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Today I have the absolute pleasure to talk with Amanda Brown about winning three gongs at the recent AACTA Awards for her music scores for three different pieces of work Baby Teeth, Brazen Hussies, and The Secrets She Keeps. Here we go.

Filmmakers are using their skills to raise awareness of vital battles for social and ecological justice. This year the Bob Brown Foundation has released a new film tracking the defence of the Tarkine in Tasmania which is experiencing a new Government auspiced attack on it's ancient forests. They used a Youtube launch recently to raise awareness and to increase membership for the defense called For...

Director and writer, Kate Lefoe and Producer Hayley Adams have launched a crowdfunding campaign to start production of the first two episodes of Wicked Women a dramatic webseries chronicling the rise and rise of the magazine during the 80's.

Today we feature The Flood a film showing in this year's Fanforce Virtual Indigenous Film Festival. We talk to Victoria Wharfe-McIntyre and Justine Brown-McLeod. FanForce's Virtual Indigeous Film Festival 2020 runs through NAIDOC week screening 5 powerful films each night of the week, celebrating the rich heritage of Australia's First Nation Peoples. Each screening will features LIVE Q&As, with an...

During Covid  Screen Producers Australia or SPA for short was running what they called SPA Takeaways online to support the industry professionals keep in touch and giving tips on negotiating the rocky road for the industry during covid. They ran their last online event recently and it was an interview between SPA CEO Matthew Deaner and Australian veteran actor Jack Thompson. It gives a real sense...

Today we are going to look at the work of filmmaker Rory McLeod who is using his filmmaking to bring the issues of the health of the Barka Darling River system to public attention. You may remember his recent documentary When the River Runs Dry. Rory has been following the People's Tribunal into the health of the river system. The Tribunal recently released it's report which encompasses the voices...

An exerpt from a presentaiton by Robyn McNicholas from Marshmellow Laser Fest an XR producer at this years Australia International Documentary Conference. It gives an insight into the burgeoning immersive tech industry which affects our media future and is riding the back of the new cultural literacies inspired by the net. We open with introductions and will go on to an example of what this early...

Last week the Federal Communicatons Minsiter Paul Fletcher announced that his government was abolishing the Free to Air quotas for children's television without any corresponding legislation for streamers or other adjustments. I spoke to David Gurney from Blue Rocket Productions for an understanding of the new policy and what it means to Australian Children's Television Production.

Today we are talking with Alex Chew and Alicia Easaw-Mamutil who have just finished at the AFTRS Australian film television and Radio School in Sydney. Their  short film The End and the Beginning was their final project and has been accepted into several international film festivals. They give us an idea of how a filmmaker can learn their skills and get a result by going this path of study.

The Australian Writer's Guild has just announced it's nominee's for the 53rd Annual AWGIE Awardsthe awards that celebrate the work of writers in screen and stage in Australia. It is all happening on December 8th. Now one of the nominees in the feature category is C.S. McMullen’s debut feature The Other Lamb. Now at Showreel we were lucky enough to talk with C.S. McMullen about writing with some re...

Christian Gibson talks to us about his film Pacifica - a jpurney of a lifetime.

We talk to Luke Eve and Maria Albiñana about their Facebook web series Cancelled made in their flat in Spain during covid hard lockdown.

Ian Darling - director and producer  with Sally Fryer - editor of The Final Quarter speaking at AIDC 2020

We talk to French animateur Elea Gobbe-Mevellec about  her film Swallows of Kabul. We follow this with a chat with NIDA allumni Melissa Kahraman who received the Leslie Walford AM Award in her final year to help realise her project aiming to bring her Turkish Australian experience to the screen.

We are talking to Lucie and Emmett from Too Much World who have started a film making collective on the principle that if you have a story to tell and you want equipment and help then they can offer both in your endeavour to be resourcful filmmakers beginning your filmmaking journey. The aim to rectify the balance between slick mega buck productions and hand made low finance productions. 

Larissa Behrendt is a Eualeyai/ Kamillaroi woman a legal academic, author and film maker. We are talking to her today about the making of Maralinga Tjarutja. This film brings the voice of the Maralinga Tjarutja people to centre stage as they work not to be defined by the displacement and ecposure to the nuclear tests between 1953-63 but by millenia of being in-country where culture knowledge and c...

The Melbourne WebFest 2020 showing online Sept 4-6 is ready for business with tickets on sale and the 5th Annunal Pitch iView event open for contestants to put their pitches for webseries in. We speak to Festival Director Lauren Colosimo.

Creativity in Confinement is a film production produced by young women and non binary folk from scratch guided by experienced filmmakers. I got to speak to Hannah Moore who was one of the mentors about the project part of the Melbourne City Council's SIGNAL project.

Anthony Snowden is a chronicler of street level dissent. His Youtube channel Box4 has recently received attention because of his immediate coverage of the Flemington Flats lockdown in Melbourne during Covid-19. Anthony gives us an idea of what he is doing and how to do it.

Director Ili Bare talks to us about her film The Leadership 76 STEMM scientists in pursuit of job equality on a ship to Antartica.and a better world future.

 MQFF's Spiro Economopoulos Festival Director  with info about the Melbourne Queer Film Festival online and later MIFF, the Melbourne International Film Festival has just released its program for the upcoming  68 1/2 festival starting on August 6 to the 23. 

Amelia Hine, video artist talks about her work Metamorphosis and the video art platform Prototype.

Today we talk to director Jo Samuels about The Legend of Five and Roger Unger about his film The Wheels of Wonder. We go out with a new release from Victorian Band This Way North.

The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival starts online June 30 - July 15th. Today we feature two of the films part of the official selection Leaving Allen Street & Strangers to the World.

The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is back with a virtual festival from 30 June - 15 July. Over the next three weeks we will bring you voices of the filmmakers with films on the MDFF program. This week we hear from Alex Michael maker of More than a Mile and Joshua Belinfante with his delightful film The World's Best Movie.