current situation.
FREE PUBLIC FILM SCREENING – ALL WELCOME
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