"Stop The Boats" Screening & ASRC Fundraiser

Join us for a screening of the documentary Stop The Boats
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Entry is donation based – no one turned away

Suggested Donations:
$15 Unwaged
$25 Waged
$35 Solidarity

Tea & Coffee by donation

All profit will go to The Asylum Seeker Research Centre https://asrc.org.au/-  Australia’s largest human rights non-for-profit organisation providing support to people seeking asylum, champion their rights and mobilise a community of compassion to create lasting social and policy change.
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Stop the Boats tells the story of how Australia used a three-word slogan to demonise people seeking asylum after fleeing war and persecution, condemning them to indefinite offshore detention and torture in prison camps on Manus and Nauru.

The stories are told by asylum seekers including children from within detention centres, secretly filmed on mobile phones and smuggled out from Nauru and Manus Island on USBs, few shots at a time. This is set against interviews with whistle-blower detention centre workers.

Featured in the film is Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer who spent 6 years in detention on manus island.

There will be a pre-recorded Q&A with director Simon Kurian followed by a Panel Discussion.
1:00 pm Doors Open
1:30 Screening
3:00 Break
3:15 Pre-Recorded Q&A with Director Simon Kurian
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TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING
Detention Centres, Suicide, Sexual Violence, Child Abuse, Neglect, Torture
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This event takes place on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sovereignty has never been ceded and Australia is a crime scene. We pay our respects and stand in solidarity with First Nations people in their resistance to the ongoing violence of settler-colonialism and the carceral state.
Always was. Always will be. Aboriginal Land.
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Can’t make the event but wish to support?
Donate
https://donate.asrc.org.au/donate
https://documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/stop-the-boats/