Gabrielle Brady
Gabrielle Brady is an Australian filmmaker. She makes documentary and hybrid films. She studied filmmaking at the International Film School of Cuba (EICTV), where she lived and made films for three years. She has lived nomadically for the past ten years, traveling between Cuba, Mongolia, Indonesia, the central Australian desert and Europe. Her short film Island was commissioned as part of the Guardian Documentary Series and premiered at the Sheffield Festival in 2017. It won Best Short Film at the Ânûû-rû âboro Festival in New Caledonia. Island Of The Hungry Ghosts is her first feature film. The film has won several awards, including Best Documentary at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, the Buyens-Chagoll Award at Visions du Réel 2018, the Grand Jury Prize at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the IDFA Human Rights Award.
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Island of the Hungry Ghosts
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Located off the coast of Indonesia, Australia's Christmas Island is populated by migratory crabs moving by the millions from the jungle to the ocean. Poh Lin is a "trauma therapist" who lives with her family in this wild and hostile landscape. Every day, she talks to asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention center, working tirelessly to support them in a situation that is a...
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
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Located off the coast of Indonesia, Australia's Christmas Island is populated by migratory crabs moving by the millions from the jungle to the ocean. Poh Lin is a "trauma therapist" who lives with her family in this wild and hostile landscape. Every day, she talks to asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention center, working tirelessly to support them in a situation that is a...
