Breaking Screen

We’re joined on Breaking Screen by Vanilla Tupu, a director, writer and development manager who talks about takeaways from being in the development team at Wooden Horse; working across projects that bridge music, film and Pacific culture; and some crucial advice for any freelance creatives, but particularly emerging ones. In the music world, Vanilla has directed and produced acclaimed music videos...

We’re joined by filmmaker Josh Sambono, a Jingili man who is known for his expertise in the action and horror genres, who talks about how his early training in sound recording influenced him as filmmaker, working as a director's attachment with Taika Waititi on Thor: Love and Thunder , and how the years of effort, note-taking, small steps and seeming dead-ends all came together when he pitched to...

Award-winning screenwriter and director Yolanda Ramke joins this 'mini-break' episode of Breaking Screen - a shorter episode than usual - to talk about her methodical approach to writing Australian television and advice for writers and directors trying to get a foot in the industry.  Yolanda first found success when she wrote, and co-directed the 2013 viral short film Cargo with frequent coll...

We’re joined on Breaking Screen by Monica Zanetti - an award-winning screenwriter and director, who talks about how she shifts between working on her own IP or being a gun for hire on film and television, her writing and directing process, how being a Catherine Hardwicke fan led her to filmmaking, and why the Notes app has become a crucial part of development. Monica is the co-creator of the SBS s...

We’re joined on Breaking Screen by Charles Williams, an acclaimed Australian film director, writer, and producer, who talks about what winning the short film Palme d’Or in 2018 meant to him, how the films he grew up watching inspired his debut feature Inside , and how his work in short filmmaking prepared him when it came to directing a feature. Charles has won more than 60 international awards, i...

We’re joined on Breaking Screen by writer Melissa Lee Speyer, who talks about what her time as both a lawyer and development executive taught her about writing, how to interpret notes, her writing process, why her career path hasn’t been a linear one, and much more. Melissa's credits include episodes of television series The Heights for Matchbox Pictures and season two of Random and Whacky and for...

We’re joined on Breaking Screen by Sam Meikle, a writer and creator with hundreds of hours of produced credits that range from television comedies, dramas, animation, and web series. Sam was a co-creator, head writer, and Executive Producer of the 2022 ABC/Netflix series MaveriX and the previous year he was a writer, executive producer and co-showrunner of the series Wakefield for the ABC, BBC Stu...

This episode of Breaking Screen features Maria Lewis, a best-selling author, screenwriter, and film curator who has an Encyclopaedic knowledge of pop culture and genre specifically. After starting out as a journalist, Maria has gone on to write eleven books (including novels for Marvel and Assassin’s Creed), win an AWGIE for her podcast The Phantom Never Dies w hich was produced by Nova Entertainm...

The first episode of Breaking Screen features Yingna Lu of Spaceboy Studios, a creative producer who discusses everything from festival strategies for short films, to her advice when it comes to applying for grants and initiatives, and different takeaways from producing online series, short films, television and features. Yingna has worked across a variety of formats - on online projects including...