Letter to the Editor
Fleeing Aboriginal Girls Follow a Rabbit Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence, a 2002 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce, won a total of 18 awards. It's based on a book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara.

Starting at 8 p.m. on February 22, Hong Kong's Culture Club Gallery will screen this movie. The true story follows the author's mother and two other aboriginal girls who flee the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, after being placed there in 1931. The courageous trio wants to return to their aboriginal families in Jigalong.

The movie follows the girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles of the Australian rabbit-proof fence. Meanwhile, they're chased by a white authority figure and an aboriginal tracker.

Culture Club Gallery
Central, Hong Kong

(February 15, 2011)




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