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We chat with writer/ director Mark Leonard Winter about his debut feature The Rooster starring Hugo Weaving and Pheonix Raei and featuring Rhys Mitchell (Cake, Upper Middle Bogan), John Waters (Offspring, Mystery Road), Robert Menzies (Little Tornadoes, Glitch) Tom Stokes (The Railway Man, Warnie), Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries) a...

We speak with curator of Screams on Screen at the Capitol,  Dr. Jess Babanzategui. SCREAMS ON SCREEN16-17 February, The CapitolOver two heart-stopping nights, celebrate the rebellious forces that fuel the horror genre with music, art, films and director talks. Featuring David Lynch’s early shorts, a 10th-anniversary screening of 'The Babadook' (2014), the first Iranian Vampire Western, 'A Girl Wal...

Filmmaker Saara Lamberg tells us about her new feature The Lies We Tell Ourselves screening at the Lido on Thursday, Feb 1 @ 7pm.

Anna Bourozikas joinsus  from the Setting Sun Film Festival giving us an overview of this unique film festival and calling for entries up to 31st January. Also some great news from filmmaker Sinem Saban for Survival Day:1. Ḻuku Ngärra: The Law of the Land will be available to stream online for FREE that day.- people just have to enter the code FREEAUST at check out- link to watch www.lukungarrafil...

Writer/ Director Heath Davis talks to us about his very Australian christmas film Christmess.

W e speak with Scott Hicks about his new film The Musical Mind: a portait in process. In this film Hick follows four muscians to get an idea about how they tick - Daniel Johns of Silverchair fame, Ben Folds, Simon Tedeschi and David Helfgott - the subject of Hick's hugely successful feature Shine. This film leads us in a privileged journey throught their lives from the beginnings.

Today we focus on Bromley: Light After Dark a full length feature documentary by Melbourne filmmaker Sean McDonald about David Bromley, Australian artist, love him or hate him Bromley is a force of nature. I spoke with Sean about his film which is in theatre's now.

Madeline Blackwell here tells us about the intention behind the moving, modern drama Damage. Madeline Dyer here tells us about the making of the wild and wacky A Savage Christmas.

Today two Australian films to look out for at Cinemas. The first Luke Sparke's Bring Him to me  here showing now at Nova, the Sun Theatre, Village and Palace cinemas and the second The Big Dog by Dane McCusker here getting a release at the Sun Theatre in Yarraville starting Nov 9th today Thursday.

Today we chat with filmmaker Nick Barkla and revisit his film The Healing. The Healing is a fascinating film that follows the recovery that follows when a group of traumatised vets regain their own lives when they learn to re-train damaged ex-racehorses. The Healing is doing a country wide theatrical tour with Q & A with November 9th at the Nova on the Melbourne leg. 

Director Ian White talks to us about his new film Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

First up we hear from Alice Maio Mackay here . Alice Maio Mackay is a 19-year-old transgender award-winning filmmaker. Her 3rd film T-Blockers is screening at MQFF.We go to a chat with Sarah Christie here, Senior Development Executive, Prime Video Australia  about their partnership with NIDA that will support two people in their pursuit of direcotrial/ writing for screen ambitions.

We chat with the enigmatic Saidin Salkic about his up-coming 2nd Film Festival Screening at the Docklands Library on Nov 11 at 3pm and live in general for Australia's foremost avant-garde filmmaker.

The darkly comic Aussie thriller Slant, winner of best film at the MonsterFest, showing in select cinemas around Australia from October 12 Melb plus additional filmmaker Q&A preview screenings Oct 5 at the Nova at 6:50pm. We chat with director James Vinson here. We continue the genre theme with action/ drama Suka. We speak with director Heidi Lee Douglas here about this action pacted retelling of...

 ‘Three Chords & The Truth’ in cinemas nationally from October 5  st Sun Cinema Melb Oct 6th with Q&A is a gem of a film. Shot in Newcastle starring Jackie Marshall the film is screening at the Sun Cinema in Yarraville. We talk with writer/ director Claire Pasvolsky.

 Film sound recordist Alicia Butterworth tells us about the Developing Diverse Screen Sound Practitioner Futures Project she and sound designer Tfer Newsome will be running thanks to funding from the Screenrights Culture Fund.

We talk about Climate Changers with director Johan Gabrielsson. Following its world premiere at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival, this timely documentary will screen at more than 25 cinemas around the country, launching with a national Q&A event on Sunday 17 September. Join actor, climate advocate and moderator Yael Stone in conversation with Professor Tim Flannery, Dr Saul Griffith and Kavita Naidu ...

Tipping Point Film Festival, Online and Free, upto 11th September. A collaboration with Documentary Australia and TEDxSydney. We talk to Stephanie King here, Impact & Education Director with Documentary Australia about the six films you can see: DelikadoCarbon: The Unauthorized BioraphyUndermined: Tales from the KimberleyRegenerating AustraliaBlack Cockatoo CrisisYouth on StrikeOur Second feature...

Today we speak with veteran filmmaker and anti-war activist David Bradbury about his filmmaking and the receipt ofThe David Hartsough Individual Lifetime War Abolisher of 2023 award. It is a global award bestowed by WORLDBEYONDWAR.org. Catch David's online acceptance speech here

We speak with Aotearoa New Zealand director/ writer Katherine McRae about Pacific Mother premieres August 28 and August 30 in Sydney and Melbourne, with screenings to follow) which follows champion freediver, Sachiko Fukumoto, as she navigates maternity systems for the birth of her first child and comes to the fierce realization about the lack of choice many parents face. A truly remarkable look a...

We speak with writer/ director AP Pobjoy about their Vlogging seriers Unerased - premiering Sunday August 20 via Minus18 on Instagram. Giving trans youth a voice.

We talk with producer Cit Williams about the four part Rebel With A Cause celebrating four iconic and outstanding Queensland First Nations rebels – Senator Neville Bonner, poet Ooodgeroo Noonuccal, magistrate Pat O’Shane and media icon Tiga Bayle – who put everything on the line for change. Premiering at MIFF Wednesday August 9 and Saturday August 12.

Following global festival acclaim in 2022, Melbourne’s David Easteal’s film The Plains landed on international cinema’s premium ‘best of’ lists as the year drew to a close. Now the compelling film, set entirely during a Melbourne evening commute, is receiving 5 star reviews as it launches globally on MUBI. We get to chat with David about his film.

Two films from the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF).Filmmaker Sean Dobra talks here to us about his multi award winnin film These Two Hands: the Bowen Therapy Story screening Friday 28th at the Nova in Carlton. Filmmaker Helen Newman talks here to us about the moving film Solstice, screening Sat 29th at Nova which tells the story of a better mental health system for our young people.

Featuring conversations with directors of films showing at the Nova, Carlton during the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF).Rainbow Video - Jess Scott here. Inspired by Tom Roston's oral history ‘I Lost it at the Video Store’, this playful feature length documentary uses a deep local focus to show how VHS changed art forever. As the video shop era fades to black, RAINBOW VIDEO delves into t...