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Eva Orner is an Australian Academy and Emmy Award-winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles.
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Chasing Asylum is a 2016 documentary film directed and produced by Eva Orner. It examines Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.
- Corey Baudinette, Khadim Dai, David Bacon, Michael Downey
- Eva Orner, Annabelle Johnson (co-producer)
- Annabelle Johnson
- Eva Orner
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- Censorship Allegations and Legal Disputes
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Taxi to the Dark Side examines US policy on torture and interrogation, specifically the CIA's use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation. The film includes discussions against the use of torture by political and military opponents, as well as the defense of such methods; attempts by Congress to uphold the standards of the Geneva Con...
The documentary concerns the death of Dilawar, an Afghan peanut farmer, who gave up farming to become a taxi driver and who died after several days of beating at Bagram detention center. Dilawar left his home of Yakubi in eastern Afghanistan in the autumn of 2002, investing his family money in a new taxi to make money in a larger city. On 1 Decembe...
Taxi to the Dark Side appeared on some critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Premiere magazine named it the fifth best film of 2008, and Bill White of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer named it the seventh-best film of 2008. The film also scored 100% for critic approval, out of 93 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with a weighted average of 8.34...
The film was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of 15 films on its documentary feature Oscar shortlist in November 2007, and won the Oscar on February 24, 2008. In his acceptance speech for the "Best Documentary Feature" Academy Award, Gibney said: It also won a Peabody Award in 2007 "for its sober, meticulous argument ...
In June 2007, the Discovery Channel bought the rights to broadcast Taxi to the Dark Side. However, in February 2008, it made public its intention never to broadcast the documentary due to its "controversial" nature and was accused of "censorship". HBO then bought pay to view rights to the film and broadcast it in September 2008, after which the Dis...
Varietyreview by Jay WeissbergInterview with Taxi to the Dark Side director Alex Gibney at Filmmaker MagazineAcademy and Emmy Award winner Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her credits include Chasing Asylum, which she directed and produced. The film tackles Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers over the past 15 years, focusing on offshore detention.
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BIOGRAFIA. Eva Orner è una regista australiana, residente a Los Angeles, vincitrice di un Oscar e di due Emmy Award. Il suo ultimo film Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion uscirà su HBO nel 2024 dopo essere stato presentato in anteprima al festival SXSW.
21 ott 2019 · A ustralia’s current refugee policy has been informed by a succession of prime ministers, and four of them have a part to play in the development of Chasing Asylum: a stunning new documentary...
Eva Orner is an Australian Academy and Emmy Award-winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles. Her works include Untold Desires, Strange Fits of Passion, Taxi to the Dark Side, and Gonzo, The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
