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1 form y separately published work icon Four Years Mithila Gupta , Nicole Reddy , S. Shakthidharan , ( dir. Mohini Herse et. al. )agent Australia : SBS Easy Tiger Productions , 2024 27317495 2024 series - publisher film/TV

'Achingly powerful, Four Years follows the turbulent marriage of two young Indian lovers, Sridevi and Yash, through two timelines, two worlds, told through dual perspectives. Full of romance and the yearning to find someone you once loved again, in amongst the turmoils and challenges of life, this ground-breaking Australian series uses the Hindi and English languages interchangeably.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon Swift Street Tig Terera , Sam Carroll , Briar Grace-Smith , Nicole Reddy , ( dir. Tig Terera et. al. )agent Melbourne : Magpie Pictures SBS , 2024 25822026 2024 series - publisher film/TV crime Twenty-one-year old Elsie teams up with her old-school hustler father to try and get him out of debt to a merciless crime boss, but they find themselves committed to more and more serious crimes.
1 3 form y separately published work icon Safe Home Anna Barnes , Michelle Law , Jean Tong , ( dir. Stevie Cruz-Martin ) Australia : Kindling Pictures SBS , 2023 23923086 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'Safe Home tells the story of Phoebe, a young woman working at a not-for-profit legal centre helping women escape domestic abuse, whose life gets turned upside down when she witnesses a murder on a suburban street.'

Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2022/02-21-new-australian-drama-series-safe-home). (Sighted: 03/03/2022)

1 3 form y separately published work icon Hungry Ghosts Timothy Hobart , Michele Lee , Alan Nguyen , Jeremy Nguyen , John Ridley , ( dir. Shawn Seet ) Australia : SBS Matchbox Pictures , 2020 15284558 2020 series - publisher film/TV horror

'When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le (Văn-Davies) must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatised by war.

'Hungry Ghosts reflects the extraordinary lived and spiritual stories of the Vietnamese community and explores the inherent trauma passed down from one generation to the next, and how notions of displacement impact human identity – long after the events themselves.'

Source: SBS (https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2020/07/24/new-tv-drama-hungry-ghosts-four-night-special-event-coming-sbs). (Sighted: 20/08/2020).

1 y separately published work icon SBS Voices Sydney : SBS , 2019- 23421837 2019 website periodical (3 issues)

A relaunch of the website SBS Life, SBS Voices was launched in mid-2019.

It hosts the publication of winners from the SBS Emerging Voices competition, which are indexed on AustLit.

1 form y separately published work icon Missing Kylie Boltin , Australia : SBS , 2019 18892000 2019 single work film/TV An interactive online documentary about the abduction, in 1966, of Wendy Jane Pfeiffer from Mylor in the Adelaide Hills, and her discovery by two Pitjantjatjara trackers.
1 form y separately published work icon Number One Gay Son Benjamin Law , Kirsty Fisher , ( dir. Sophie Miller ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures SBS , 2019 16969142 2019 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Our Stories 2016 Australia : SBS , 2018- 15411063 2016 series - publisher film/TV

'Our Stories is a vibrant series of 15 minute documentaries from remote and regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander film makers.' (Production summary)

1 form y separately published work icon Safe Harbour [Episode One] Belinda Chayko , ( dir. Glendyn Ivin ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures SBS , 2018 15099691 2018 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon On the Ropes The Ropes Tamara Asmar , Adam Todd , Ian Meadows , Courtney Wise , ( dir. Shannon Murphy ) Australia : Lingo Pictures SBS , 2018 13357986 2018 series - publisher film/TV

A young Iraqi-Australian woman in the western suburbs of Sydney chases her dream of becoming an elite boxing trainer.

Source: Screen Australia.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Dead Lucky Ellie Beaumont , Drew Proffitt , ( dir. David Caesar ) Sydney : Subtext Pictures SBS , 2018 11605931 2018 series - publisher film/TV crime

'Rachel Griffiths plays a detective obsessed with catching an armed robber who murdered one of her junior officers, her new trainee (Yoson An) blames her for the death of his best friend. The story surrounds a share-house of international students, a pair of corrupt shop owners, a grieving widow and a gunman, who all collide, leaving one dead and another missing.'

