Saroo Brierley Saroo Brierley i(A152464 works by)
Born: Established: 1981
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

'Saroo Brierley was born in an Indian town called Khandwa. In 1986, aged only 5, he lost all contact with his family when he was at a train station waiting for his brother who never returned.

'After living on the streets of Calcutta for 3 weeks by himself, he then got placed into a local orphanage where an Australian family adopted Saroo.

'Saroo then grew up with his newly adopted parents in Hobart, Tasmania where he spent the next 25 years. After years of trying to track down his old town through the labyrinth of railway lines on Google Earth and an image etched into his brain as a 5 year old, he finally found his town Khandwa on the map and travelled to India to try and find members of his family.

'In early 2012, after 25 years of separation, he reunited with his mother.' (Source: http://www.sunstarentertainment.com.au/saroo.html)

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form y separately published work icon Lion ( dir. Garth Davis ) Australia : Screen Australia See Saw Films Sunstar Entertainment The Weinstein Company , 2016 8160821 2016 single work film/TV

'A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 later, he sets out to find his lost family.' (Production summary)
2018 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
2018 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Screenplay
2018 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
2017 winner AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Adaptation
2017 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Screenplay - Original or Adapted
2017 winner Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Director
2017 winner Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Film
2017 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Adapted Screenplay
2017 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Film
2017 shortlisted Academy Awards — Best Adapted Screenplay
2017 shortlisted Academy Awards — Best Picture
y separately published work icon A Long Way Home Lion : A Long Way Home Melbourne : Viking , 2013 6153454 2013 single work autobiography

'When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines.

'Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia.

'Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognised. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for.

'Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.

'A Long Way Home is a moving and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit – hope.' (Publisher's blurb)
2014 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Biography of the Year
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