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Jan 23, 2021 · Eight years ago, Sam Bloom was enjoying a family holiday in Thailand with her husband Cameron and three sons, Rueben, Noah and Oliver. “Cam and I have always loved travelling, so we thought we wanted to take the boys overseas,” the 49-year-old told SBS News at her home in Sydney's northern beaches.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Where are Sam and Cameron Bloom Now? Sam and Cameron continue to live in their home at Newport in New South Wales. Sam’s love for the ocean has made her return to surfing.
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After the accident, Bloom endured seven months of rehabilitation and then returned to her house in Australia. In a 2017 piece for TIME, Bloom described the harrowing experience of being in such a familiar place that suddenly felt wrenchingly unfamiliar. “When viewed from a wheelchair, the once-familiar sanctuary of love and comfort became an alien ...
Three months after Bloom returned home her 11-year-old son, Noah, found the injured baby magpie, which the family named Penguin. The tiny bird had fallen out of its nest and dropped over 60 feet onto an asphalt parking lot, where she would have died had the Bloom family not taken her home. Sam Bloom wrote that caring for Penguin was an undertaking—...
When Naomi Watts read Penguin Bloom, she was so moved by the family’s story that she wanted to adapt it for the screen. She told People: “The images were so compelling, and the story was filled with courage and hope.” The Bloom family was intimately involved in the adaptation—Sam Bloom allowed Watts to read her journals, and the movie was shot in t...
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Dec 28, 2020 · The Penguin Bloom true story reveals that the family hasn't seen their beloved magpie since 2015. Penguin flew away the night before Sam's husband Cameron and their three sons flew to Milan to watch her compete in the Paracanoe World Championships for Australia (she had left three weeks earlier).
Apr 18, 2017 · Sam Bloom, author of Penguin the Magpie, shares the story of her tragic accident, and how a tiny bird helped her regain the will to live.
May 13, 2022 · It was January 2013 and life, as Sam Bloom had known it, was about to change forever. In a split second, a dream holiday in Thailand with her husband, Cameron, and their sons — Rueben, Noah and Oliver — turned into an unimaginable nightmare. Bloom fell through a rotten balcony railing, crashing 6 metres on to concrete below.
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The book and film are based on a true story of Sam and Cameron Bloom's family and their interactions with an Australian magpie named 'Penguin'. It was theatrically released in Australia by Roadshow Films on 21 January 2021 and digitally in the United States by Netflix on 27 January.
