| Genre: | Thriller |
| Director: | Glendyn Ivin |
| Composer: | Stephen Rae |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 4 |
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| Editor: | Mark Atkin |
| Cinematography: | Sam Chiplin |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Company: | Matchbox Pictures |
| Channel: | SBS |
Safe Harbour is a four-part Australian thriller drama series first broadcast on SBS on 7 March 2018. The series follows a group of friends who travel from Brisbane on a sailing holiday of a lifetime to Indonesia, who cross paths with a fishing boat overloaded with asylum seekers en route to Australia, which alters their lives forever.
It is made by Matchbox Pictures, directed by Glendyn Ivin and written by Belinda Chayko, Matt Cameron and Phil Enchelmaier, and based on an original idea of Enchelmaier and Simon Kennedy. The series was produced Stephen Corvini, with Sue Masters as executive producer.[1]
The series was first broadcast in Australia on SBS on 7 March 2018.
Outside Australia, the series was made available for streaming on Hulu in the United States, and was broadcast on BBC Four in the United Kingdom from 2 February 2019.[2] The series was released on Region 4 DVD on 18 April 2018.[3] It aired on television in Ireland on RTÉ2 from July 2019.
Luke Buckmaster of Guardian Australia described the series as "deeply compelling". Mama Mia's entertainment editor Laura Brodnik praised the series, claiming that it left viewers asking one nagging question: "What would you do?".
Wenlei Ma of news.com.au described the series as "unmissable", writing; "When Australian TV is seemingly filled, wall-to-wall, with one same-same reality franchise after another, it can be hard to find quality Australian stories that offer you something new. This is one, and you best not miss it."
The show won an International Emmy in 2019 for Best TV Movie or Miniseries.[4] [5]