Best Silje Podcasts (2024)

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen on A New Kind of Wilderness 30:56

7d ago30:56

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Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's documentary A New Kind of Wilderness won the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema – Documentary and will be screening at the Adelaide Film Festival on Saturday 26 October and Tuesday 29 October. This serene and moving film follows a young family in the midst of transition. Parents Maria and Nik are raisi…

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Adelaide Film Festival Critics Round Up Discussion 1:10:11

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Welcome to a special Adelaide Film Festival round up discussion featuring myself, Virat Nehru, and Nadine Whitney. While we have known each other for years, the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival was our first opportunity to meet up in person, watch some films, and do what film critics do best: talk about them afterwards. The following discussion sees us …

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Shea Gallagher and Daniel Tune on Moviejuice 28:55

4d ago28:55

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In the heart of Adelaide, a movement is changing the conversations about film and film culture. That movement is called moviejuice, a ground up driven collective of artists, filmmakers, film theorists and enthusiasts, who commune to watch, experience, and talk about film and art culture together. Created by Shea Gallagher, Daniel Tune, and Louis Ca…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Actor Dacre Montgomery on Went Up the Hill 22:02

6d ago22:02

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Director Samuel Van Grinsven returns to our screens with his sophomore feature film, Went Up the Hill, a powerful drama about an abandoned child, Jack (Dacre Montgomery), attending the wake of a mother he never knew, and encountering her grieving widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps). As Jack and Jill navigate the fractured existence they find themselves in, …

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Kate Blackmore on Make It Look Real 49:46

6d ago49:46

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Kate Blackmore's feature length film debut, Make It Look Real, navigates the intricacies of utilising an intimacy coordinator on the set of a film. Kate follows intimacy coordinator Claire Warden as she embarks on the collaborative process of presenting sex on screen for Kieran Darcy-Smith's film Tightrope, which features three Australian actors wh…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing 24:19

6d ago24:19

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Regular readers of The Curb will know that I have a particular soft spot for the work of Sally Aitken. Through her expansive filmography that tells stories that span the globe, from David Stratton, to Valerie Taylor, to The Wiggles, and now to Every Little Thing, a film about Terry, a wildlife carer in California who runs a rehab facility for hummi…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Ian Darling on The Pool 26:01

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Documentarian Ian Darling's filmography includes a myriad of films that explore the fabric of Australian society. With Paul Kelly - Stories of Me, Darling immersed viewers into the poetry of one of Australia's greatest lyricists. In The Final Quarter, the excoriating and cruel racism inflicted upon footy legend Adam Goodes is explored through the m…

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Like My Brother Co-Directors Sal Balharrie and Danielle MacLean on Tiwi Football in the AFLW 25:26

18d ago25:26

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The AFLW was established in 2016, expanding from an initial eight teams to eighteen in 2022. In the years since it launched, the league has grown to showcase the different styles of football that each corner of Australia has to offer. In Sal Balharrie and Danielle MacLean's essential documentary Like My Brother, we follow four AFLW hopefuls from th…

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Digging into Dance with Yeah the Boys Director Stefan Hunt and Choreographer Vanessa Marian in This Interview 31:16

16d ago31:16

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Over the span of eleven minutes, the impressive short film Yeah the Boys sways and swerves through a boozy night with the lads in nondescript backyard Australia. Drinking culture, Aussie larrikinism, and the masculinity that finds fertile ground in these areas is brought to life with a pulsing score by The Avalanches. Oh, and all of this is present…

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Parish Malfitano on Creating the Sensorially Invigorating Salt Along the Tongue 1:00:34

17d ago1:00:34

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To call Parish Malfitano's sophomore feature, Salt Along the Tongue, a straight up horror film feels like a disservice to the experience of watching this magnificent melodrama-adjacent film. Yes, there are most certainly horrific elements - blood features heavily throughout the film, upsetting tales about the symbiotic relationship between wasps an…

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Saara Lamberg on Creating a Filmography in a Community of Independent Filmmakers 45:50

