The Hot Potato: The Road to Transformation
Seen it?2013 | 44 min | Documentary
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Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Aimed squarely at anyone who loves backroom deals and speeches and the curious. Power and ambition drive every scene. Liked An Inconvenient Truth? This is a good next one.
- The mood
- Eye-opening.
- The pace
- Moves through the story clearly, at 44 min. Short enough for a weeknight.
- What might put you off
- Skip it if you want made-up drama tonight.
To cool the heat on the asylum debate - the biggest 'hot potato' in Australian politics, we took a hot potato food van around the country in the lead up to the 2013 Federal Election. The mission? To see what Australia really thinks asylum seekers. This is an account of this journey.
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Cast & crew
Directed by Timothy Gibbs
- Imogen BaileyHerself
- Julian Burnside
- Wouter De Backer
- Jana Favero
- Jana Favero
- Reg Roordink
- Mark Seymour