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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.

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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.

We chat with Ro Bright,  CEO TILDE and featured filmakers Ada Tzinis and Izzie Harris. TILDE runs from May 1-9 across community spaces, venues and cinemas featuring features, shorts, panels and the drive in. Check out the programme here.

We chat with filmmaker Ian Darling about his sessions at the Sorrento Writers' Festival around the importance of Australian stories.

We chat with writer/ director  about his film Alphabet Lane. Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Nicholas Denton this darkly comic film takes by the hand and leads us into the isolation ot the Australian rural landscape. Opens in cinemas on 23 April but you can meet the filmmaker at Nova on the 19th at 4pm.

First up a chat with Nathalie Abbott about her leading role in The Deb here. The film completed in 2024 is Rebel Wilson's directorial debut. It brings an all singing and dancing cast to rural Australia with a coming of age story at the centre of it. We follow with a chat with filmmaker Fiona Cochrane here and her new film Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior premiering at ACMI as part of the Comedy Festiv...

We chat with dancer Conor Bann-Murray, a member of  Brent Street, who is one of the featured dancers in Luke Cornish's Dance for Your Life given the opportunity to go to London to audition for a place at Dean Lee's dance company Shapehaus. Dance for Your Life takes us just a step further in exploring the dance industry from the hit series Dance Life.

We go to a Q&A held at Cinema Nova between Flick Ford and Director/ co writer of Jimpa Sophie Hyde & actors Aud Mason-Hyde and Daniel Henshall. The film is showing at Nova.

The Melbourne Women's Film Festival is 10 years old with a bumper festival running from March 19-23. Premiere features, shorts, documentaries, panels and industry networking. We talk with Festival Director Sian Mitchell.

We chat with filmmaker Kasimir Burgess about Iron Winter, a chronicle that takes us into Mongolia's Tsakhir Valley, following the exploits of Batbold, 18, and his friend Tsaaganna, entrusted with safeguarding a herd of 3,000 horses during the deadliest winter on record. It is a coming of age tradition which has been in process for 100s, if not, a thousand years. With climate change everything is a...

We chat with Dave Klaiber Director and creator/producort Will Alexander, founder of independent creative studio Heckler, about their film Truth South which documents the emotional journey of the Winning and Dean families as they join in sailing the Sydney to Hobart 25 years after the death of 6 sailors, including John Dean, in the 1998 race. The film is in cinemas from 5th March and on Netflix.

We chat with writer Jem Splitter and actor Page Joy Ryans about Displaced a six part web series also screening on Channel 31 Wednesdays at 9pm March 4/11/. If you missed out on first two episodes tune into YouTube. A rollicking yarn built around Aa depressed, dysfunctional physicist accidentally sent back in time tries to fix her future by mentoring her troubled 14-year-old self. Lots of laughs an...

We chat with filmmaker Jordan Giusti about Floodland a film which documents the personal stories of the Lismore floods from 2022. Floodland, a deeply moving story of love, loss, and land, is screening at Nova on Wed 25th Feb at 6:30pm. The film focus' on community response. The screening will be followed by a Q&A featuring the director and key participants in the film.

Filmmaker James Richetson gives a first hand account of the police riot on Feb 9th in Sydney. The peacful demonstration was calling out the NSW & Federal Governments' invitation to Israeli PM Herzog into Australia, despite the arrest warrant from the Hague for incitment of genocide.  

If there are just two films you watch to understand the travesty of the NT and Queensland situation when it comes to fracking then Rachel O'Reilly's films Infraction and Northern Waters are the ones. We speak to the filmmaker about these important pieces of works that outline the stuggle for the future of the environment and first nations voice. Northern Waters is showing at Coral Futures at Linde...

Today we are chatting to expatriates Sarah Jayne Portelli and Ivan Malekin about their film After the Act. As with all their films After the Act is squarely rooted in traditions of arthouse and slow cinema with a strong dash of observational intimacy. They are back in town and are screening After the Act at our very own Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood at 7pm tonight the 11th of December. There will...

Tristan and Timothy Kenyon whose film Changing Track focusing on the paralympic cycling team which has done a national Q&A screenings over the last month with a national release on Dec 3 to celebrate  International Disability Day. This interview explores the filmmaking process the two brothers took to make the film.

Today we chat with screenwriter/ filmmaker Nandita Chakraborty about Shared Table: Regional Heroes which brings the stories of people from diverse and refugee backgrounds who have made rural destinations their home. The CALD Community Voices are holding a red carpet premiere at Hoyts, Melbourne Central 2 Dec, 6pm.