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This is the documentary film that Phil Glendenning (the Director of the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education) is involved in.  It was a part of the Sydney Film Festival.

Phil will speak to CCJP about his experiences in making the film.

 “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come”, John Howard’s notorious

2001 election speech summarized his government’s policy on asylum-seekers. Asylum-seekers were held in detention

and if their refugee status was declined, they were often deported.A Well Founded Fear follows Phil Glendenning

from Sydney’s Edmund Rice Centre for Justice as he tracks down several deportees to find out how they are faring. He

talks to an elderly Afghani woman whose son was detained on Nauru for 18 months before being sent back; he went

missing shortly after his return. Detainees returned to Damascus  were arrested and taken to a secret police facility.

There are many such stories in Anne Delaney and Bentley Dean’s hard-hitting, yet intensely moving production JN

(Ref: The Sydney Morning Herald lift-out Guide to the 55th Sydney Film Festival)

Photos from Sunday 18 May Seminar