RABBIT-PROOF FENCE

Adventure / Drama / Biographical
Australia, 2002, 94 min.

Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Screenplay: Christine Olsen
Cast: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh, David Gulpilil

Three young Aboriginal girls set out across the Australian Outback when they flee the state facility they were sent to after being forcibly separated from their families. The girls head back home along a fence built by the white settlers to keep out rabbits. But a persistent Aboriginal tracker is on their heels and remains their greatest threat… The film is based on real-life events from the early 1930s. The Aussie & Kiwi Film Fest will present this picture in the year which marks the tenth anniversary of the Australian Government’s National Apology to the Stolen Generations. This name refers to the almost 100,000 Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their parents by governments in the 20th century under policies aimed at assimilation

Festivals and Awards:
Toronto International Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
AFI Awards for Best Australian Film in 2002
Melbourne International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam