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Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian epic drama film directed and produced by Phillip Noyce. It was based on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara, an Aboriginal Australian author.
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.
Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an Indigenous Australian family's experiences as members of the Stolen Generation —the forced removal of mixed-race children from their families during the early 20th century.
Jun 29, 2018 · Before they were taken from their homes, Daisy, Molly and Gracie lived in Jigalong, a remote indigenous community that lived semi-nomadically along the rabbit-proof fence —a more than 2,000-mile...
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a movie that captures some of the worst practices committed by white Australians, the one where they plucked mixed-race children from their...
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Aboriginal children of mixed race were taken by force from their mothers and raised in training schools that would prepare them for lives as factory workers or domestic servants. More than a century after slavery was abolished in the Western world, a Western democracy was still practicing racism of the most cruel description.
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.
Sep 6, 2024 · The rabbit-proof fence, originally built to keep rabbits out of farming areas, served as a lifeline for the girls, guiding them through harsh terrain back to their community in Jigalong. This true story of courage and determination highlights the resilience of Aboriginal people in the face of systemic discrimination.
Molly uses the three thousand kilometer (one thousand eight hundred sixty-four mile) long rabbit-proof fence, which runs adjacent to Jigalong to navigate her way home. But Neville and his trackers will not let a bunch of half-caste girls circumvent the law and its associated grand plan.
Rabbit-Proof Fence – whose fictionalised elements are all drawn from the accounts of other members of the stolen generations – undeniably played a role in shifting the national conversation around the stolen generations.
