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Letters to Ali
( dir. Clara Law
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Australia
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Madman Cinema
,
2004
Z1573017
2004
single work
film/TV
(taught in 2 units)
An 'average' Australian family decides to help in a small way by writing to Ali, a fifteen-year-old Afghan boy detained at Port Hedland, unaccompanied by any relatives. This letter would prove to be the catalyst for a three-year on-going battle with Australian authorities to get Ali, then a minor, out of detention. Filmmakers Clara Law and Eddie Fong contacted Trish in September 2002 after reading the newspaper story and decided to make a film about Ali's case.
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The Empty Space in Letters to Ali (Clara Law, 2004)
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