SBS makes Walkley finals

18 Oct 2011, 11:59 am   -   Source: SBS Staff
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'Go Back To Where You Came From' traced the journeys of six ordinary Australians to refugees' countries of origin. (SBS)

'Go Back To Where You Came From' traced the journeys of six ordinary Australians to refugees' countries of origin. (SBS)

SBS is well represented in this year's annual Walkley Awards with a handful of finalists being announced across the categories. 

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SBS is well represented in this year's annual Walkley Awards with a handful of finalists being announced across the categories. 

Dateline once again leads the way, with four finalists.

Yaara Bou Melhem, the current Young Australian Journalist of the year, has reached the final in the International Journalism category with her series Syria: Freedom’s Call and Bahrain’s Dark Secret which examined issues arising from The Arab Spring, one of the biggest international stories this year.

Fouad Hady, Geoff Parish and Melanie Morrison are finalists in two categories – International Journalism and Television Current Affairs (less than 20 minutes) – for Breaking Point which examined why an Iraqi asylum seeker took his own life at the Villawood detention Centre.

And the fourth finalist from Dateline is video journalist Aaron Lewis for Best Broadcast Camerawork with his entry Manhunt!, about the search in the African jungle for Uganda's fugitive terrorist Joseph Kony.

For the second year in a row, Radio News is represented in the finals, with Sacha Payne and SBS World News Australia Radio team listed in the Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special category with their entry Two decades, too little, too late for many … which marks the 20th Anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

For the first time this year there is a separate Documentary Award where all three finalists in the category are SBS commissioned docos.

Only one – Go Back to Where You Came From – has been broadcast. The other two – The Tall Man and Scarlet Road will go to air soon.

The winners will be announced at a gala presentation in Brisbane on Sunday 27 November.

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Congratulations to all of you.

Derf Skren - from Newcastle, 7 months ago

Great work SBS!

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