Lucie McMahon (Director and Producer) & Celeste De Clario (DOP and Producer) talk to me about their documentary Things Will Be Different. It covers the experiences of two residents at the Walker Estate in Northcote, as they are being evicted - the Walker Estate was demolished by the State Government, removing it out of public housing into the Gover…

Today we chat with Mushroom Studios' Chief Operating Officer Bethany Jones here. Mushroom Studios' has been producing and distributing independent content for 30 years, starting with Chopper, including miniseries Molly and now a new film following the journey of an Afghani translator as she tries to settle into working class Freemont USA. Committed…

We talk with director Tom Haramis about his new documentary feature Fight to Live which takes us into the life of Australian UFC and Bare Knuckle Fighting champion and domestic abuse survivor “Rowdy” Bec Rawlings. Fight to Live is one of the Australian features screening at this years Setting Sun Film Festival.…

We chat with writer/director/ actor John Jarrett about his new film What about Sal? which focuses on the question what happens to a person with down syndrome when their parents die. A rousing, domestic drama starring Gerard O' Dywer supported by a great cast of actors is a truly life affirming film. Catch it in its first week to support Australia f…

We talk with Lucy Nelson from AWG and last years winner of the short form Emerging Writers' Award, Kayti Murphy about how useful entering the award is for aspiring screen writers.Annie McLoughlin, Lucy Nelson, Kayti Murphy

Today we are going to the last night of the Melbourne Women's Film Festival. Jeni Thornley's film Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary was the final film of the festival. It is a mediative film cafted from Thornley's visual diary made up of super 8. It was commissioned by the Australian Film and Sound Archive. Here is the q&a after the film screening w…

We chat with Greg Dolgopolov, co-curator of the Inner West Film Festival running from 11-21 April. In it's second year this festival gives opportunities for an electic program which hosts the work of local Western Sydney creatives while digging deep to the past and present of different world cinemas. Greg gives and insight into why a festival and w…

We chat with Jonathan Page from Bonsai Films about their work as Executive Producer/ Producer & Distributor of some of Australia's best indi films.Annie McLoughlin, Jonathan Page

MWFF Festival Director Sian Mitchell with program details for the Festival running from March 21-25 at ACMIHightlights include: Jazz Money's WINHANGANHA, Margot Nash's Undercurrents and closing nights Memory Film: a Filmmaker's Diary by Jeni ThornleyAnnie McLoughlin, Sian Mitchell

We chat with the makers of Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) Matthew Thorne & Derik Lynch here. The film won a Silver Bear (Short) at the 73th Berlin Film Festival and is showing as part of the AIDC's public screening program during the AIDC Conference 3-6 March at ACMI.We have a quick word with Jo-Anne Brechin here, director of One Perfect Mat…

Film culture in Melbourne has been given a boost by the Best Films You've Never Seen Program screening at The Capitol. We chat with RMIT Cinema Studies Lecturers Adrian Danks, and Alexia Kannas about the choices they have made for the Feb 28th sessions Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter.…

We hear exerpts from the Documentary Australia launch of the Wellbeing Documentary Guide featuring Dr Mitzi Goldman Documentary Australia and filmmaker, Dr Rebecca Barry filmmaker, Akhim Dev - filmaker and Ben Steele Screen Well & Filmmaker. The Guide has been produced by Screen Well with support from SANE Australia and the film industry, as the st…

We chat with writer/ director Mark Leonard Winter about his debut feature The Rooster starring Hugo Weaving and Pheonix Raei and featuring Rhys Mitchell (Cake, Upper Middle Bogan), John Waters (Offspring, Mystery Road), Robert Menzies (Little Tornadoes, Glitch) Tom Stokes (The Railway Man, Warnie), Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Lord of the Rings: Ring…

We speak with curator of Screams on Screen at the Capitol, Dr. Jess Babanzategui. SCREAMS ON SCREEN16-17 February, The CapitolOver two heart-stopping nights, celebrate the rebellious forces that fuel the horror genre with music, art, films and director talks. Featuring David Lynch’s early shorts, a 10th-anniversary screening of 'The Babadook' (2014…

Filmmaker Saara Lamberg tells us about her new feature The Lies We Tell Ourselves screening at the Lido on Thursday, Feb 1 @ 7pm.Annie McLoughlin, Saara Lamberg

Anna Bourozikas joinsus from the Setting Sun Film Festival giving us an overview of this unique film festival and calling for entries up to 31st January.Also some great news from filmmaker Sinem Saban for Survival Day:1. Ḻuku Ngärra: The Law of the Land will be available to stream online for FREE that day.- people just have to enter the code FREEAU…

Writer/ Director Heath Davis talks to us about his very Australian christmas film Christmess.Annie McLoughlin, Heath Davis

W e speak with Scott Hicks about his new film The Musical Mind: a portait in process. In this film Hick follows four muscians to get an idea about how they tick - Daniel Johns of Silverchair fame, Ben Folds, Simon Tedeschi and David Helfgott - the subject of Hick's hugely successful feature Shine. This film leads us in a privileged journey throught…

Today we focus on Bromley: Light After Dark a full length feature documentary by Melbourne filmmaker Sean McDonald about David Bromley, Australian artist, love him or hate him Bromley is a force of nature. I spoke with Sean about his film which is in theatre's now.Annie McLoughlin, Sean McDonald

Madeline Blackwell here tells us about the intention behind the moving, modern drama Damage.Madeline Dyer here tells us about the making of the wild and wacky A Savage Christmas.Annie McLoughlin, Madeline Blackwell, Madeline Dyer

Today two Australian films to look out for at Cinemas. The first Luke Sparke's Bring Him to me here showing now at Nova, the Sun Theatre, Village and Palace cinemas and the second The Big Dog by Dane McCusker here getting a release at the Sun Theatre in Yarraville starting Nov 9th today Thursday.Annie McLoughlin, Luke Sparke, Dane McCusker

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…

Director Ian White talks to us about his new film Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday PartyAnnie McLoughlin, Ian White

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 direcotri…

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.Annie McLoughlin, Saidin Salkic

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 Do…

‘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.Annie McLoughlin, 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.Annie McLoughlin, Alicia Butterworth

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…

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…

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 hereAnnie McLoughlin, David Bradbury

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 c…

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.Annie McLoughlin, AP Pobjoy

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 …

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 bett…

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 sho…

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 ab…

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.Annie McLoughlin, Jeff Bird

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 i…

Radiothon show featuring interview with Alena Lodkina here about her new feature Petrol.Annie McLoughlin, Alena Lodkina

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 G…

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, Melb…

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.Annie McLoughlin, Esther Takac

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 h…

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 intereste…

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.Annie McLoughlin, Mwajemi Hussein, Rolf de Heer

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/iTunesMoviesAnnie McLoughlin, John Ogilvie

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 ticketsAnnie McLoughlin, Chris Luscri