Rabbit-Proof Fence: the screenplay
the screenplay
Published on 1. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
106 pages
978-0-86819-655-8 (ISBN)
Description
Three Aboriginal girls are forcibly removed from their outback families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of official government policy. They escape and begin a 1500-mile journey home using a rabbit-proof fence as their guide, with the authorities chasing them all the way.
Winner of a NSW Premier's Award for Script Writing and a Community Relations Commission Award, the screenplay is adapted from Doris Pilkington Garimara's book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which is based on her mother's true story.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Paddington
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
199 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86819-655-8 (9780868196558)
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CHRISTINE OLSEN was born and educated in New Zealand. She worked as a radio producer for Radio Television Hong Kong until 1985, when she moved to Australia and began working in documentary film. Her production credits include the three-part television series Riding the Tiger and Hephzibah, which won two AFI awards including Best Documentary and the Silver Wolf Award for Best Documentary in Amsterdam. Rabbit-Proof Fence, which she wrote and produced, was her first feature script.