Out Of The Box

Hazem Shammas last year won a Logie for his role in TV show Safe Harbour, a drama which follows the story of five Australians who set out on a sailing holiday and encounter an overcrowded fishing boat of desperate asylum seekers. But it was a long trip to the podium one that goes right back to his Palestinian parents’ migration from a small village in northern Israel in the 1970s to an insurmountable challenge of being typecast as either a drug dealer or criminal on Australian screens. Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo DAM - Min Irhabi Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Farid El Atrash - El Haya Helwa The Clash - White Riot Fairuz - Ya Tayr