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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...

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...