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Saroo Brierley (born c. 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman and author who, at the age of five, was accidentally separated from his biological family. He was adopted out of India by an Australian couple but was reunited with his original family 25 years later after finding his hometown via Google Earth .
A special red carpet charity event for the Tasmanian premiere of Lion was attended by the film's subject, Saroo Brierley, and his family at the State Cinema in December 2016. [ 24 ] The film was made available on Digital HD on 28 March 2017, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on 11 April.
Originally designed with seating for 412 patrons, the venue officially opened as the North Hobart Picture Palace on 2 October 1913. [2] The theatre housed the North Hobart Concert Band until 1920, when the waning cost of the Great War, Spanish flu and growing competition from theatres in the city centre caused the venue to close all together.
Rosny College was founded in 1973 to provide opportunities for post-Year 10 education in the City of Clarence and it draws the large majority of its students from associated schools on the eastern shore of the Derwent River in Hobart, including Bayview Secondary College, the Clarence, Rose Bay, and Sorell High Schools, and the Campania, Tasman, and Triabunna District Schools. [2]
His best known book is A Long Way Home, the Saroo Brierley memoir, which he ghost-wrote in 2012. He researched and wrote the book between September and December of that year, including research trips to Hobart to interview Saroo and his family, and a month-long journey to India with Saroo.
A Long Way Home is a non-fiction book by Indian-Australian businessman Saroo Brierley written together with Larry Buttrose. The text was initially released in Australia on 24 June 2013 via Viking , then re-released internationally in 2014, and adapted into a major film in 2016.
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South West Cape is a cape located at the south-west corner of Tasmania, Australia.The cape is situated in the south-western corner of the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) southwest of Hobart in Tasmania, and about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west and slightly north of South East Cape.