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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...

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.