[3] From 1998 – 2008 Atkin was a commissioning editor for TV and online at Australia's Special Broadcasting Service, where he worked to bring Taxi to the Dark Side and Waltz with Bashir to screens.

[4] One was Digging for Grandad's Gold, in which Atkin journeys to Poland in search of valuables that his Jewish grandfather buried on the family property in 1939 before fleeing from the German invasion.

[7] While in Sheffield Atkin also collaborated with Doc/Fest's director Heather Croall and Frank Boyd of Unexpected Media to create the film production company Crossover.

In 2013 Atkin co-developed Animal Planet's Walking the Nile for Channel 4 in his role as multiplatform commissioning editor.

[10] In 2015 Atkin was the acting director of the Sheffield Doc/Fest, and in 2015 and 2016 he curated the virtual reality section of the festival.