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Highlighting films showing in this years Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF).We speak with John Teague here about his film The Belly of the Beast: a Torquay Story which delves into the remarkable history of this small seaside Victorian Town. Screening at Nova, Carlton 2pm Sat. July 22.We speak to first time director Joshinder Chaggar here about her film More Than Just Cute which follows the...

We are featuring interviews with Australian filmmakers screening at the upcoming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Today Jeff Bird talks about his collaboration with Paul Mutimer on the film Kombi Man screening at the Nova Sunday July 23 at 4.30pm.

Two for one this week. Ronnie S. Riskalla joins us here to talk about his feature Streets of Colour set in Western Sydney. The world premiere June 26 at Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Sydney followed by a theatrical release across Australia. Filmaker Craig Elder joins me with Susan Jury here to talk about How are you Traveling a film which takes us into remote Australian communities with Psychs on...

Radiothon show featuring interview with Alena Lodkina here about her new feature Petrol.

Radiothon show featuring interview with Alena Lodkina here about her new feature Petrol.

We are talking to filmmakers Cameron Trafford and Henry Gosper here about their film Water for Birds. screening as part of Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) in Cinema program. Focused on a small group of teachers and students, Water for Birds offers a unique insight into the successful, replicable educational model developed by non-profit Guria to combat second-generation prostitution in...

Endangered Generation narrated by Laura Dern and part of a Monash University Project is Director Celeste Geer's exploration of how humans deal with impending environment disaster and how we could and should be sitting up ant taking action. Fundamentally positive film set at a very dark moment in history. June 4th Q&A and screening at the Nova, Melbourne is the first in screenings & Q&A in Sydney,...

Esther Takac's film The Narrow Bridge explores the road to peace between Palestinian and Israeli combatants through the eyes of the controversial organisation for peace the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families.

Today we are speaking with Melbourne Independent Filmmaker Sinem Saban. She has been working on an extraordinary film Luku Ngärra: The Law of the Land in collaboration with Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM, a highly respected Yolngu clan leader, initiated lawman and civil rights activist who has led the battle for the spiritual and political freedom of his people for over 45 years. GofundmeChauvel Cinem...

We are chatting with animator Cath Murphy who is the Director of Pollyannafilms an animation house in Melbourne that operates as a social enterprise. They have started production on a feature documentary based on an interview with a nurse who worked at many of Australia's detention Centres and are looking to promote the work so that anyone interested in supporting them financially to pay their int...

The Survival of Kindness is Rolf de Heer's most recent film. We are joined by the Director Rolf De Heer and actor Mwajemi Hussein to talk about The Survival of Kindness which is in cinemas May 4th.

John Ogilvie's adaptation of Conrad's The Secret Agent takes us into the surveillance world of modern Australia.  Lone Wolf is set in Melbourne and starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Hugo Weaving and Chris Bunton Lone Wolf is available:LabelDIRECT/VimeoGooglePlayYouTubeMoviesAppleTV/iTunesMovies

ReelGood Film Festival on Saturday 22 April at the Lido Hawthorn is a showcase of Australian Filmmakers, knockout shorts, talks, discussion and socialising. For one day only from 10am to 6:30 pm tickets

We talk with filmmakers Laurence Billiet and Rachel Antony, whoes film The Giants melds the life of activist Bob Brown with the Gondwana-era forests of the Tarkine.

First here Bronwyn Kidd, Director of Flickerfest gives us a background to this important long lived Shorts Festival and the up-coming Best of Melbourne Shorts - 2023 Tour at Kino Wednesday 12th April 7pm. Then here an exerpt from the AIDC for an exclusive deep dive into two of the most anticipated factual series' upcoming in 2023 - First Weapons and The First Inventors - and the importance of Firs...

Today we are lucky enough to be chatting with filmmaker Jolyon Hoff with his collaborator in his latest film Muzafar Ali. Muzafar is an internationally renowned Afgani photographer who arrived with his family as a refugee and in their effort to work out the type of future they would be able to carve out in Australia Muzafar made the discovery of Afgans having been an integral part of Australia for...

We chat with Tony Briggs, Birrarangga Film Festival Director.

We are joined by independent filmmaker David Bradbury to talk about his new film The Road to War which focuses on the unhealthy alliance between Australia and US military policy in the era of AUKUS. The premiere of The Road to War will be at Nova Carlton 22 March 6.30pm tickets.

Sarah Steel here, from Screenrights talks about the Screenrights Cultural Fund which is open for applications to April 12.Lena Nahlous here, from Diversity Arts Australia tells us about what they do and Fair Play funded with support from the Screenrights Cultural Fund.

We chat with Laurrie Brannigan-Onato, AIDC's First Nation's Producer about the First Nation Creators Program and also general access sessions such as First & Foremost: first Nations Knowledge Trhrough Documentary session details, at this year's AIDC starting March 5th.

Director/filmaker Cather Dwyer (Brazen Hussies) is giving a talk at AIDC this year about archival films. We chat today about the making of Brazen Hussies and her experiences of working in archival film.

Two great Australian films. First up a chat with Beck Cole about the film We Are Still Here: a collaboration with Pan Pacific indigineous peoples to tell the story of colonization from the point of view of the people already living on their lands here. We follow up with Craig Boreham's explosive film Lonesome in cinemas starting February here  

We are chatting with Sian Mitchell, Director of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) which is running from 23 Feb - 27 Feb at ACMI.

Returning from their successful screening at Cannes Director/Writer/Actor Saara Lamberg and lead actor Jayden Denk join us in the studio for the first live program of the year to talk about Westermarck Effect. Screening at the Lido on March 22 at 7pm Westermarck Effect focuses on the taboo of familial romantic bonding.

Ablaze tells the story of William Onus, entrepeneur and first nations activist. It all began with a strip of film found uncatalogued in the National Sound & Film Archive. I spoke to Alec Morgan, one of the team that made the film when it first came out.