A Well-Founded Fear
- Country
- Australia
- Year
- 2008
- Director
- Anne Delaney & Bentley Dean
- Producer
- Anne Delaney
Line Producer Carolyn Johnson
Associate Producer Tracey Savage - Finance
- Principle funder – Film Finance Corporation Australia
Broadcaster - SBS TV
Development funding – Australian Film Commission, NSW Film & Television Office, Shark Island Documentary Fund
Private funding – Stephen Mori Gallery, GetUP - Budget
- $330,000
- Length
- 52 minutes
- Website
- awellfoundedfear.com.au
Synopsis
The Australian Government sends back asylum seekers it doesn't think are refugees. International law says people shouldn't be sent to unsafe locations. But the Australian Government never finds out what happens to the asylum seekers they don't want. So Phil Glendenning and the Edmund Rice Centre have made it their mission. A Well-Founded Fear is the moving story of Glendenning's search for the asylum seekers Australia rejected as he travels through Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Canada.
Impact
• ATOM Study guide in development.
• Local and international festival screenings with Q&A sessions 2008/9.
• SBS Television screening late 2008.
• Edmund Rice Centre presentation to Australian Government and United Nations 2008.
• Conference screenings (eg. Aus/NZ Association of Psychiatry and the Law, Sydney Centre for International Law, etc)
• Website presence