Chasing Asylum: A Filmmaker's Story

✍ Scribed by Orner, Eva

• Book ID: 109199986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781460751930

✦ Synopsis

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. 'My work as a filmmaker has taken me to some wild, dangerous places. I've filmed in Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Cambodia and more. It's been a crazy, peripatetic kind of life, taking me to war zones or desperately poor, chaotic, unstable countries. I've been sick, injured, scared and had too many close calls to mention.I spend a lot of time alone, in airports, lugging camera gear, gazing up at flickering departure boards. But I love it. I love the feeling I get when I am heading into the unknown. All I want to do is tell the important stories.' Personal, gripping and compelling, this memoir documents Australian filmmaker Eva Orner's behind-the-scenes journey making of her Chasing Asylum documentary on Australia's treatment of asylum seekers. Feeling angry and disappointed with Australia's refugee policies...