AIDC 2016 – SBS commissioning for controversy

'We want ideas that scare us..' and we do have money for that. And we don't get enough scarey ideas.
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SBS trains its loyal staff to deal with controversy using learnings from Struggle Street. Image: actually a promo shot from SBS for DNA Nation, by Blackfella Films.  

SBS came to AIDC this year just a little shell-shocked after a year of big wins, a few kickings – principally over the screening of Struggle Street – and on the back of recent discussion about its relevance and public conversations about its charter and the merits or otherwise of a merger with the ABC.

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John Lewis
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John Lewis started as a print journalist, and is now a hardened documentary producer whose experience covers high end science, dramatised documentaries and multimedia.