MUMBAI: Screen Australia has initiated funding for documentaries with a four-part SBS series. The funding would be worth $1.8 million across six one-off documentaries and one series and is expected to trigger $4.8m worth of production.
 
Following on from SBS‘s four part series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta, which aired earlier this year and took 0.850m viewers across SBS1 in English and SBS 2 in Vietnamese will be Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl. The series will examine the Lebanese migrant settlement in Western Sydney and produced by Tim Toni and executive produced by Sue Clothier.
 
"I‘m thrilled to announce investment in the SBS series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl. This important series will again strongly resonate with the local community," Screen Australia‘s documentary manager Liz Stevens said.
 
Also receiving funding will be one-off documentaries about punk band The Sunny Boys, a floating hospital that visits poor nations, ten years on from four teen mums who stayed in school, the relationship between Judith Wright and HC ‘Nugget‘ Coombs, Licence to Kill about the events that take place after police use their firearms in the line of duty and Grey Man about Australian-led raids on the Thai sex trade.