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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mary Meets Mohammad
  name:
    name part: Kirkpatrick, Heather
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, 80 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
  abstract: The film opens with the Australian government’s surprise announcement to build Tasmania’s first detention centre for 400 male asylum seekers at Pontville on the outskirts of Hobart. The local community erupts with hostility as the Department of Immigration host a public meeting. When a suggestion is made at the local knitting club, to make beanies for the asylum seekers, not everyone is in support. Knitter and elderly Christian woman Mary is strongly opposed to the Muslim asylum seekers. However she becomes curious to see the ‘luxurious life’ the detainees are rumoured to have, so visits the centre a couple of months later, as the beanies are delivered. Mary and four other knitters become regular visitors to the asylum seekers. The knitters’ friendships deepen with the men from Afghanistan as they help knitting and craft activities flourish within the detention centre. Asylum seeker Mohammad provides revealing insights of life inside the detention centre and the knitters are surprised by the first hunger strike at the centre. When the detention centre closes after six months some of the refugees decide to settle in Hobart. The knitters stay in contact with them and we see a close relationship develop between Mohammad and Mary. Despite their friendship Mary remains uncomfortable with Mohammad’s Islamic beliefs.
  note: Originally produced by Waratah Films in 2013.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    topic: Political refugees
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: Tasmania
  subject:
    topic: Alien detention centers
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    topic: Detention of persons
    geographic: Australia
  identifier: 1116515 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NZEN
    record creation date: 141106
    record change date: 20260324182048.7
    record identifier: in00003585578