141 Nicholson Ave Whyalla North
$16.00 AUD Admission = $16.00
A Finalist at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival, ‘Freedom Stories’* releases in cinemas across Australia & New Zealand through Cinema of Demand Platform FanForce!
Compassion & Justice for Refugees brings you this special screening on Friday 2nd September at 7.00pm at Whyalla Cinemas SA!
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*Please note by purchasing a ticket you agree to be contacted by the filmmakers with ongoing news and developments relating to ‘Freedom Stories’.
[/yt-video]Freedom Stories is an exploration by filmmaker Steve Thomas of the achievements and struggles of former ‘boat people’. Now Australian citzens, they arrived seeking asylum from the Middle-East around 2001 – a watershed year in Australian politics sparked by the Tampa affair and Prime Minister John Howard’s declaration: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. Some were only children when they found themselves in indefinite mandatory detention in remote places such as Woomera or Nauru and then placed on temporary protection visas, which extended their limbo for years. It has taken astonishing resilience and over a decade for them to build secure lives and start contributing to their new country. These are ordinary people who found themselves caught up in the extraordinary consequences of political brinkmanship but have long since dropped out of the media spotlight. They live among us now and given the Government’s boast that it has ‘stopped the boats’ it is time for their voices to be heard.
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