Testimony
This short was made with the art and writing of the artist/film maker Rachael Romero who labored, as a girl, in "The Pines," Convent of the Good Shepherd Laundry, South Australia. Romero begins to address the legacy of the effects of these experiences on the lives of the women who endured them.
For 150 years, many thousands of young women were incarcerated in Roman Catholic convents around the world where they were forced to do hard labor without pay in commercial laundries known collectively as Magdalene Laundries.
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An excerpt of the experience in The Pines, a Magdalene Laundry in South Australia 1967-68
Women who have Lost their Way by Rachael Romero - Thursday, 20 June 2013 [To read the full article, visit:
A film by NICK CAREW Producer
ROBERT AYRES
Executive Producers AMANDA AUSTEN LOUISA BOLCH
DR. KATHERINE O’DONNELL PROFESSOR GORDON LYNCH
Emily RACHEL WARREN
Mistress JANET PRINCE
Director of Photography MAYA ART
Costume Designer LENKA PADYSAKOVA
Production Manager STUART PORTER
Music AUDIO NETWORKS
Laundry images courtesy of DR. FRANCES FINNEGAN
Good Shepherd Laundry, Limerick images courtesy of EVELYN GLYNN
With special thanks to GABRIELLE O’GORMAN and TIM STEVENS
Produced in association with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT
and THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL
This film is dedicated to the women who worked in the Magdalene institutions © CTVC Ltd/TrueTube.co.uk 2013