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We join the hurrah around the Olympics in Japan with a mocumendarty series screening on the ABC called The Power of the The Dream. The brain child of Alexandra Keddie and Bobbie-Jean Henning the series follows “cousin-best-friends” Amy and Brooke Bland as they trial various Olympic sports to see which one will take them all the way to the podium. All six episodes of The Power of the Dream will lau...

We look at Sarah Marcuson's short film A Holy Duty which explores the work of the volunteer organisation “Chevra Kadisha”, or “Sacred Society” which cares for the dead in the Jewish religion. We follow with a chat with Nick Barkla about his film The Healing which is the opening film at the upcoming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. When you bring damaged, left over race horses and struggling ex...

We profile two films which will be screened at the Nova during MDFF between July 21 - 32.Roger Unger talks about his documentary feature Finding Creativity. Christian Berzi talks about making of his documentary Inner Portrait a profile of photographic artist R J Poole, who formerly served in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS).

We chat with film makers Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo about their film Harbour Lights. This is followed with a chat with Yau-Ming about his short film The Last Typewriter Shop in Melbourne. Both films will be showing at the next Melbourne Documentary Film Festival running over 10 days in July - July 21 - 31 at Nova Cinema.

And today we talk with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo about their company Wind & Sky - a production house located in Ballarat which specialises in short form documentaries.

Today we hear from Kathie Mayer about her work as a voice coach to actors at Flexible Voice. We follow with a small exerpt from the Australian International Documentary Conference that happened earlier in the year. It is a part of a much longer chat with documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney.  AIDC website is a fantastic resource for people who make and watch documentaries. They have monthly scenings...

My Name is David Gulpilil will be the last film from the legendary David Gulpilil. He worked with three of his long time collaborators to create this good bye letter to us and I spoke to one of them Molly Reynolds about the film in cinemas this month.

 Last look at the MDFF's Shorts Focus Sessions at the Nova Cinema on Sunday May 23.First up is Derek Ho whoes film A Thousand Words Unspoken is showing in the Fourth Session at 5.40pm. Chouwa Liang's film Intimate Strangers is a beautifully crafted film showing in session 2 of the MDFF focus on film on Sunday May 23 at the Nova at 1:10.

Today we talk with filmmaker Jamie Wilson about his film Burgermen screening on May 23 at the Nova as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival's Focus on Shorts.

Short Film Focus as part of the MDFF screenings at the Nova on May 23 will be screening 5 Sessions of short films. Today we feature two of those films and their filmmakers. Out of The Closets, into the streets takes us back to 1970s Melbourne when a group of students made a stand for gay pride at a time when homosexuality was criminalised and discrimination and abuse was wide spread. More than 40...

We talk with Stephen Curry about June Again starring Noni Hazelhurst and Claudia Kavan and himself of course. In cinemas May 6. Then we chat with Susanna Duffy who explains her recent adventures in making virtual tours which take international guests on a tour of Melbourne from their armchairs. What is involved?

We speak to the filmmaker and the subject of Rosemary's Way the ultimate social development film.

We talk to Michelle Joy about a series of films exploring the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers is premiering on the 27th April during Melbourne Knowledge Week at the State Library Victoria. Each of the films in the RESPOND series is a unique collaboration between a healthcare worker responding to COVID-19, and a filmmaker in isolation because of it. The result is eight very different, but...

We are talking with Director Luke Eve who is holed up in Spain but is finally getting a release of his pre covid movie I Met a Girl. It is now out on Netflix Australia New Zealand.

I have a couple of interesting tidbits for you today. First up I spoke to James Mathers from the Digital Cinema Society and then chatted with Alicia Brown, Film Victoria’s Production Investment Manager, about a project called Originate which in their words is designed to accelerate the development of a slate of creative-led fiction features, turning early draft scripts into production-ready screen...

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival returns with a monthly series of the best docos from their past season. They are showing at the Nova in Carlton with two programs of five films showing on the Nova site the first is for this Sunday March 28th followed by five more on 18th of April. And true to the allure of documentaries the stories told are magnificant in their range. Today we are going back in...

First up is  Steve Jaggi from  a Queensland Production company who has been working busily despite covid and is releasing Kidnapped through Village cinemas. We follow this with a chat with Grace Truman who is the star of a web series called Amazing Grace which is going into its second season called Graceful, amazing grace series 2. It started when she was 1o now she is 16 high production values, h...

Today we are catching up with Anna Bourozikas from the Setting Sun Film Festival.  We follow up with a chat with Bonny Scott, producer of the short doc Why did she have to tell the world? showing this Saturday March 13th and the following Friday at Nova as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and also on TV on Sunday March 14 on ABC's Compass programme. 

Today on Showreel we are talking to filmmaker Nik Kacevski whose short film Soulmate has just had it's global premiere on Premium platform Film Shortage. Nik was great to talk to generous with his time talking about his filmmaking adventure.

ACMI - reopened last week after a massive rejiging that has taken several years and $40 million dollars. And since ACMI is billed as Your museum of screen culture I spoke to Kristy Matheson ACMI Director of Film at ACMI for some information about the upgrade.

Charby Ibrahim's short film Bright Lights - the Perils of the Pokies is now showing on the Guardian Documentary Online service check it out here. I had word with him about the film, the topic and getting to viewers throught the Guardian service.

Today two films: Unsound & A Small Punch in a Little Town. Film director Ian Watson talks to me first about a little gem of a film called Unsound which is coming to screens around now. It has a romance as it's central plot but there is much more to this film set in Sydney with a young musician drawn to a relationship with a deaf dj. The second film by Luke Robson called A Small Punch in a Little T...

Ocean to the Sky is a documentary of an expedition of Sir Edmund Hillary or Ed as they call him and friends going against the current of the Ganges in India to its beginnings in the mountains using power boats a new New Zealand invention at the time. This all took place in 1977.

This week we are featuring a chat with filmmaker Sally Ingleton who is just about to launch her documentary Wild Things. It is a bout front line defenders of the environment in Australia. It is opening on February 4th with some special events which Sally talks about at the end of our chat. 

Occupation: Rainfall a sci fi melodrama with high octane effects and masterful laying of plot and character like seams of gold in the rock of CGI. It is a truly impressive film. In today's program we get to chat with director editor Luke Sparke a man on a mission. Here goes.