{"product_id":"9781460751930_chasing-asylum","title":"Chasing Asylum","description":"Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia's asylum seeker policies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o \/?\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eMy work as a filmmaker has taken me to some wild, dangerous places … It's been a crazy, nomadic kind of life, taking me to conflict zones and desperately poor, chaotic, unstable countries. I've been sick, injured, scared and had too many close calls to mention. I spend a lot of time alone, in airports, lugging camera gear, gazing up at flickering departure boards.' But I love it. I love the feeling I get when I am heading into the unknown.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eAngry and frustrated with Australia's asylum seeker and refugee policies, Eva Orner, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, returned home after a decade living in the States to make the documentary \u003ci\u003eChasing Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e about the issue. Embarking on a tumultuous eighteen months, Eva travelled to Indonesia, Cambodia, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iran, spending time with and filming asylum seekers, as well as interviewing politicians, activists and commentators including David Marr and Malcolm Fraser. She smuggled a pen camera into an Indonesian jail to interview a convicted people smuggler, she talked to whistle blowers in Australia, and in Iran she met with the family of the man killed in the Manus Island riot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eChasing Asylum \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling insight into a filmmaker's journey, and a very personal story of the cost, risks and rewards of putting yourself on the line for a film and for a cause.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/em\u003ewrites of the film \u003cem\u003eChasing Asylum\u003c\/em\u003e: 'The full, muscular weight of the feature documentary format has finally tackled the subject with \u003cem\u003eChasing Asylum\u003c\/em\u003e, a viscerally intense expose given gravitas by Academy and Emmy award-winning film-maker Eva Orner ...  not just successful, but awfully and unforgettably effective: vital, evocative and gut-wrenching.'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e'Eva Orner is no stranger to bravery ... she manifests this steadfastness in relating story after story where pain, violence and horror frame her narrative, interspersed by accounts of the daily life of a filmmaker ... Orner is \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003ebrave not just emotionally, but also physically, risking imprisonment, illness and violence to uncover the stories of those who have sought refuge ... It is a story that must be told.' \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Orner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896445128853,"sku":"9781460751930","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460751930_5825fea0-2e14-4f47-a0bd-372a25032c8d.jpg?v=1776888412","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460751930_chasing-asylum","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}