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The Resource I'll call Australia home, (videorecording)

I'll call Australia home, (videorecording)

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Every year millions of refugees escape civil war and human rights violations in search of a new homeland. Roughly 13,000 are accepted into Australia. But what happens once they arrive? This intimate documentary, filmed with the cooperation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Australian government's resettlement agencies, looks at two refugee families who escaped civil war and violence in their homeland, hoping for a fresh start on safer shores. For the ethnic Karen family from Burma, so many things are startling - suburbs that seem to be for cars not people, too many clothes to choose from, automatic teller machines, and chickens wrapped in plastic. But learning English in 510 hours of government paid lessons is proving the biggest challenge. Constance Okat and her extended family came to Australia after fleeing civil war in Sudan. For Constance, the task is trying to reunite all the members of her family that have been separated for over ten years. She is also trying to challenge the notion that refugees do not assimilate in Australian society
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 videodisc (60 min.)
Note
  • Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast September 9, 2008. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act
  • "Film Australia in association with Becker Entertainment presents"--On screen
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Label
I'll call Australia home
Title
I'll call Australia home
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Every year millions of refugees escape civil war and human rights violations in search of a new homeland. Roughly 13,000 are accepted into Australia. But what happens once they arrive? This intimate documentary, filmed with the cooperation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Australian government's resettlement agencies, looks at two refugee families who escaped civil war and violence in their homeland, hoping for a fresh start on safer shores. For the ethnic Karen family from Burma, so many things are startling - suburbs that seem to be for cars not people, too many clothes to choose from, automatic teller machines, and chickens wrapped in plastic. But learning English in 510 hours of government paid lessons is proving the biggest challenge. Constance Okat and her extended family came to Australia after fleeing civil war in Sudan. For Constance, the task is trying to reunite all the members of her family that have been separated for over ten years. She is also trying to challenge the notion that refugees do not assimilate in Australian society
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VDU
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director, Belinda Mason ; producer, Mike Bluett
Dewey number
325.210994
Language note
In English, Burmese and Acholi with English subtitles
PerformerNote
Narrator, Tara Morice
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Mason, Belinda
  • Bluett, Mike
  • Morice, Tara
Runtime
60
Series statement
Cutting edge
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  • Refugees
  • Immigrants
  • Sudanese
  • Karen (Southeast Asian people)
  • Asian Australians
  • Australia
Technique
live action
Label
I'll call Australia home, (videorecording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast September 9, 2008. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act
  • "Film Australia in association with Becker Entertainment presents"--On screen
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 videodisc (60 min.)
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
sd., col.
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) a499629
Video recording format
DVD
Label
I'll call Australia home, (videorecording)
Publication
Note
  • Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast September 9, 2008. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act
  • "Film Australia in association with Becker Entertainment presents"--On screen
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 videodisc (60 min.)
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
sd., col.
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) a499629
Video recording format
DVD

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