Chasing Asylum looks into the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how leaders decided to choose detention over compassion and deprive the desperate of their basic human rights. The feature-length documentary is directed by Eva Orner, producer of the Academy award-winning film Taxi To The Dark Side. Chasing Asylum premieres at the Human Rights Arts & Film festival (touring nationally in May and June). Guardian Australia’s Helen Davidson will be moderating the festival’s screening of Chasing Asylum and Q&A in Darwin on 7 June.