AUSTRALIA
WA Today
March 9 2016
Garry Maddox
A film about a landmark sexual abuse case for damages against an Anglican school is shooting in Queensland with an impressive cast headed by Rachel Griffiths, Jack Thompson, Aden Young and Jacqueline McKenzie.
Director Tori Garrett calls Don’t Tell a “riveting” courtroom drama that tells an important story that triggered new regulations and contributed towards the creation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
“The material is so strong,” Garrett says. “The stuff that we’re talking about in the courtroom is straight from the court transcripts, so it’s all word for word true.”
Don’t Tell is based on a book by lawyer Stephen Roach (Young), who represented a 22-year-old woman known only as Lyndal (Sara West) when she took action against Toowoomba Preparatory School in 2001.
The school had denied she was sexually abused by a boarding house master, played by Gyton Grantley, a decade earlier. As a result of the case the Anglican Archdiocese of Brisbane paid her compensation of more than $800,000.
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