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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.

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.