Eva Orner’s filmmaking career has taken her to the some remote parts of the world, but the Australian Oscar-winner’s next project will bring her home to work for the first time in a decade.
She plans to use her mix of insider knowledge and outsider perspective to make a feature documentary called Bloody UnAustralian, a critical look at Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers.
The title comes from her memories of growing up in Melbourne in the 1970s, she says. “When people did something that wasn’t decent, you’d be like, ‘That’s bloody unAustralian’. It was a nice, old-fashioned part of vernacular that applies to this, which is something that has become very Australian
