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25.01.2022 We made The Guardians Top 10 Australian Films of the Year. "To have this long and politically twisted story threaded together in a such a way coherent, cogent, powerful is a vital yet heart-wrenching experience."

25.01.2022 Theres plenty more to be outraged about than a website going down.

24.01.2022 Hey everyone in Oz Chasing Asylum is now available on STAN so if you havent seen it...no excuses!

23.01.2022 Chasing Asylum is now available to rent or own via iTunes in 69 countries. #worldrefugeeday #manus #nauru #refugees

23.01.2022 Steven Glass and I discuss the Australian Governments Manus settlement in todays SMH and Age http://www.smh.com.au//manus-payout-government-has-avoided

23.01.2022 Here is my AACTA acceptance speech from last nite for Chasing Asylum- best feature documentary. Its a bit rough, filmed by an audience member but please take a look and share. Thank you everyone for your support!

23.01.2022 David Marr, on the devastating #NauruFiles: "Nauru is Australias work. We own this despair. These thousands of reports from within the refugee prison that have... come to Guardian Australia reek of misery [..] These are the Panama papers of Australias refugee gulag. Here is the raw evidence of torture deliberately inflicted." See more

22.01.2022 Editorial by Eva and Steven Glass in todays Fairfax papers.

22.01.2022 Thrilled to announce Chasing Asylum will have its European premier in competition at the British Film Institutes London Film Festival in October!

21.01.2022 UK friends if you missed Chasing Asylum at BFI London Film Festival and on BBC Storyville its now availaable on iTunes!

20.01.2022 For those in Melbourne on Saturday there will be a rally to #CloseTheCamps and #BringThemHere at the State Library.

20.01.2022 An exposé of Australia’s offshore detention policies through the personal accounts of asylum-seekers and whistle-blowers who worked in the system. Watch Chasing Asylum, an award-winning documentary by Eva Orner at 20:00 GMT on Al Jazeera English.

20.01.2022 The film the Australian government doesnt want you to see is now available on DVD & Digital. Winner of Best Documentary Feature Film at the AACTA Awards, Chasing Asylum is "one of the most important documentaries ever made in this country" - Leigh Paatsch, The Herald Sun. Get your copy today - http://mad.mn/chasingasylumjb and please help us spread the word.

19.01.2022 When a child asks, "Why doesnt Australia like us? What have we done? ... To explain that to a five-year-old is just impossible". From former Nauru teachers, this is harrowing to watch.

18.01.2022 Many international network sales for CHASING ASYLUM coming out of MIPCOM16, including BBC Storyville, Swedens SVT, Denmarks DR, Switzerlands RTS, Japans NHK, HBO Europe, Israels Channel 8 and Finlands YLE.

14.01.2022 An expos of Australias offshore detention policies through the personal accounts of asylum-seekers and whistle-blowers who worked in the system. Watch Chasing Asylum, an award-winning documentary by Eva Orner at 20:00 GMT on Al Jazeera English.

14.01.2022 "A viscerally intense expos of Australias asylum seeker policy." The Guardian "One of the most important documentaries ever made in this country." Herald Sun... CHASING ASYLUM: The film the Australian government doesnt want you to see. Watch now exclusively on iTunes Australia. Out on DVD and other platforms from 12 December.

13.01.2022 CHASING ASYLUM is screening tonight at Parliament House, and everyone who works in the building is invited - that includes our MPs! Hope they dont miss this opportunity to see whats going on in the camps theyve set up.

11.01.2022 #BREAKING: An unprecedented 103 current and former staff from the Nauru and Manus Island offshore immigration detention centres have today risked prosecution by... signing an open letter, warning that the only way to secure the safety of refugees and asylum seekers in offshore detention is to bring them to Australia immediately. See more

11.01.2022 Since Guardian Australia published the #naurufiles this week a cache of more than 2,000 leaked documents from inside the Nauru detention system many readers have asked what they can do to help.

