Inside Film describes the series as 'a six-part drama about four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert'.
Source: https://www.if.com.au/cate-blanchett-co-creates-and-stars-in-refugee-drama-stateless (Sighted: 17/05/2019).
From Inside Film magazine:
When the project received development funding from Screen Australia in 2015, Blanchett was attached as the director. As the production developed in scale and ambition she and the producers agreed it made sense to hire experienced directors.
[...]
The concept is based on an original idea by Blanchett. She discussed it with McCredie who suggested they involve Ayres, who had directed the 2009 SBS telemovie Saved, which starred Claudia Karvan as the advocate for a young Iranian refugee (Osamah Sami) held in detention. Chayko scripted that film in which McCredie played a supporting role.
[...]
He and Blanchett pitched the show to the ABC several years ago and it took a while to figure out how to tell the story, develop the scripts and assemble the cast.
Source: https://www.if.com.au/cate-blanchett-co-creates-and-stars-in-refugee-drama-stateless (Sighted: 17/05/2019)
The Circumstances in Which They Come
Australia
:
Matchbox Pictures
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2020
20826170
2020
single work
film/TV
Australia
:
Matchbox Pictures
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2020
Panis Angelicus
Australia
:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Matchbox Pictures
,
2020
20269100
2020
single work
film/TV
Australia
:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Matchbox Pictures
,
2020
The Seventh Circle
Australia
:
Matchbox Pictures
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2020
20826206
2020
single work
film/TV
Australia
:
Matchbox Pictures
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
,
2020
'Fifteen years ago, a deeply troubled German-born Australian resident was transferred out of the Baxter detention centre in South Australia's north and taken to hospital, and then a psychiatric facility in Adelaide.'
'Blanchett’s star-powered TV series Stateless explores the repercussions of immigration detention. ‘None of us are interested in preaching to the converted,’ she says.'
'There's a big new show coming to ABC TV with a star-studded cast. It's called Stateless and it's backed by one of the biggest Australian names: Cate Blanchett.' (Introduction)
'Fifteen years ago, a deeply troubled German-born Australian resident was transferred out of the Baxter detention centre in South Australia's north and taken to hospital, and then a psychiatric facility in Adelaide.'
