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New Orleans Film Society

Rabbit-Proof Fence

AUSTRALIA 94 min.

Director
Phillip Noyce
Writer
Doris Pilkington (novel), Christine Olsen (screenplay)
Producer
David Elfick, Kathleen McLaughlin, Jeremy Thomas
Cinematographer
Christopher Doyle
Editor
Veronika Jenet, John Scott
Cast
Ningali Lawford, David Gulpilil, Jason Clarke, Deborah Mailman, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis

Set in Australia in 1931, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the story of a government policy that required “half-caste” children (whose mothers were Aboriginal and whose fathers were white) to be taken from their homes by the authorities to be trained to work as servants. Based on the true story of Molly Craig,

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