Showreel

Writer, producer and actor Philip McKechnie proves why having Channel 31 is so important for honing the skills of local media talent. In Censlus, showing on Channel 31 Friday Nov 25th at 7pm, McKechnie deftly reveals the comic side to the Census 2016 computer crash - the crash that had to happen. Tune in to hear how a succesful comic series grows and gets to air.

The sleepy NSW town of Dungog transformed for a third time now into a festival venue which includes the Dungog Short Film Festival with prizes across 5 categories worth $30,000. Supported by private and public groups this is an event which is putting Dungog on the international map.

The first ever Drone Film Festival Australia and New Zealand began its Australia wide screenings at ACMI on Thursday 3, 2016. Drones can have quite a negative feeling to them but this festival shows how this technology can take you to filmic places never been before.

Kythera Mon Amour is an ode to the Greeek Island Kythera. In James Pineas' film we learn about the island and its connection to Australia but also what the meaning of Homeland.

When Ros Horin decided she wanted to do a theatre piece around recovery from sexual abuse she found a group of African Ladies in Sydney who wanted to join the project. A project that became a film.

Boys in the Trees writer/ director Nicholas Verso came to chat about his magical, rite of passage film set at Holloween.

Tunnel Vision is the documentary that follows the battle to stop the East West Link. This successful community campaign was ground breaking in the push for community say in the environments we live in. We speak to Filmmaker Ivan Hexter and Producer Bessie Byrne as the film was going into the recent Environmental Film Festival.www.facebook.com/tunnelvisiondoco​link to the trailer

We chat with director Sotiris Dounoukos about his sobering true life crime film set in Canberra Joe Cinque's Consolation.

FanForce is a internet film distribution platform which is opening the door to Australian Films to Australian audiences.

Electric Shorts is a night of truly independent short films inspired and paid for by the filmmakers themselves. Electric Shorts 2016 is showing September 28th for one night only at the Loop Bar Melbourne during the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016.

Red Billabong is the brain child of writer/director Luke Sparke. It is an Australian monster film where the superhero is the black guy. Great stuff.

Little Acorns is a nine part comedy for the web set in the fertile ground of a suburban child care centre. It is financed by Screen Australia as part of its multi platform scheme. Not only is it hilarious but it's a ground breaking investment in Australian talent. Releases September 1 on a computer screen near you.

The film The Women Who Were Never There is about the 1973 women's action for jobs at Port Kembla BHP steel works. Robyn Murphy was in town to show the film and fundraise for a future feature around the landmark case for jobs for women campaign. Donations can be made on the Jobs for Women Film Project website.

Downunder is a comedy about something really unfunny - racism and the 2005 Conulla riots. Unlike the rest of Australia that just wanted to pretend it didn't happen this new comedy by writer Director Abe Forsythe uncovers the dark humour in the Australian soul. Here we chat with Abe Forsythe and one of the acting leads Lincoln Younes.

Katrina Fleming from Finer Films talks about her time in Professional Attachment in LA through the Professional Attachment Scheme at Film Victoria. Inspirational: a must listen interview.

A chat with filmmaker Lawrence Johnston about his film Fallout. Reflections on the talk given by Melissa Silverstein as the most recent recipent of the NatalieMiller Fellowship. Silverstein talks about women in Hollywood.

Award winning director Ivan Sen and his lead actor Aaron Pedersen talk about Goldstone the second installment in his series exploring Indiginous cop Jay Swan dealing with crime and emotions in the heart of Australian landscape.

Spoke the story of a woman, her bike and 5,000 miles of USA terrain will be screening at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival on Opening Night Saturday 9, July. Filmmaker Emily Baker tells us about the making of the film.

We speak to two film makers, Jeff Hann and Roland Farval, responsible for The Coffee Man screening as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

Nick Barkla's debut film behind the camera Inside Fighter will be part of the inaugural Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. MDFF is screening over three days early July (9,10 & 11) at Howlers Arts Space Brunswick. It is the only competition documentary film festival in Australia.

We speak to John Cherry co-producer of Motorkite Dreaming - a cross cutlural boys/ girls own adventure across Australia visiting 20 Aboriginal language groups. This film is having it's world premiere at the Hot Docs at Palace season showing in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra mid June.

In his feature debut Grant Scicluna has produced a disturbing but rewarding investigation of a soul seeking redemption in an Australian landscape that is at once domestic and wild. Downriver is atmosphere, compelling and cleverly devised. A film for those who love truth and are willing to work for it. Performances from Reef Ireland, Kerry Fox, Robert Taylor, and Helen Morse.

Amanda Duthie, CEO and Director of the Adelaide Film Festival talks abou the third and final Hive Fund. This innovative arts initiative brings together filmmakers and artists from the broader Australian arts community to produce in film wildly exciting co-productions.

Lawrence Johnston's latest film Neon is the first International feature highlighting the mystic and glory of the neon sign in history. From commercialism to art, happiness to film noire Neon takes us on a journey into the land where reality crosses over to dream.

Made in Melbourne Film Festival assistant director Corey Corbett and Publicist Hana Vraniqi talk about the Script to Screen Indigneous film project designed to support an indigeous writer or director getting up on screen for the 8th MIM festival.