Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 17 November
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
wheelercentre.com
In the early 2000s, prestige television shows like The Sopranos, Mad Men and The Wire heralded a new Golden Age of Television. Now, with the proliferation of streaming platforms such as Netflix, Stan and Disney+ competing to release their own original series, are we on the precipice of a new era for elevated on-screen storytelling?
Join a panel of local media creatives and programmers as they explore the ways streaming services are reflecting – and altering – our relationship to television. From the watchful, inescapable eye of the algorithm, to the impact of extended lockdowns on our home bingeing habits, are we still searching out new content or has the content started searching for us?
Tune in to hear from culture critic and host of Guardian Australia’s Saved for Later podcast Michael Sun, screenwriter and creator of All My Friends Are Racist Enoch Mailangi, and Director of Programming at Stan Australia Ben Nguyen, with host Brodie Lancaster.
Featuring
Enoch Mailangi
Enoch Mailangi is the creator/writer of five-part comedy series for ABC iview, All My Friends Are Racist and has just wrapped their debut short film with Noble Savage Pictures. Enoch is also an alumni of Sydney Theatre Company’s Emerging Writers Group and currently an Urban Theatre Project resident artist.
Their podcast Solidarity, Whatever will be available online in late October. Enoch hopes to work in television development of new works which platform voices from emerging Queer, Black and Pasifika writers.
Michael Sun
Michael Sun is a critic, essayist, and editor from China and Australia. His writing on film, music, and literature is regularly published in The Guardian, Esquire, ABC Arts, Sydney Review of Books, and Liminal Magazine, among many others ...
Ben Nguyen
Ben recently joined leading Australian streaming service Stan in July 2021 as Director of Programming within the Content team, the home of 2021 Emmy-winning Hacks and Cannes Best Actor winner Stan Original Film Nitram.
Previously he had been SBS from 2008, starting in documentary acquisitions before moving to the Channel Manager role in 2014. Here he worked across programming and acquisitions for multiple channels, and helped manage SBS’s transition from analogue to digital, and from linear broadcast to online streaming with the growth of SBS On Demand. During this time he oversaw the successful launches of shows ranging from The Handmaid’s Tale and Atlanta, to Ninja Warrior and If You Are The One. As someone passionate about the diversity of stories on Australian screens, Ben has supported voices from underrepresented groups throughout his career.
Brodie Lancaster
Brodie Lancaster is an author and essayist from Melbourne. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Vogue Australia, the Guardian and New York magazine. Her first book, the pop culture memoir ...