Showreel

We revisit the conversation I had with Gus Berger about his covid project The Lost City of Melbourne which has proved so popular you can still catch .it on the big screen.

Today we are having a chat with Anna Bourozikas about the Setting Sun Film Festival - this developing film festival  offers a showcase for filmmakers showcasing the Western side of Melbourne and has been developing broader opportunities for local and international filmmakers. We hear from webseries producer Mon and her webseries called The Formal now in its fourth season.

Today we are having a chat with Anna Bourozikas about the Setting Sun Film Festival - this developing film festival  offers a showcase for filmmakers showcasing the Western side of Melbourne and has been developing broader opportunities for local and international filmmakers. We hear from webseries producer Mon and her webseries called The Formal now in its fourth season.

We talk with film director Rob Connolly about his adaption of the Tim Winton novel Blueback coming out in cimemas on New Year's Day.

First program of our Summer Season we speak to young director Rhiannon Bannenberg about her Christmas themed film focused on the American market Mistletoe Ranch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Z4eVaZFAQ

Filmmaker John Soto talks to us about his filmmaking career and his new action thriller Avarice.

Following a successful festival run, Slovenian-Australian writer and director Sara Kern’s feature debut Moja Vesna has been released in Australian cinemas December 8. Sara came to talk to us about her film which explores family grief from the eyes of 10 year old Moya.

We speak with Sonja Hammer here about EFFA: Sovereign Cinema screening at ACMI Saturday Nov 10 starting with Shorts 1 at 3pm, Shorts 2 5.10pm and Feature 7.20pm. The program pays tribute and respect to First Nation's experience with land, water, sky and seas. We chat with Kaede Miyamura here VCA Film and Television graduate about her film Kotoba which is available on MIFF Play from 5-18 December. 

Rob Murphy takes us on an informative and enjoyable ride down the past of film stock, film projection and film art in his film Splice Here: A Projection Odyssey showing in cinemas in major cities and regional centres now.

First up here we talk with Darren L. Downs and Will Weatheritt, about their webseries Flats. FLATS is a 6-part comedy series launched  Thursday  10th November on ‘Slap Bang’ YouTube Channel.  It stars real residents of inner-city Melbourne’s community housing in their first acting roles. FLATS is written and directed by the team of Darren L. Downs and Will Weatheritt, who also stars in the series...

We talk to filmmaker and journalist Karl Malakunus about his environmental thriller Delilado. This Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominated film takes us to the island Palawan in the Philipines where big business and corrupt government is pushing the environment to the brink while local environmental defenders fight back for the land and their future generations. 

We are speaking to Filmmaker Saidin Salkic and John Flaus about Saidin's recent films and the upcoming Saidin Salkic Film Festival showing at 2-5pm on Nov 19 at the Library at the Dock 107 Victoria Promenade Docklands. Films showing will be Boy Among the Ruins and Frightened. 

We talk to Tully Arnot about his new Virtual Reality piece Epiphytes which explores how plants feel. It is the final VR commission in the $80,000 Mordant Family VR Commission series. It is accessible at ACMI in Gallery 3 from Nov 4-27 for free but booking recommended.

We chat with Nadi Sha about his film Everything in Between which is in cinemas now.

We chat with filmmaker Molly Haddon about her first feature The Longest Weekend. The Longest Weekend is showing in this years MQFF starting Nov 10 - Nov 2o. The Festival’s Australian Feature of the Year is also a Melbourne Premiere – The Longest Weekend (2022), is set in Sydney’s Inner West, this soon-to-be indie classic depicts how the lives of three disconnected siblings are turned upside-down w...

We talk with writer, director Thomas Wright about his film The Stranger starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris. In cinemas now and releasing on Netflix on Oct 19th.

Well who would believe it. Showreel is 10 years old and we take the opportunity to chat with the great and marvellous Mo Hashem, co-founder of Showreel, to find out what he has been doing since he went back to Cairo to spread his creative wings.

Melbourne International Games Week 2022 (MIGW) is a hybrid event from 1-9th October. It kicks off with ACMI’s Big Games Night In – a chance to play the most exciting new Australian games for free, and from the comfort of your own home. Games include international success Cult of the Lamb, the dreamy, pastel-laden Drive me to the Moon by Olivia Haines and Call of the Golden Valley, a murder-mystery...

We chat with Susie Hamilton, Professional Development Manager at the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), about First Break an initative to kick-start new writers into the film industry.

Today it is with great pleasure I alert you to the film Franklin which documents the ground breaking climate action campaign to save the Franklin River in Tasmania from being damed for a Hydro Electric plant in the 1970-80s. But Franklin like the campaign works on several different levels the past the present and the future take roles in this film. I spoke to filmmaker Kasimir Burgess about Frankl...

We chat with filmmaker Sophie Hyde about her new film Good Luck To You Leo Grande

In his first narrative feature, director Macario De Souza takes us on a journey with three young friends has they deal with life challenges backdropoed by 6 of Australia's most astounding music festivals.

Jenny Ross talks to her film Age of Rage - The Australian Punk Revolution.

Filmmaker Bernard Weber talks to us about his film Film Kids which takes us into St Edmonds, Sydney, special needs High School, as students write and produce short films with industry professionals. Available on SBS On Demand Aug 3.

Two films coming up at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival screening at Nova July 21 until the end of the month. Cuba My Soul is a musical odyessy through Cuba while Patou features music legend Pat Pal.