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Andrew Pike at Ronin Films has announced Sean Gilligan’s feature-length documentary Fantome Island has won the Best Australian Documentary Award in the 2012 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival.
Fantome Island tells of a leper colony off the northeast coast of Townsville in North Queensland run exclusively for Indigenous Australians from 1940 to 1973. One of the few surviving patients, Joe Eggmolesse returns to the leprosarium where in 1945, at the age of seven, he was sent for what became a decade-long stay.
The film is available now on DVD from Ronin Films, with educational pricing and ordering details on their website.
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Eddie Cockrell
Eddie Cockrell is a film critic, feature writer and consulting programmer. His reviews, profiles and columns have appeared in The Australian, Variety,...
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