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| Sentences |
Sentences
Sascha Ettinger-Epstein, Australia, 17mins, 2005, Digital Betacam. Courtesy: Australian Film Television and Radio School
Welcome to the inner realm of Long Bay, New South Wales' most notorious lock up.
Here there are no guards - only paint, brushes, raw materials and reawakened imaginations.
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| Iraq, My Country: An Exile's Return to Samawa |
Iraq, My Country: An Exile's Return to Samawa
Hadi Mahood, Australia, 52 mins, 2005, Digital Betacam. Courtesy: Film Camp
In 1991 Hadi Mahood fled persecution in Iraq and arrived in Australia. Now he is returning to his hometown of Samawa to record an insider's perspective on life in Iraq post-Saddam.
Samawa is a city left in a power vacuum, caught between a new imposed democratic structure and fundamentalist Islamic forces.
Far from the usual media spin on life in Iraq this production is an intimate and personal view of a nation on the cusp of dramatic change.
Apologies, Q&A with producer Philippa Campey has been cancelled.
