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We chat with film director Claudia Zombucha! about the Australian comedy-horror film Zombucha!, starring Emma Leonard and Ryan O'Kane. Special Melbourbne screenings Thursday Nov 12th Sun Theatre in Yarraville or Friday 13th Nov at Lido in Hawthorn. 

Director Anthony Maras talks to us about his new film Pressure ,starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser. Pressure takes us into the tension leading up to the D Day Landing that ended World War 2 in Europe. In cinemas now.

 A chat with filmmaker Samuel Lucas Allen about his short Misery and Other Choices showing at the Environmental Film Festival on the 28th Oct at the Kino.

We chat with experimental filmmaker Saidin Salkic. Saidin has just finished his 40th film entitled 21st Century Monster which follows close on the heels of his 39th film Hindenburg of the Mind.  21st Century Monster is screening Saturday 17th of October at the Performance Space, Level 2 Library at the Dock 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands doors open at 4:45 with the film starting 5pn shar...

We chat with some of the creative team behind the new eleven part Australian drama tailored for vertical formats Dustlands. Writers/actors/producers Jack Hayes & Isobel Kilmartin with director Finegan Sampson are on the couch. Catch new episodes Sunday. Watch: DUSTLANDS Official TrailerInstagram TikTokFacebookYouTube ShortYouTube (Full Frame) 

Auteur filmmaker Saara Lamberg was our guest at Showreel 3CR Radical RadioHear about the Rainbow Popcorn Origins Series, Hush Darling, CAMP THERAPY and Boys Don't Cry. And book to see the screening Sunday Oct 4th at Eclipse Cinema at 3.30pm  (discount code: SAARA)https://events.humanitix.com/queer-origins/tickets 

A small taster of a larger chat:First Nations Women’s Voices: Stories of matriarchy for systems changeDocumentary Australia's Master Classes Wiradyuri, Ngemba and Paakantji woman and Common Ground CEO Gemma Pol moderated an enriching discussion with Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute Chair, June Oscar AO; Arrernte and Kalkadoon filmmaker and Screen Australia Director of First Nations Strategy, Rachel...

Melbourne filmmaker Zoe Coldham talks to us about her new project Fitzroy : A History of Protest & Activism. Following her short documentary Gore Street, Fitzroy (2025), Zoe is now developing her first feature documentary, Fitzroy: A History of Protest and Activism. The film widens the lens from Gore Street to Fitzroy as a whole, looking at the suburb’s history of activism and collective action an...

We chat with Santilla Chingaipe the host of the new Tastes of Africa webseries screening on YouTube. Tastes of Africa, a 3 x 15-minute series takes viewers to home kitchens and hidden eateries across Melbourne’s African-Australian community, launched on YouTube on August 31.  

We chat with Vee Shi about his award winning film Time & Tide and the announcement as this year's  recipient of the Screen Presence Trailblazer Award 2026, given by the thriving screen initiative to an Asian Australian trailblazer who is redefining the landscape of the film industry.  Film producer Lisa Wang joins us to talk about the award.

Today an exerpt from a Documentary Australia Masterclass about impact and distribution given by Dr Mitzi Goldman and Chris Kamen. Documentary Australia has a load of great material for film makers on their filmmaking journeys. 

We speak with Alix Livingstone from Defend the Wild about a Film night & panel discussion St Kilda Town Hall Friday Aug 14th hereDefend the Wild and Dingo Culture teamed with The Dingo Conservancy to showMoort Calling Dingo Back to Country & Landholders for Dingos’ film Wooleen: Utilising Dingoes as a Management ToolWe follow with a piece from the filmmaker Dan Jackson chat after the premiere scre...

We talk with filmmakers with premieres at MIFF.Digby & Camille is a love story between two people with down syndrome - it is a fight for agency & a genuinely feel good story. We chat with filmmaker and star of the film Digby Webster & his side kick Trevor Graham here. Martin McKenna's film Wilderness takes us on a personal journey of grief that ties to a greater understanding of climate grief as h...

Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is about to start. We chat with filmmaker James Hunter and actor Lucy Lovegrove about The Latcher which is premiering at MIFF. MIFF screenings:   Saturday August 8 @ 9pm (Kino 2) //  Sunday August 9 @ 6.30pm (Kino 2) 

Today I chatted with James Woods about his first feature The Birthday Trip a fine tuned satire that is in select theatres in the coming months. 

I spoke with filmmaker Gena Lida Riess here about her film Dead Parents Club an APHIDS production captured on screen. The film is showing as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) Friday 17th July @ 6:40pm. We follow with a chat with documentarian Pippa Samaya here who followed Dancenorth on tour, building community and embracing reconciliation in Wide Horizons. 

We chat with Mitchell Mansfield Smith and cinematographer Nftaly Njoroge here about their film Grip is Dead being screened as part of Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) as part of a session called Sports Shorts on July 8th at Cinema Nova. Chloe Taylor talks here to us about her short Reunion screening 1pm Saturday 11th July at Cinema Nova . 

Today we are looking at two more of the films playing at the up-coming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF). First up we chat with Andy Evans here about his film Planet Sun screening at Nova on opening night 7th July 6.30pm. Secondly Matt Love here, first time film maker talks about his film Bleeding the Demon screening on July 8th at 5:50pm at Nova.

We talk to filmmaker Nicola Macindoe about her film Somewhere After which is screening as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (mdff) at the Nova in Carlton on July 18th at 3:30pm. Somewhere After explores with 10 participants the experience of covid lock-down during and then 3 years later.

Showreel RADIOTHON Showhighlights some of the great Australian talent in the film and moving image world we have covered since the last Radiothon calling for donations to keep 3cr going. Donate to Showreel's part of the 3cr $300,000 grand total here only $176 to go for Showreel's $1100 contribution.

Today we are chatting with filmmaker Guy Wilkinson and the subject of his most recent documentary In the Making: Human Fly Magazine Gabriel Olivier Hernanadez. The film is screening at the upcoming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) on-line from 1st-31st of July and in cinema nova from 7th to 19th July. Guy is all about the artist spirit and Gabriel's zine is a homage to the wild side of r...

Over the next few weeks we will be chatting with filmmakers being featured at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2026 (MDFF2026) running online 1-31st July and in cinema 7th-19th July at Cinema Nova. Sean Dobra here talks to us about his film from Depression with Love. Zev Howley here talks to us about his UFO focused film The Man Who Saw Them Arrive. 

We chat with independent filmmaker Mark Lipkin about his new film Pelverata. Mark will be at the Eclipse Cinema on Friday 22 May for a screening and Q&A session at 7:30pm.

We chat with producer David Jowsey, from Bunya Films, about Warrick Thornton's most recent film Wolfram in cinemas now.

First up a chat I had with Andrew Wilkie from the Queer Screen Film Fest in Sydney. Andrew is the Programming and Industry Manager for the Festival and they spoke to me about the Emerging Narrative Feature Film Competition with a deadline of May the 24th. Second up is a chat with David Field and Stephen Dupont about The Half Barbaric Twangfeaturing The Number 4 Band on the Gimme Back Me Dog Tour.