Skin In The Game on SBS and SBS on Demand – Marlee Silva, proud Gamilaroi and Dunghutti woman, rising sports commentator and rugby league royalty reveals the real story behind Australia’s most loved sport in Skin in the Game, a deeply personal, high stakes reckoning about the future of NRL and who we are as a nation.
In this intimate documentary, Marlee, a self-proclaimed rugby league ‘tragic’, daughter of all-time great of the sport, “Rocket” Rod Silva, investigates the positive power of rugby to shape us as a nation: where we’ve been, how far we’ve come and where we need to go.
Growing up living and breathing the sport, Marlee knows the power of rugby league to transform lives – but she also knows that it can hold a mirror to some ugly truths, especially when it comes to women and violence.
Against a rising tide of domestic and family violence in Australia, where one woman a week is killed by a current or former partner; and one in four experiences violence at the hands of someone they know, Marlee examines what the sport she loves can do to be part of the solution.
Skin in the Game provides unparalleled access to the players, their fans and families, as well as the sport’s leading influencers including rugby league broadcaster and former player and coach Phil Gould, NRL superstar Nicho Hynes, NRL Chairman Peter V’landys AM, NRLW player Lavinia Gould, former Chair of the West Tigers Rugby League Club Marina Go AM and Marlee’s father, rugby league legend, ‘Rocket’ Rod Silva.
Skin In The Game on SBS and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Simulcasts Sunday 23 March at 8.30pm
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Skin In The Game on SBS and SBS on Demand
