影片原产国：澳大利亚

　　片长：52 分钟

　　语言：英语

　　制作年份：2005

　　首播日期：27/6/2005

　　作者：卡伦·伯克曼，希瑟·菲利普斯（原稿和创意）

　　出品公司：澳大利亚电影公司

　　内容简介：1967年，莉莉还不满17岁。当警察以道德败坏的罪名拘捕她时，已经怀有两个月身孕的莉莉正和男友史蒂夫幸福地生活在一起。虽然他们俩都得到父母的同意可以登记结婚，但还是被强行分隔开。莉莉被软禁在一所天主教女子收容所里，直至孩子出生。孤独迷茫的她终于在他人的操纵下，签字同意将婴儿交给别人收养。几乎三十年的时光过去了，这件事至今仍是莉莉生命的分界线。“我想我永远也无法忘怀，我的孩子是给人偷走的。”莉莉的遭遇并非绝无仅有。从50到70年代这三十多年以来，澳大利亚当局强迫许多未婚母亲放弃自己的孩子，将婴儿交给官方认为是更好的人家——已婚夫妇收养。。。。。。在当时那个单身母亲和私生子毫无容身之地的社会中，这些妇女没有意识到自己的合法权利。她们有的被胁迫，甚至被强行拖进了这场生死离别中。她们的孩子就这么赤裸裸地被偷走了。尽管有人争辩说当时这种做法的出发点是好的，但是对于身受其害的人来说，那种永远摆脱不了的打击却是巨大的。纪录片“托付好人家”探讨了这些妇女的遭遇以及她们如何费尽苦心寻找自己的孩子，向他们承认自己的过错；同时也反映了社会价值观至今发生的巨大转变。

　　导演简历：导演卡伦·伯克曼是一位具有20多年电视工作经验的澳大利亚独立影片制作人。她麾下的光芒奇妙电影公司在过去8年里，一共完成了四部长纪录片，另外还有两部仍在制作中。影片“托付好人家”是卡伦为其他制片导演和著作的第一部影片。在全职投入纪录片制作以前，卡伦一直是商业新闻台和澳大利亚广播公司（自90年代以来）的电视新闻和时事记者。她还曾在邦德大学兼职任教13年，讲授电视新闻学。目前仍然每个学期在昆士兰大学讲授一个课题。卡伦还坚持担任澳大利亚广播公司电视台的临时记者，进行新闻和时事报道。这样她就既能投身迅速的新闻时事报道，又能感受与之形成强烈对比的长期纪录片制作。卡伦已经完成了一部剧情片的剧本创作，并且在另外一部由影星布赖恩·布朗担纲的澳洲影片“亲爱的克劳迪娅”中担任实习导演。卡伦婚后养育了三个孩子，现在居住在澳洲黄金海岸的内地。

　　Name of Entry：Gone to a Good Home

　　Country of Production：Australia

　　Running Time：52 minutes

　　Commentary Language：English

　　Year of Production：2005

　　Date of First Release：27/6/2005

　　Author：Karen Berkman, Heather Philips (original script and concept)

　　Company of Production：Film Australia

　　Brief Synopsis：In 1967, Lily was nearly 17, two months pregnant and living happily with her boyfriend Steve when police arrested her, declaring she was in moral danger. Despite having parental permission to marry, the couple were kept apart and Lily was confined in a Catholic girls home until the baby was born. Alone and confused, she was manipulated into signing adoption papers. Almost 30 years later, her life is still defined by that event. “I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. It was the theft of my child.” Lily’s story is not unique. For three decades, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Australian authorities pressured many unmarried mothers to give up their babies for adoption into what they considered “better” homes - those of married couples. At a time when society had no place for single mothers and their illegitimate children, these women were unaware of their legal rights. Sometimes they were coerced, even drugged, and their babies literally stolen. Despite arguments that the practice was well-intentioned, for the individuals involved the ongoing impact has been devastating. This documentary explores the experiences of these women and their efforts to contact their children and gain recognition for past wrongs, while revealing the dramatic change in social values that has since occurred.

　　C.V. of Director(s)：Karen Berkman - Director Karen Berkman is an independent Australian filmmaker with more than 20 years’ experience in television. In the past eight years, her company, Light Fantastic Films, has completed four full length documentaries. Two more are in development. Gone to a Good Home is her first work as director/writer for another producer. Before moving full-time to documentary production, Karen worked as a TV news and current affairs journalist for commercial news and - since the 1990s - for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She taught TV journalism part-time at Bond University for 13 years and now teaches one subject a semester at Queensland University. Karen continues to work as a casual reporter for ABC-TV news and current affairs, enjoying both the speed required for reporting and its complete contrast to long form documentary. She has written a feature film script and worked as director’s intern on an Australian movie, Dear Claudia, starring Bryan Brown. Married with three children, Karen lives in the Gold Coast hinterland.

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