11.01.2022 Parliament House screening underway! Introduced by Eva and Senator Hanson-Young.

10.01.2022 Corinne Grant let rip on Q&A last night: "The government is hoodwinking you. They do not want you to know what is happening in these centres because, if you did, if you genuinely knew what was happening to these people, no one in Australia would allow it to continue to happen."

10.01.2022 New Zealand! If you missed us at the NZ International Film Festival, were out today on DVD and iTunes please share and tell your friends in NZ!

09.01.2022 Chasing Asylum wins Vaclav Havel Prize at One World Human rights film festival in Prague @ChasingAsylum

08.01.2022 Nauru may have kept the Danish delegation from entering our offshore detention camps, but all of Denmark will get a chance to see inside when CHASING ASYLUM airs on DR2 this Thursday at 9.30PM.

08.01.2022 Chasing Asylum film screening at Parliament House in Canberra with Q&A with the films director Eva Orner.

08.01.2022 Hey Toronto friends and friends with friends in Toronto. A wonderful Hazara refugee and her 2 children - who are in Chasing Asylum -have just arrived in Canada as refugees. They will be arriving in Toronto tomorrow and need accommodation for perhaps a week until they find a place. If anyone can help, has a spare room, knows someone who might want to help, knows any organizations who can help please message me or reply here and I can contact you. Thx xx e

07.01.2022 More positive noises to #BringThemHere from Premier Colin Barnett in WA. Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has made similar comments in the past. Put some pressure on your state Premiers by contacting them: VIC: [email protected] NSW: http://bit.ly/1t5RGeM... ACT: [email protected] SA: http://bit.ly/2be3Tih NT: http://bit.ly/2b5CmxN TAS: http://bit.ly/2bjMOkd QLD: http://bit.ly/1FUzSLz And dont forget, one of the most important ways you can make your voice heard is to contact your local MPs: http://www.aph.gov.au//guidelines_for_contacting_senators_

07.01.2022 Eva Orner projected Chasing Asylum on the front of Australia House in London last night

07.01.2022 A reminder from Eva that this is far from over: "People - the announcement of the closing of Manus Detention Centre is nothing new. The Supreme Court of PNG ruled the detention centre illegal months ago and told the Oz govt it had to be closed. This announcement diverts attention away from the recent Nauru leaks. They will either have to resettle in PNG which is a failure, go home or be sent to another country. And what of the men, women and children on Nauru?"

06.01.2022 Another editorial in The Age exhorting our leaders to step up - the footage in CHASING ASYLUM should be more than enough to want to put a stop to this.

06.01.2022 UK friends if you missed Chasing Asylum at BFI London Film Festival and on BBC Storyville it's now availaable on iTunes!

06.01.2022 After a massive 16 weeks, CHASING ASYLUM is nearing the end of its run at Cinema Nova. If youve not had a chance yet to see it in the cinema, come along before its too late!

05.01.2022 Calling all Australian teachers and your teacher friends. You are now able to bring STORIES OF CHASING ASYLUM to your classroom. Teachers and librarians can stream the film from Kanopy (https://www.kanopystreaming.com/product/chasing-asylum) or purchase a DVD copy from The Education Shop (http://theeducationshop.com.au//dvds-and-b/chasing-asylum/)... If your school is a ClickView AU/NZ subscriber, you can also access the film via their platform. Thanks to our friends at Cool Australia, amazing teaching ressources are available for Year 10 English students. Two more units are on their way, a Year 11 English unit and a Year 10 History unit.

05.01.2022 CHASING ASYLUM wins a best Feature Length Documentary at the AACTAs!

04.01.2022 Director Eva Orners thoughts on the Nauru files in VICE.

02.01.2022 From Blade Runner to Chasing Asylum: the best of Australias streaming in January https://www.theguardian.com//from-blade-runner-to-chasing-

02.01.2022 UK - tune in TONIGHT! Chasing Asylum screens on BBC Four at 9pm as part of BBC Storyville