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Here Out West is a chapter film from eight emerging and diverse screenwriters living in Western Sydney, brought to the big screen by five female directors. I speak with one of the writers, Arka Das. 

Today we are lucky enough to be chatting with Natasha Gadd the creative director at the AIDC for a background to the event scheduled for March 6-9 a must for documentary filmmakers and those aspiring to be so. 

The fast approaching deadline for films for the Setting Sun Film Festival gives us as opportunity to catch up with Festival Director Anna Bourazoukas.

You are listening to a conversation I had recently with filmmaker Matthew Walker about his film I'm Wanita which is opening tonight January the 6th in cinemas. It focuses on an amazing talent and a wild woman Wanita she lives in Tamworth and is billed as the Queen of Australian Honky Tonk. The film is an amazing document a force of nature.

We are listening to a chat I had with Ivan Sen about his upcoming new film Loveland. Loveland is out in cinemas in February.

Today we talk with Spencer MacLaren who is part of the Steve Jaggi Production House in Queensland. He is talking to us about a series  called Dive Club now showing now on Netflix, shot in Queensland and aiming for the young adult market with a strong ensemble cast of young female performers.

Today we are going to a recent interview with Molly Reynolds in honour of the passing of the great first nations actor David Dalaithngu. My Name is David Gullipil will be the last film from the legendary David Gullipil.

Today I am replaying an interview I did with writer director Madeine Mariniello about her film Palazzo di Cozzo, a quintessentially Australian document. Palazzo di Cozzo documents the life and times of the larger than life character Franco Cozzo furniture magnate in Melbourne but also a symbol of the arrival of Italian migrants after the second world war into a determinedly anglo White Australian...

Today a film called Lion Spy. The world we live in has only 20,000 wild lions. South African born and Australian raised Filmmaker Rogue Rubin's aim was to find out how it was possible for this terrible position to have come about and how lions could be saved. This lead her trophy hunting. Lion Spy is an investigative report which takes us into the belly of the beast as well as the revelation of so...

We hear from Brisbane filmmakers Jaina Kalifa and Amelia Paxman about their film Lost Contact winner of the best documentary at this years St Kilda Film Festival and now in contention for an Oscar.

Today a little departure from the usual look at film productions and practitioners and a look at technology that is being used to create the moving image. I recieved a release about a Melbourne-based film technology company Blackmagic Design who announced that the award winning documentary Playing With Sharks, which looks at the life of Valerie Taylor, used it’s Cintel Scanner C-Drive HDR to digit...

We talk to producer Shahn Devendran the producer of six 30 min docos  called Unheard premiering on Amazon Prime on Oct 29th which shines a light on Australian rascism and it's affects on real people and real lives. If you want to catch Unheard go to Amazonprime. If you want more pn the issues and people fighting for positive change go to Ladbible.com/unheard or toNational Justice ProjectHuman Righ...

Today we are chatting with Molly Reynolds about her film ShoPaapaa made in collaboration with English Filmmaker Shekhar Bassi. Set in covid lock-down London ShoPaapaa reveals all. Virtual screenings during Sydney Film FestivalSFF On Demand 12–21 NovemberTix here: ondemand.sff.org.au/film/shopaapaapa/

Today with covid woes we are going against the trend to talk to Sean Gannon producer, production manager and post production hero on a locally produced romantic comedy Love You Like That.

This week we speak with Hagyung Koo about her first feature documentary Black Summer. As Hagyung explains she joined up with Blazeaid to help out farmers affected by the 2019 fires. Hagyung was stationed at Bombala NSW but the film Black Summer concentrates on the people at Goongerah just across the border in Victoria. Black Summer is part of Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Online.

Today we are looking at how Autstralian content can be maintained with the supremacy of the Streaming Services like Netflix. The Australian Institute hosted Matthew Deaner CEO of  Screen Producer Australia and actor/ producer Erik Thomson speaking with Ebony Bennett about just this subject. This is just an exerpt you can get the whole lot from the Australian Institute YouTube channel in the next f...

We get to speak to a filmmaker responsible for the very elegantly made and gripping film Disclosure which is coming out on the Home Entertainment Platform. Disclosure is about a socially disturbing subject the fall out when a young child discloses sexual abuse at the hands of another child who is the offspring of family friends. An amazing film because of it's tight focus on the emotions of the un...

Today we hear an exerpt from the AWG discussion about diversity with a panel including: Donna Chang, Commissioning Editor, SBS ScriptingGrainne Brunsdon, Head of Screen NSWSabina Giado, writer, filmmaker and consultant on Information & Cultural Exchange's Cultural Safety Risk Assessment ToolkitLaurrie Brannington-Onato, Development & Investment Manager Screen Australia. Bernard Zuel tied the discu...

The Last Days of Loneliness is a locally produced film, avant garde in intention and profound in result. It is a collaboration between filmmaker Saidin Salkic and the incomparable John Flaus. This is a conversation I had with Saidin and John. A particularly enjoyable experience I must say given our present lock down. Enjoy.

We talk with Jake Ryan, actor, about his work and his role in new Australian film Streamline. Streamline is a coming of age film built around the pressures on a 15 year old boy favoured or cursed depending on your view with the potential for Olympic Gold in swimming. Written and directed by Tyson Wade Johnston, starring Levi Miller and co produced by Ian Thorpe the film had an online screening dur...

One of the best aspects of documentary film is it's ability to look into issues, lives and experiences that we may know very little about. Wanting to Fly by Matthew Morden falls into this category. Wanting to Fly gives a much more incisive investigation of human suspension through the experiences of people involved and in particualar from the eyes of a man about to do his first suspension.

Today we are going back to the 2019/2020 fires. Inferno Without Borders  takes us on a fascinating exploration of cultural burning and indigenous land management techniques which bring us to the brink of a possible future away from Australia's dominate colonial mind set. 

We chat with Peter Taft from ATOM - Australian Teachers of Media. ATOM supports media teachers and teachers in general with hundreds of book, dvds and streaming resources as well as running competitions which sharpen the media skills of kids in Primary and Secondary school. One of the latest offerings is Democracy’s Watchdogs: Bob Bottom, available to stream now from The Education Shop. It is part...

Australia has become home to a lot of oversea productions. At the moment La Brea, an LA centric series, is being shot in Melbourne. I had the opportuntiy to chat with one of the the actors Eoin Macken. He also was in last weeks featured film Till Death and is also releasing a Here are the Young Men, a Dublin based production that he wrote and directed. Both films are now available on Home Entertai...

We speak with S.K. Dale about his film Till Death. A young man with five shorts under his belt, bringing his first feature to the screen, backed by American money and big stars, he has produced a knock out thriller.