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Letters to Ali

'Average' Australian family decides to help in a small way by writing to Ali - a 15 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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  • "'Average' Australian family decides to help in a small way by writing to Ali - a 15 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."@en
  • "A long journey to discover the other side of Australia. Clara Law's LETTERS TO ALI is at once a personal, a humanistic and a political film that echoes Australia's growing public concern over the treatment of refugees, especially children, in Australian detention centres. The documentary chronicles one exceptional "average" Australian family the Kerbi/Silbersteins, who decide to help on a small level by writing to Ali - a 15 year-old Afghan boy detained at Port Hedland and 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. Hong Kong-born/Melbourne-based Clara Law and her husband, filmmaker Eddie Fong, felt a similar urge to contribute to the debate after noticing a newspaper story about Ali written by Trish Kerbi in September 2002. Clara, who is well-known as a feature filmmaker (Floating Life, Autumn Moon, The Goddess Of 1967), and Eddie contacted Trish and they decided to make a film about Ali's case. Clara and Eddie's personal journey parallels that of Trish and her family as they all travel from Victoria across Australia to Port Hedland in Western Australia to visit Ali, and take up his case for a visa.--Kanopy."
  • "Some Facts: --Australia is the only Western country that has a system of mandatory detention of asylum seekers including children, that also severely limits the capacity of detainees to obtain proper judicial review of their detention. --In August 2001, children made up 23.4% of all detainees. --As at 11 Feb 2004, at least 174 children were locked up in detention centres in Australia. Some children have been imprisoned for years. Children in detention have been found with lip sewing, slashing, ingestion of shampoo, attempted hanging and threats of self-hurt. Some suffer from bed-wetting, nightmares, depression and separation anxiety. Some are overly withdrawn, while others are overly familiar with strangers. Many exhibit impaired linguistic and cognitive development. --All the detention centres have been declared off-limits to journalists. --All staff employed in the detention centre -including professionals like nurses, doctors and psychologists - are required to sign secrecy clauses and banned from speaking publicly about conditions inside.--Kanopy."
  • "An 'average' Australian family decides to help in a small way by writing to Ali - a 15 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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