22d ago45:50

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Finnish-Australian filmmaker Saara Lamberg has crafted a filmography which features genre-defying, boundary pushing films like 2017's Innuendo, 2022's Westermarck Effect, and the docu-fiction film The Lies We Tell Ourselves, which received screenings at Perth's Revelation International Film Festival and the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Screeni…

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The Koalas Filmmaker Georgia Wallace-Crabbe on the Fight to Save an Australian Icon 55:06

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The Koalas is a documentary that follows in the footsteps of the McIntyre's Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story and Jane Hammonds's Black Cockatoo Crisis, in that it essays the plight of an Australian icon - the koala - alongside the stories of the activists, ecologists, politicians, and wildlife carers who are putting themselves on the line to save the ic…

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Sydney Underground Film Festival Director Nathan Senn on What Goes Into Running an Underground Film Festival 43:26

2M ago43:26

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The upcoming 18th Annual Sydney Underground Film Festival kicks off in Newtown, NSW, on Thursday 12 September with a Smell-O-Rama screening of John Waters cult classic Female Trouble, celebrating its 50th anniversary. The festival runs until Sunday 15 September with a huge array of films and features ranging from the truly bonkers Vulcanizadora to …

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Starring Jerry As Himself Subject Jerry Hsu on the Troubles of Being Recruited as an Undercover Agent 46:23

2M ago46:23

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Law Chen's familial documentary Starring Jerry as Himself follows retired Florida man Jerry C. Hsu as he's recruited by Chinese police to become an undercover agent. The documentary follows Jerry as he retells his story about how he was recruited, what actions he needed to take to help inform the agents, and, most importantly, the lengths he goes t…

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Mike Cheslik and Co Explain Why Hundreds of Beavers is the Must See Indie Event of the Year 26:55

3M ago26:55

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One of the smash hit films of the year on the festival circuit has been Mike Cheslik's wonderfully inventive Hundreds of Beavers. Ahead of the films launch in Australia earlier this year, Nadine Whitney caught up with the creative team behind the film to discuss all of its eccentricities. Nadine wrote about the film in her review saying: Describing…

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Joseph Nizeti Invites Us Into the World of Fungi: Web of Life 46:35

3M ago46:35

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With 2021s phenomenal documentary River under his belt, filmmaker and musician Joseph Nizeti is no stranger to bringing the world of nature to life on the big screen in a way that transforms how we see the environment with live alongside. With his latest film, Fungi: Web of Life, which he co-directs alongside Gisela Kaufmann, Joseph turns from the …

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The Organist Filmmakers Andy Burkitt and Jack Braddy on Their Hilarious Cost of Organs Crisis Dark Comedy 56:08

3M ago56:08

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When tickets went on sale for Andy Burkitt and Jack Braddy's independent Australian feature film, The Organist, at the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), the filmmakers managed a rare feat: they sold out their first two screenings, with a third screening quickly being scheduled. Receiving wide audience support for their world premie…

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Comedian Akmal Saleh on His Voice Acting Improv in 200% Wolf 18:47

3M ago18:47

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Akmal Saleh is one of Australia's finest stand up comedians having spent decades keeping Australians entertained through his observant and enjoyable brand of comedy. When not on the stage, Akmal can be heard on screen in an array of kids animated shows like The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill, Tracey McBean, and the superb animated series 100% Wolf.…

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In a Violent Nature Director Chris Nash on His Pure Slasher Horror Experience 23:18

3M ago23:18

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In a Violent Nature is one of the most gruesome and gory horror films of the year. It's also a film that Nadine Whitney has called a pure slasher death trip. Director Chris Nash takes audiences on the slasher ride of the year, with his camera following the gnarly Johnny (Ry Barrett) as a silent brute slaughtering an array of college kids who possib…

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Afterwar Director Birgitte Stærmose Talks About the Nature of Truth in This Interview 37:47

4M ago37:47

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Ruby O'Sullivan-Belfrage is a writer and critic who works and plays on unceded Wurundjeri land. In the wake of Afterwar’s screening at Sydney Film Festival, Ruby O’Sullivan-Belfrage spoke with director Birgitte Stærmose about the impact she hopes the film has, the nature of truth, and how truly annoying the question of genre can be. Afterwar screen…

