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5 Oct 2016

Deep Water on SBS and VAC’s SGM

History, News & Politics, Society & Culture

Deep Water on SBS and VAC’s SGM

deep-water-sbsTrue crimes of the past rise to the surface as SBS launches the network event Deep Water, unearthing a gripping true crime story and a buried chapter of Australia’s recent history.

Deep Water: the drama

In the 1980s and 1990s a wave of murders bloodied the idyllic coastline of Sydney’s eastern suburbs. There were 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases and thousands of assaults. The victims: young homosexual men.

Deep Water is SBS’s new four-part drama series inspired by these true events, recontextualised to be set in contemporary Bondi, and featuring a stellar cast of Australian actors.  Tonight on The Informer Dean Beck speaks to on of the writers of the drama, Kris Wyld, ahead of tonight’s premiere on SBS at 8.30pm.

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Deep Water: the real story

Disturbing gang assaults were being carried out on coastal cliffs around Sydney, and mysterious deaths officially recorded as ‘suicide’, ‘disappearance’ and ‘misadventure’.  Deep Water: The Real Story is a stunning feature-length documentary premiering Sunday October 16 at 8.30pm on SBS, in which individual stories are woven together by emotional first-person interviews and detailed re-enactments, piecing together the facts of these unsolved cases, decades later.

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Deep Water: Online Investigations

Features in-depth extras around the Deep Water drama and Deep Water – The Real Story; with behind-the-scenes videos of the drama, including cast and crew interviews; sneak-peek extras; deleted scenes from the drama and a photo-gallery showcasing Bondi Beach.

Deep Water: True Stories Series 3

SBS Podcasts – True Stories returns with Season Three: a special five-part investigation into the untold true stories of Adelaide’s gay-hate murders, told by award-winning Australian journalist, Mark Whittaker. The series is adapted from Mark’s true crime long-read which will be published online at the end of the series.

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