Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 RAN : Remote Area Nurse: SBS Protocols, Grassroots Collaboration and the Quality Miniseries
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'RAN: Remote Area Nurse is a six-part mini-series first broadcast on the Australian Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in 2006. Described by co-producer Penny Chapman as ‘the first screen fiction set in Torres Strait islander [sic] culture’, the series is loosely based on the work of the health centre on Masig, a tiny island in the central group of Torres Strait Islands. This article traces the working modes of the largely non-Islander production team, as they followed the guidelines and strategies laid out in SBS’s ‘The Greater Perspective: Protocol for the Production of Film and Television on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities’ (1997). In light of interplay between protocol and the production team, the article explores how a modally conventional mini-series nevertheless successfully made space for Islander collaboration, and attracted online engagement and approval from both Torres Strait Islanders and others.' (Author's abstract)

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201-213 RAN : Remote Area Nurse: SBS Protocols, Grassroots Collaboration and the Quality Miniseriessmall AustLit logo Studies in Australasian Cinema
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  • RAN Alice Addison , John Alsop , Sue Smith , 2006 series - publisher film/TV
  • Torres Strait Islands, Queensland,
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