Partially produced in Tasmania by Irish production company Ned Kelly Pictures, CONVICT WOMEN is a pioneering film/TV series that fuses history, genealogy and drama to reveal the stories of these forgotten women for the first time.
From 1787 to 1853, over 25,000 women, nearly half of them Irish, were transported in the dark holds of ships on a 16,000-mile journey to the other side of the world as bonded labour. Arriving alone, or with small children in the colonies, these single, married and widowed women, lived, loved, toiled and died under Australian skies.
Check out the website here, including a great gallery of production stills.
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