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We talk to auteur filmmaker Saidin Salkic about his latest film My Heart Bled Like Niagara Falls which focuses on the experiences of a man (John Flaus) with the on-set of Alzheimer's disease. The themes and process of the film are discussed further in Sense of Cinema.

Today we chat with Jocelyn Moorhouse about her new lots of fun film The Fabulous 4 starring Bette Midler and Susan Sarandon now in cinemas tickets. We follow-up with local documentary The Posh & The Riff Raff which delves into the history of St Kilda - screening Sunday Aug 4th, 12pm at the Nova Carlton.

We continue to chat with filmmakers who have their films showing at this years in Theatre MDFF at the Nova Cinema. DREAMWEAVERS – GIDJA WALKER (Dir: Heather Forbes McKeon, Yanni Dellaportas, 21m) is showing as part of Shorts Session 7Sunday July 28th 4:20pm. We speak with co-director Heather Fobes McKeon here about this profile of Gidja Walker, a Mornington Peninsula based ecologist and ethnobotan...

Continuing our coverage of films at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF).We chat with David Holmgren here, who is featured in the film Reading the Landscape. David Homgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept, and Reading the Landscape takes us on a journey through key regenerative methods for a healthy ecological future. Then a conversation with the director Orit Novak and her co-...

We talk with filmmaker Darcy Newton about his film Claptrap documenting the longest across Australia tour for a rock band as he follows Kingswood for over 100 tour dates. Screening at the upcoming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) on July 25th.

We are continuing to chat with filmmakers who are screening films at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2024 (MDFF).We chat with Braydon Pope here about his music biopic short Gabriel Lynch: Where I am Going Next We chat with Jye Currie here about his film The Promise At its core, THE PROMISE delves into the depths of hope and human resilience, offering an intimate exploration of the challenges f...

Blak Douglas vs the Commonwealth directed by Angelica Cristina Dio, will open the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) this year. Archibald Prize winning artist Blak Douglas' uncompromising view of colonization and the affect it had on his family.

#3cr Radiothon this week Grand Total for station $275,000 & Showreel needs to raise $900 Donate hereToday's program features a chat with Cerise Howard about MQFF Pride Month Screenings. 

We chat with John Hewison from Dogmilk Films Collective about the two nights they are screening for the St Kilda Film Festival:Dogmilk: Expanded Sunday, June 9th 6:00 - 7:00 pmDogmilk: Collection 2 Sunday 16th 5:30 - 7:00 pmLocationAlex Theatre Studio - 1/135 Fitzroy St, St Kilda VIC 3182 

Freyja Gillard, EFFA  Festival Co-Director, joins us with film maker Le  Luo, whoes film Outpicker features in the one day program of shorts, features and panel discussions at ACMI on June 1. From the tops of Mt Kosciuszko and all the way down to Bruny Island, EFFA presents: Home Grown sharing distinctly Australian perspectives on the environment here. Susie Hamilton, from the Australian Writers'...

During Reconciliation Week the award winning documentary Ḻuku Ngärra: The Law of the Land will be running screenings across the country with the Melbourne screening at the Nova Cinema in Carlton on Friday 31st at 6:30pm with Q&A featuring the filmmaker Sinem Saban and special guest Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Gunai Nation) in attendance. Sinem Saban joins us today to talk about her film which gives voice...

We chat with St Kilda Film Festival Director Richard Sowada about the upcoming SKFF 40th Festival which continues the love affair with film, short and long form 6th - 16th June.

We  hear a snippet from a Sustainable Film and Television Panel held during  Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) in collaboration with ATOM - Australian Teachers of Media. It includes information from Sustainable Screen Australia as well as the lived experience of filmmakers behind the short documentary The Oyster Gardener.

Lucie McMahon (Director and Producer) & Celeste De Clario (DOP and Producer) talk to me about their documentary Things Will Be Different. It covers the experiences of two residents at the Walker Estate in Northcote, as they are being evicted - the Walker Estate  was demolished by the State Government, removing it out of public housing into the Government's new renewal program of developer lead hou...

Today we chat with Mushroom Studios' Chief Operating Officer Bethany Jones here. Mushroom Studios' has been producing and distributing independent content for 30 years, starting with Chopper, including miniseries Molly and now a new film following the journey of an Afghani translator as she tries to settle into working class Freemont USA. Committed to independent and interesting Mushroom Studios i...

We talk with director Tom Haramis about his new documentary feature Fight to Live which takes us into the life of Australian UFC and Bare Knuckle Fighting champion and domestic abuse survivor “Rowdy” Bec Rawlings. Fight to Live is one of the Australian features screening at this years Setting Sun Film Festival.

We chat with writer/director/ actor John Jarrett about his new film What about Sal? which focuses on the question what happens to a person with down syndrome when their parents die. A rousing, domestic drama starring Gerard O' Dywer supported by a great cast of actors is a truly life affirming film. Catch it in its first week to support Australia film.

We talk with Lucy Nelson from AWG and last years winner of the short form Emerging Writers' Award, Kayti Murphy about how useful entering the award is for aspiring screen writers.

Today we are going to the last night of the Melbourne Women's Film Festival. Jeni Thornley's film Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary was the final film of the festival. It is a mediative film cafted from Thornley's visual diary made up of super 8. It was commissioned by the Australian Film and Sound Archive. Here is the q&a after the film screening with Jeni Thornley. 

We chat with Greg Dolgopolov, co-curator of the Inner West Film Festival running from 11-21 April. In it's second year this festival gives opportunities for an electic program which hosts the work of local Western Sydney creatives while digging deep to the past and present of different world cinemas. Greg gives and insight into why a festival and why it is important for local film makers. launchin...

We chat with Jonathan Page from Bonsai Films about their work as Executive Producer/ Producer & Distributor of some of Australia's best indi films. 

MWFF Festival Director Sian Mitchell with program details for the Festival running from March 21-25 at ACMIHightlights include: Jazz Money's WINHANGANHA, Margot Nash's Undercurrents and closing nights Memory Film: a Filmmaker's Diary by Jeni Thornley

We chat with the makers of Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) Matthew Thorne & Derik Lynch here. The film won a Silver Bear (Short) at the 73th Berlin Film Festival and is showing as part of the AIDC's public screening program during the AIDC Conference 3-6 March at ACMI.We have a quick word with Jo-Anne Brechin here, director of One Perfect Match releasing in cinemas on Feb 29th after opening...

Film culture in Melbourne has been given a boost by the Best Films You've Never Seen Program screening at The Capitol. We chat with RMIT Cinema Studies Lecturers  Adrian Danks, and Alexia Kannas about the choices they have made for the Feb 28th sessions Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter.

We hear exerpts from the Documentary Australia launch of the Wellbeing Documentary Guide  featuring Dr Mitzi Goldman Documentary Australia and filmmaker, Dr Rebecca Barry filmmaker, Akhim Dev - filmaker and Ben Steele Screen Well & Filmmaker. The Guide has been produced by Screen Well with support from SANE Australia and the film industry, as the stresses facing Documentary filmmakers is recognise...