BOFA is proud to partner with CinemaPlus and Amnesty International, Tasmania Branch to bring to Hobart and Launceston Chasing Asylum, the film that the Australian Government did not want you to see.
Special guest at both screenings will be the film’s producer/director Eva Orner.
Academy and Emmy Award winner Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker recently back home after ten years based in Los Angeles and New York.
Her latest film, Chasing Asylum, tackles Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers over the past 15 years, focusing on offshore detention.
The film was shot in Australia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iran and Afghanistan.
Prior to Chasing Asylum Eva wrote, directed and produced the feature documentary The Network, set behind the scenes at the largest and most successful television network in one of the most unstable and dangerous places on earth, Afghanistan.
Eva’s US producing credits include the feature documentaries Taxi To The Dark Side, Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr Hunter S Thompson, The Human Behaviour Experiments and Herbie Hancock’s Possibilities.
Her work has screened at festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and Sydney, Chasing Asylum reveals the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo - with never before seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps.
It explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions hidden from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.
You can meet Eva Orner at an intimate and in depth Q&A after the film.
NOT TO BE MISSED - ONE SCREENING ONLY IN EACH CITY
HOBART - THURSDAY, MAY 12 AT 7PM, PEACOCK THEATRE, SALAMANCA PLACE
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LAUNCESTON - SATURDAY, MAY 14 AT 7PM, UTAS ANNEXE THEATRE, INVERESK.
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Photo: Chasing Asylum Producer/Director Eva Orner will conduct Q & As after the film in Hobart and Launceston