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Jan 31, 2003 · Rabbit-Proof Fence: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil. In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
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- Biography, Drama
- Phillip Noyce
- 2003-01-31
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama (directed by Phillip Noyce) film based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It concerns the author's mother, and two other young mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, in order to return to their Aboriginal ...
Phillip Noyce's film is fiction based on fact. The screenplay by Christine Olsen is based on a book by Doris Pilkington, telling the story of the experiences of her mother, Molly, her aunt Daisy and their cousin Gracie.
Nov 29, 2002 · Tells the true story of three aboriginal girls who are forcibly taken from their families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an official Australian government policy.
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- Phillip Noyce
- PG
- Everlyn Sampi
- ‘We Were Stunned; We’D Never Heard The Story’
- ‘Two Thousand Kids Were Interviewed’
- ‘After The Movie I Didn’T Want to Do Any More Acting’
- ‘They Were Queens For A Night’
Maria Pilkington, daughter of the late author Doris Pilkington Garimara: “One day all the women were sitting around a fire having a yarn, as we always do when we go back to Jigalong, when Nanna Daisy said to Molly: ‘Tell Doris about the time we walked home from Moore River.’ We were stunned; we’d never heard the story. When Doris got back to Perth ...
Noyce: “The biggest hurdle was finding our three stars. I didn’t want actors, even if I could find them. I was looking for three children with distinct personalities –the rebel, the clown, the dreamer – who we would encourage and capture. The three-month search took us across Australia. Two thousand kids were interviewed. I personally saw probably ...
Everlyn Sampi: “The hardest part of making the movie was doing the same scene over and over. It was exhausting. And everybody was talking at me the whole time. Telling me where to go and what to do. It gave me a headache! After the movie I didn’t want to do any more acting. I had enough. But now I think I would like to do another movie. It was a gr...
Pilkington:They screened the movie in Jigalong and it was an amazing experience. Molly and her sister Daisy were sitting in the middle surrounded by all their children and their grandchildren. They were queens for a night. They didn’t always recognise themselves in the story. “That wasn’t us!” they yelled. But Mum had explained what was involved in...
Rabbit-Proof Fence. At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, three girls escape their internment camp and embark on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure back home. 2,735 IMDb 7.4 1 h 33 min 2003. X-Ray PG.
After being swept up in an an integration program for Indigenous Australians, three girls vow to escape an abusive orphanage and return home. Watch trailers & learn more.
