New series funding announced by Screen Australia include
Our Medicine :
A 6 x 30-minute documentary series for NITV following First Nations professionals working on the medical front-line as they try to achieve better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and communities. The series examines how these professionals navigate the medical system with their culture and identity at the forefront and look at the strategies necessary to close the unacceptable gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health outcomes. Attached is series director Kimberley Benjamin (Family Rules), co-director Karla Hart (Yokayi Footy , Family Rules) and post director Jeremy Thomson, with Karla Hart and Sam Bodhi Field of Our Law producing. It has received major production investment from NITV with support from Screenwest, Lotterywest and the WA Regional Screen Fund.
The Jury Project :
From Northern Pictures, The Jury Project is a four-part series for SBS that puts the jury system on trial and explores the challenges and intricacies of the justice system. The Jury Project is directed by Tosca Looby and executive produced by Karina Holden, whose credits include Asking For It and See What You Made Me Do. It has received major production investment from SBS.
“Our audiences love historical dramas with a thrilling edge and we are sure they will be seduced by the impressive scale of the production, evocative setting of wartime Switzerland and the thrilling tale of espionage that unfolds,” said Haidee Ireland, channel manager for SBS On Demand and SBS World Movies.
SBS has taken Marlon Brando: In Paradise (1×52’, ZDF/Arte), The Exiles: Secretly Deported (2×48’), and Music Voyager (60×30’), all for the pubcaster’s daytime slots.
SBS Viceland bought sex and relationships series F*ck Berlin (4×30’), while SBS Food acquired Paula McIntyre’s Hamely Kitchen (16×30’), and Taiwan Bites (8×42’).
SBS Food has already shown Hamely Kitchen and Taiwan Bites.
A Hotel Through Time (6×60’) explores the hidden histories, secrets and scandals of some of the UK’s most iconic hotels, including The Ritz, The Savoy and The Langham.
In scripted news, Spinal Destination produced by Great Southern Film & TV for Sky TV New Zealand has been sold to SBS Australia. Created by award winning writer and director Paula Whetu Jones, this confronting comedy drama set in a spinal unit was inspired by the writer’s own story of suddenly becoming disabled and the highs and lows she consequently found herself in whilst in recovery.
SBS has picked up Science Fiction Revolution (5×52’), which explores the sci-fi movies of the 80s, plus Second World War docs Shooter of War (1×56’) and The Incredible Life of Captain Harding Leaf (1×52’).
Travels with Agatha Christie with David Suchet will be part of program slate from distributor Sphere Abacus at MIPCOM next week. Suchet will also be attending the event.
