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Introduction
Welcome to the 'Go Back to Where You Came from' research guide created for Year 11 Media Production and Analysis ATAR students.
"The ground-breaking and multi award-winning series returns to provoke national debate about how Australia responds to refugees and asylum seekers.
Six ordinary Australians will challenge their strongly held beliefs about refugees and asylum seekers on an immersive, reverse journey in which they will retrace the steps of those seeking asylum to some of the most dangerous places in the world.
Much has changed in the three years since season two got the nation talking back in 2012. But with the introduction of the Federal Government’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policies, controversy surrounding detainee treatment in detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, and a growing public awareness of ‘stateless’ asylum seekers, the issues are as important and divisive as ever.
Meet the six Australians who will embark on a journey to see the world through the eyes of refugees, including a former refugee, two sisters with opposing opinions, a Nauru and Manus Island whistle-blower, a tough talking teacher, and a ‘Stop the Boats’ campaigner."
Go Back To Where You Came From Trailer
Mahoney, I. (Director). (2011). Go Back To Where You Came From [Television Documentary]. AUS: Cordell Jigsaw for SBS
Summary
- Screen Australia. (2011). Go back to where you came from. Retrieved from http://aso.gov.au/titles/tv/go-back-to-where-you-came-from/notes/
Go Back to Where You Came From, hosted by Dr David Corlett, invites participants to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers by embarking on a confronting 25-day adventure, tracing in reverse the journeys taken by refugees now settled in Australia. - Burnstock, T. (2016). Curator's notes. Retrieved from http://aso.gov.au/titles/tv/go-back-to-where-you-came-from/notes/Go Back to Where You Came From is a groundbreaking series which clearly demonstrates the power of experiential television. Although the program contains a level of artifice and situational storytelling common to reality TV, this program is a sophisticated example of the power of this genre to take both participants and audiences on an emotional as well as intellectual journey. The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world.
Ivan Mahoney (Director)
- O'Mahoney, I. (2017). Ivan O'Mahoney biography. Retrieved from http://in-films.com/ivan-omahoney/
Ivan has produced and directed films for HBO, BBC, ARTE, Channel 4, PBS and Discovery Channel. A former lawyer and UN peacekeeper in Bosnia, he holds degrees in international law (Leyden) and journalism (Columbia). Ivan received the 2013 AACTA for Best Documentary Series and 2012 ADG award for Best Direction in a Documentary Series, for his work on Go Back To Where You Came From.
Awards
- CJZ. (2015). Go Back To Where You Came From. Retrieved from http://www.cjz.com.au/programs/go-back-to-where-you-came-from/Go Back To Where You Came From awards:
2015 Winner of SPA Awards for Documentary Television Production of the Year
2013 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Scripted Entertainment
2012 Logie for Most Outstanding Documentary
2012 Rose d’Or nomination for Best Factual Entertainment
2012 The Banff World Media Awards – Nomination for Social and Humanitarian documentary category
2011 Walkley nomination Best Documentary. - The West Australian. (2012, May 14). News Flash.Controversial SBS documentary series Go Back To Where You Came From last week became the first Australian production to take home a prestigious Gold Rose Award in Switzerland.
Newspaper Critics
- Quinn, K. (2011, November 15). SBS to return to its roots. Age, The (Melbourne). p. 6.The controversial documentary series Go Back To Where You Came From would need to be "the new benchmark for SBS content" as the multicultural broadcaster strove to prove it remained relevant, the network's chief Michael Ebeid said yesterday.
- Crane, E. (2016, June 16). A refugee who came 'the right way', a woman who says we're 'living with the enemy' and a tough-talking teacher: Meet the stars of new season of controversial series Go Back To Where You Came From. Daily Mail Australia.The series, which last aired in 2012, aims to provoke national debate about how Australia responds to refugees and asylum seekers.
- Sheehan, P. (2011, June 23). You call this even-handed? Refugee series is strictly for the gullible. Sydney Morning HeraldOne of the most passionate and enduring debates in this country has been built on a falsity, a false choice that is being carefully recrafted, repackaged and re-presented on SBS this week, at taxpayer expense.
- Ausburn, K. (2011, June 28). Racism, go back to where you came from. Australian News.The attitude of Australians towards asylum seekers was the focus of national discussion last week as SBS aired the documentary series Go Back To Where You Came From.