Letters to Ali
Throughout the years as an immigrant living in Australia, I have reflected often on this new country. In the year 2001 I felt the country was heading in a very negative direction. In 2002 around October I read an article in the newspaper written by a young doctor on her story with an asylum seeker, a 16-year-old boy from Afghanistan. I was very moved by the story and felt that I had to do something. There was also an urgency to the subject and that was why in the middle of 2003 I simply put down what I was doing, went ahead and shot this essay film with a DV camera and funded it myself.