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First Impressions
Title:
First Impressions
NFSA ID
1445328
Year
1984
Issues for refugee children growing up in Australia in 1984. This short film looks at prejudice and Australians through the eyes of young Vietnamese children recently arrived in Australia. It is based around excerpts from school compositions and poems and was produced for use in classrooms as a video teaching aid.
First Impressions, 1984, Film Australia Collection © NFSA. Buy a copy at the NFSA shop.
Director
Karl McPhee
Producer
Tim Read
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