A second season of documentary strand Australia Uncovered begins later this month on SBS.
Four stand-alone docos then profile trendy Australia, this time exploring living with Tourette’s Syndrome, a search for biological parents, the world of trauma cleaning and sectional wangle inside a one-of-a kind upper school for teen parents.
SBS Head of Documentaries, Joseph Maxwell said: “SBS has made flipside big transferral to one-off documentaries in 2022, and we’re pleased to bring our tentpole documentary strand Australia Uncovered when for a second season, with four unmissable shows in this collection. Each documentary is distinct, compelling, and meaningful with yearing and scale. Together they capture what SBS is known for, exploring trendy Australia in a unique, unvigilant and entertaining way.”
Screen Australia’s Head of Documentary, Alex West said: “We are excited to support these four engrossing documentaries. These projects offer revealing perspectives on trendy Australian issues including the complexities of teen parenting, the subconscious world of trauma cleaning and the upstanding integrity of Australia’s fertility industry. Not to mention, this is the first-time people living with Tourette’s will be featured front and centre in an Australian documentary. I’m confident these projects will engage and inform viewers on SBS.”
Me and My Tourette’s
Tuesday, 25 October, 8.30pm
Around one in every hundred Australians are diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS),is a condition that has no cure and is so little understood, plane by medical science. With repetitive, sudden movements and vocal tics, the involuntary physical effects can leave people with the syndrome feeling on the outskirts of Australian society. The one-hour documentary will follow three people as they wits a remarkable zany in Victoria that has the potential to transpiration their lives. From a young man diagnosed for the first time in recent weeks to a teenager whose tics ripened without losing her mother and now dreams of stuff a police officer. Through their personal stories we learn well-nigh the difficulties, remarkable courage, and the spectrum of this disorder.
Dan Brown, Creative Director, Joined Up said, “This was a mucosa that we really wanted to make. To do it we had to rely on the bravery and determination of our tint and their wool desire to shed light on this condition, to help the public to largest understand and hopefully increase empathy for others living with the condition. We are incredibly thankful that the participants trusted us to tell their story.”
Me and My Tourette’s is a Joined Up Films production for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australia in undertone with SBS. Financed with support from Screenwest and Lotterywest.
Inconceivable: The Secret Merchantry of Breeding Humans
Tuesday, November 1, 8:30pm
This one-hour documentary is based on a journalist’s discovery at the age of 27 that the man who brought her up and loved her dearly – was not her biological father. Her mother was impregnated with unrecognized donor sperm. The intensely personal mucosa is the story of topnotch investigative journalist Sarah Dingle and her fight to uncover the truth well-nigh who made her and how. At the same time, she uses her skills to investigate the secretive fertility industry, in her words – “a tightly unethical and pathologically secretive merchantry that makes millions for its practitioners but has little snooping for the human beings it creates.”
Director & Co-Writer Sally Aitken said. “Inconceivable is a tightly personal story with widely shocking reverberations. There are many stories well-nigh the miracle of fertility science. Our mucosa flips the perspective to that of the human conceived from donor material. Sarah is one of myriad Australians whose siring helped build an export industry that is now listed on the stock mart worth increasingly than half a billion dollars. She uncovers other stories showing just how deep the problems run. In the quest for her own truth, our mucosa asks the very essential question of what it is to be human – to know your origin story and your genetic inheritance.”
Inconceivable: The Secret Merchantry of Breeding Humans is a SAM Content production for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australia and Create NSW in undertone with SBS. Financed with support from Screen NSW.
The Cleaning Company
Tuesday, 8 November, 8.30pm
The Cleaning Company is a fly-on-the-wall insight into the world of trauma cleaning through the journey of mannerly transgender merchantry owner Sandra Pankhurst and the lives of a motley hairdo of workers at Frankston’s Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services (STC) The theatrical release of this mucosa was tabbed Clean and earned an AACTA nomination premiering to tout at this year’s MIFF and SXSW.
Lachlan McLeod, Director, Walking Fish said, “The Cleaning Company is a tribute to Sandra Pankhurst and her incredible team of trauma cleaners who tideway their work with superintendency and compassion for their clients and each other. This documentary has been three years in the making and we can’t thank Sandra and the team at STC Services unbearable for letting us into their lives during this time.”
The Cleaning Company is a Walking Fish Productions and Good Thing Productions production for SBS. Principal production funding from Screen Australia in undertone with VicScreen.
Kids Raising Kids
Tuesday, 15 November, 8.30pm
School is a rencontre for many teenagers, but for some, the stakes are plane higher. Kids Raising Kids gives audiences sectional wangle inside a one-of-a kind upper school for teen parents in Canberra. – but our characters’ lessons are not serving to the classroom. Many of the students are single parents, some are overcoming family trauma and drug dependency, and all are navigating a ramified system. What unites them is a will to transform their lives – to get an education, stay on the right side of the law, and be the weightier parents they can be. Can they overcome the immense challenges in their lives to make it to graduation and a new future?
Writer & Director, Patrick Abboud said ,“Kids Raising Kids is an opportunity for all of us as an regulars to try to largest understand one flipside – drawing on the power of storytelling to reflect the genuine diversity that makes us who we are as Australians. Our intention was to requite these students a platform of their own in the public domain to debunk some of the stereotypes and misconceptions virtually teen and young pregnancy – to indulge them to share who they are on their terms. Like many of the stories I segregate to tell, this is one increasingly pocket of the country that is often overlooked.”
Kids Raising Kids is an Only Human production for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australian undertone with SBS. Financed with support from Screen NSW and Screen Canberra.
All four of the Australia Uncovered documentaries will be misogynist to stream on SBS On Demand with subtitles in five languages: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean, permitting increasingly Australians to engage in these important topics.