Source: TV Tonight (http://tvtonight.com.au/2017/08/rachel-griffiths-leads-new-sbs-drama-dead-lucky.html). (Sighted: 21/08/2017)

1 1 form y separately published work icon Homecoming Queens Michelle Law , Chloë Reeson , ( dir. Corrie Chen ) Australia : Generator Pictures SBS , 2018 11576166 2018 series - publisher film/TV

Comedy-drama about two twenty-something best friends who reinvent themselves after experiencing chronic illness.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Safe Harbour Belinda Chayko , Phil Enchelmaier , Matt Cameron , ( dir. Daniel Nettheim ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures SBS , 2018 10730760 2018 single work film/TV

'Four years after six Australians on a yachting holiday came to the aid of an asylum seeker boat, a tragic series of events return to haunt them.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon K'gari Fiona Foley , Larissa Behrendt , Tori-Jay Mordey (illustrator), Sydney : SBS , 2017 12361285 2017 single work film/TV

An interactive documentary telling the story of the shipwreck of Eliza Fraser on K'gari (later Fraser Island) from the perspective of the Butchulla people among whom she found herself.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Fair Game Jeff Daniels , ( dir. Jeff Daniels ) Sydney : SBS , 2017 11662604 2017 film/TV biography

'Heritier Lumumba, formerly known as Harry O'Brien, was in the middle of his best season of AFL when his club president, Eddie McGuire, made a racist on-air comment, suggesting that Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes could be used to promote a King Kong musical. As a man of colour and strong supporter of equality, Lumumba chose to speak out against his high-profile boss. What followed was a media storm and an on-air showdown with McGuire which painted Lumumba as an overly PC, hyper-sensitive villain. Through exclusive access to Lumumba, his friends and family, AFL legends Mick Malthouse, former Collingwood Captain Nick Maxwell and sports journalists, Fair Game uncovers the personal and professional journey of a man who at the top of his game, dared to hold a mirror to a nation that didn't like what it saw.' (Synopsis)

1 19 form y separately published work icon The Family Law Benjamin Law , Marieke Hardy , Kirsty Fisher , Lawrence Leung , Australia : Matchbox Pictures SBS , 2016-2019 8137847 2016 series - publisher film/TV

'Welcome to The Family Law. The story of a sprawling Chinese-Australian family who are unlike any you've ever met, and yet also disturbingly familiar. Based on the hit memoir, The Family Law is a black comedy series set on Queensland's Sunshine Coast over one hot summer. Fourteen-year-old Benjamin Law strives for television soap mega-stardom whilst trying to stop his parents from splitting up, usually with disastrous results.' (Production summary)

For full list of episodes and authors, see Film Details.

1 y separately published work icon Late Night in a Car Park True Stories Podcast S2 Ep1 : Late Night in a Car Park Nakkiah Lui , Sydney : SBS , 2016 16963118 2016 single work podcast autobiography 'Nakkiah Lui has just started to question if she was raped... late one night in a car park. But facing the question is harder than the answer itself.' (Source: SBS True Stories website)
1 y separately published work icon Greyhound True Stories Podcast S2 Ep2 : Greyhound André Dao , Sydney : SBS , 2016 16963223 2016 single work autobiography podcast 'In the hope of settling himself, Andre leaves the city behind and journeys to what he thinks is the empty heart of Australia. Except, as he discovers, it isn’t empty at all.' (Source: SBS True Stories website)
1 y separately published work icon Ex-Yugos True Stories Podcast S2 Ep3 : Ex-Yugos Sofija Stefanovic , Sydney : SBS , 2016 16963357 2016 single work autobiography podcast 'Born in a country that no longer exists, Sofija arrives in Australia as a child who has escaped a civil-war. Her home country Yugoslavia is divided, but as she discovers late one night on a Melbourne tram, ex-Yugos are still united in many other ways.' (Source: SBS True Stories website)
1 y separately published work icon Mosque, Mourning & Girls True Stories Podcast S2 Ep4 : Mosque, Mourning & Girls Osamah Sami , Sydney : SBS , 2016 16963471 2016 single work autobiography podcast 'Osamah is 19, and his main aim during Ashura, a ten-day Islamic ritual, is to score the chat-room nickname of Houda, the girl whose long eyelashes feed his new obsession.' (Source: SBS True Stories website)
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