The Screen Show

Nashen Moodley, artistic director of Sydney Film Festival is in to talk festival highlights as the event opens this week. He's joined by the curators of Screenability, a section of SFF that shines a spotlight on people with disability, and also the Travelling Film Festival, which showcases this world-class cinema in regional locations Amir Jadidi, Iranian star of Oscar and Cannes winning director...

As Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest incarnation in the Star Wars universe arrives, we meet Deborah Chow, the first female director in the film franchise's history, as well as one of the stars of the series, Moses Ingram. We're also joined this week by Executive Producer Patrick Walters from See-Saw Films who are behind a slate of the best TV right now including Heartstopper and The Essex Serpent, plus,...

Writer-director Aaron Wilson on Little Tornadoes, his beautiful portrait of life in small town Australia in 1971, a time when the country was swept up in change. Opera singer Tiriki Onus on his debut film Ablaze, where together with filmmaker Alec Morgan he uncovers a 70-year-old lost film made by the first Aboriginal filmmaker, his grandfather William ‘Bill’ Onus. Plus, Nash Edgerton joins us fro...

We meet two Australian women making waves in film & TV to hear about their personal experiences in the industry....Chloe Rickard - Partner, COO and Executive Producer at Jungle Entertainment who are behind some of our most high-profile shows including No Activity, The Moodys and Wakefield; and Sophie Hyde - director of the feature films Animals, 52 Tuesdays and 2022 Sundance hit Good Luck To Y...

Director Leah Purcell and actor Rob Collins on The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Purcell's powerful post-colonial revision of a short story by Henry Lawson, which in her hands becomes a mesmerising outback western presented through a feminist, First Nations lens. Plus, Jonathan Alley tells us how he wove his admiration for cult band The Triffids into the beautiful documentary Love in...

British actor Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) talks about playing the writer Roald Dahl in the new film To Olivia, set in the late 1950s, early 1960s, a period when he was married to American actor Patricia Neale and the couple lost their young child to measles. Plus, African American Italian director Jonas Carpignano on To Chiara, which won Best European Film at Cannes and follows a y...

Two interviews with directors who have made films about families, parenting and memory…...you’ll meet Korean-American writer director and film critic Kogonada, who talks about his mysterious, gentle sci-fi film After Yang, set in a near future society where androids can be bought as companions. Plus, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma , who’s new film is called Petit Maman, and asks the question, wha...

Director Tom Gormican on The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and how he convinced Nicolas Cage to play himself in a meta-comedy-thriller about fame, bankruptcy and movies. Plus, British actor Tom Blyth is Billy the Kid in a new streaming series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst. He explains how a kid from Nottingham ended up playing one of the most famous figures of the wild west.

Hollywood director Robert Eggers on his Viking epic The Northman, a revenge thriller that follows a Prince seeking justice for the murder of his father, with an all-star cast including Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman. British actress Imogen Poots on the trippy neo-Western thriller Outer Range, and Audrey Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival discusses her intimate film Hap...

One of the world's most successful box office entertainers, Michael Bay (The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, Transformers), speaks about his latest blockbuster, the explosive heist thriller Ambulance, in which Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star as adoptive brothers on a car chase through L.A. in a stolen ambulance. And, the story of an Australian film pioneer comes to life in a new do...

This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Th...

Streaming on Amazon Prime, Master is a gothic horror set on a haunted university campus that examines the ongoing legacy of American racism. We're joined by director Mariama Diallo. Plus, Uberto Pasolini, the producer behind The Full Monty on his new, Belfast-set film Nowhere Special, a tender drama about a father-son relationship where tragedy looms.

Melbourne filmmaker Danny Cohen on Anonymous Club, his 16mm doc about Melbourne musician Courtney Barnett, an introspective,  introverted & reluctant world-famous rock-star. Plus, U.S. director Mimi Cave talks about her horror take on the meet-cute/rom-com in Fresh and Hollywood star Sebastian Stan on getting into character for his villainous role.

French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve on her English language debut Bergman Island, a film that engages with the legacy of Ingmar Bergman as a couple retreat to the pristine Swedish island of Fårö where the filmmaker shot some of his most famous films, looking to find inspiration, and, British director Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir, her lauded 2021 film. The Souvenir II continues to f...

Susanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a...

Filmmaker Blerta Basholli on her Albanian-Kosovan drama Hive, which became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in its World Cinema category – the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award. It's based on the true story of a widow who becomes an entrepreneur after losing her husband in the Kosovo War. Plus, A Night of Knowing Nothing, a stunning explora...

Mike Mills on his new film C'mon C'mon, a sweet, stripped back road trip across America about family bonds and connection starring Joaquin Phoenix. Plus, Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen on his triple Oscar nominated documentary animation Flee, and meet the Australians who won the international competition at Clermont-Ferrand.

Bosnian writer-director Jasmila Žbanić talks about depicting the Srebrenica Massacre in her film Quo Vadis, Aida? Indie American actor Ione Skye reveals her Top Shelf of film, and Bill Code on his debut documentary feature The Lake of Scars, a story of allyship, environment and reconciliation around efforts to preserve Indigenous scar trees and artefacts in the Lake Boort area of northern Victoria...

Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds discuss the historical coming of age film Belfast, screenwriter Bina Bhattacharya and actor and writer Arka Das talk about Here Out West, a cinematic postcard to Western Sydney. Plus I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie on bringing the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape scandal to the small screen. 

Pedro Almodóvar discusses Parallel Mothers, his intricately woven mystery about two women’s journey into motherhood and the scars of the Spanish Civil War, starring Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit. And Pablo Larraín discusses Spencer, his unconventional Princess Diana biopic set during a Christmas weekend at Sandringham starring Kristen Stewart. 

Oscar winner Chloé Zhao on Nomadland, plus Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson on his 2021 film About Endlessness, and film scholar Nick Pinkerton on Tsai Ming Liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

The legendary and multi-talented French actor Julie Delpy and the Australian cinematographer behind lavish period soap Domina.