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KYM STATON is the Australian director and producer of the 2023 documentary, The Trust Fall, a 126-minute rumination on the 15-year political evisceration of the journalist, activist and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been indicted under the 1917 US Espionage Act, and incarcerated in Belmarsh prison in London since 2019.
The release of this film in Britain and Australia comes in the wake of Assange’s final appeal at the Supreme Court on February 20-21, amid cacophonous coverage from the international media.
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