Commissioning Difference? The Case of SBS Independent and Documentary

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ID5904780
AuthorsBelinda Smaill (0000-0001-8198-992X, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume107
Issue1
Pages105-116
Publication date2003-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x0310700111
OpenAlexW2261807946
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

SBS Independent (SBSI) is the arm of SBS Television responsible for commissioning new work. Since 1994, SBSI has been working in conjunction with other screen funding bodies to commission feature film, short drama, animation and documentary. The charter that dictates the practices of SBS Television also provides guidelines for SBSI, which is consequently required to focus on work that is innovative and concerned with Indigenous issues and cultural diversity. This article focuses on the case of documentary in Australia and the impact of SBSI on a filmmaking community and contemporary documentary culture with particular reference to the Australia by Numbers and Hybrid Life series of half-hour programs. The focus on diversity, and the fact that this is the first Australian television institution to adopt an outsourcing model for almost all production, means that SBSI has formed a unique relationship with independent documentary. Here I examine the specificity and efficacy of this relationship

Art · Charter · Documentary film · Drama · Filmmaking · Indigenous · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Visual arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Ecology

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