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SBS documentaries shine at AACTA Awards
SBS has taken home two awards from the newly established Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards were announced at the inaugural AACTA Awards luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
Dominating the nominations in the documentary category, SBS shone through at the awards taking home Best Documentary Series for SAS – The Search for Warriors and Best Sound in a Documentary for murundak – songs of feedom.
SAS – The Search for Warriors collected the award in the Best Documentary Series category out of three SBS nominations. The two-part series, which transmitted on SBS ONE in December 2010, revealed for the first time in 25 years what it takes to pass the toughest military selection course in the world, the Australian Special Air Service Regiment.
Collecting the award for Best Sound in a Documentary was murundak - songs of freedom. The ninety minute, musical documentary film that followed the award-winning Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia’s finest indigenous musicians, as they took to the road with their songs of resistance and freedom. Filmed against the backdrop of Australia’s changing political landscape, murundak – songs of freedom (Daybreak Films), which transmitted on SBS ONE in May 2011, charted the most significant events in Australian music history as the Black Arm Band sang up the country’s troubled past through their stories of sorrow, anger and hope.
For more information, please contact:
Claire Nance
T: (02) 9430 3792
E: claire.nance@sbs.com.au