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Stubbornly Here Director Taylor Broadley Talks About Disappearing Teens and Positive Nostalgia in This Interview 54:53

4M ago54:53

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Taylor Broadley's feature debut film Stubbornly Here is a welcome blast of indie filmmaking inventiveness with the Perth-based filmmaker presenting a sci-fi-adjacent story about three teens who live in an apathetic society where teenagers sometimes vanish into thin air. Stubbornly Here speaks to the anxieties of the day, focusing on a generation of…

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Episode 7: Life Lessons 9:52

4M ago9:52

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Send us a text "Life Lessons: Why We Get Them and How They Shape Us" In this thought-provoking episode, we delve into the profound reasons behind life lessons and explore how they impact our spiritual and mental growth. Life is like a vast curriculum, filled with experiences—both good and bad—that we're meant to navigate. But why? Join us as we unr…

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Sydney Film Festival: 200% Wolf Director Alexs Stadermann and Star Ilai Swindells on Funny Farts in Films 39:32

5M ago39:32

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There's space in this Bluey obsessed world for two Aussie animated canine stories, with Alexs Stadermann's utterly delightful and wonderfully inventive series 100% Wolf following the exploits of one Freddy Lupin, a werewolf who turns into a puffy pink poodle when the moon comes out. Kicking off in 2019 with the bright and brilliant 100% Wolf which …

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Sydney Film Festival: Kid Snow Director Paul Goldman on the Allure of a Boxing Drama 23:18

5M ago23:18

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The boxing film subgenre gets an esteemed new entry in the form of Paul Goldman's Kid Snow. Set in the 1970s, Kid Snow follows Billy Howle as the titular character, a washed-up fighter who has one last shot at glory. Shot in the red dirt of WA, Kid Snow also features an impressive line-up of Aussie actors including Phoebe Tonkin, Hunter Page-Lochar…

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Episode 6: The Afterlife 16:39

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Send us a text In this thought-provoking episode, we delve into the enigmatic concept of the afterlife, a topic that has captivated human imagination for millennia. We explore the spirit realm, a parallel existence where spirits can observe our world but interact in markedly different ways. From the ability to traverse walls to the potential of inf…

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Sydney Film Festival - Flathead Director Jaydon Martin on Dismantling the Modern Australian Identity via the Docu-Fiction Experience 54:43

5M ago54:43

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One of the finest films having its Australian premiere at the festival is Jaydon Martin's stunning feature debut film Flathead. This fiction-documentary hybrid film follows Cass Cumerford, a bloke near the end of his days who returns to Bundaberg, the region he grew up. Swaying into the town, he finds consolation and support with various religious …

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Sydney Film Festival: In Vitro Directors Will Howarth and Tom McKeith On Their Grounded Sci-Fi Film 20:21

5M ago20:21

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In Vitro is the highly anticipated follow-up from Will Howarth (Bombay Beach) and Tom McKeith (Beast, SFF 2016) after their debut feature Beast was nominated for Best First Feature at Toronto International Film Festival 2015. Starring the director Will Howarth, Ashley Zukerman (Fear Street) and Talia Zucker (Lake Mungo). On an isolated cattle farm,…

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Episode 5: Energy & Aura 20:13

5M ago20:13

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Send us a text In this episode we delves into the fundamental nature of energy and its profound impact on our lives. From the electricity that powers our world to the spiritual energy and aura that animates our being, we explore the myriad ways energy manifests and influences everything around us. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of energy, its …

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Episode 4: The Third Eye 11:44

6M ago11:44

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Send us a text Join us on a profound exploration of the third eye chakra, Ajna, and its role in spiritual awakening. Discover the ancient wisdom and modern interpretations of this mystical energy center that is said to be the gateway to higher consciousness and inner wisdom. In this episode, we delve into the enigmatic concept of opening the third …

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From Hilde, With Love Director Andreas Dresen on Beauty within a Dark Story 32:10

6M ago32:10

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The 2024 German Film Festival is currently underway across Australia with screenings taking place from 7 May to 5 June. The poster film for the festival is From Hilde, With Love, by director Andreas Dresen. In the following interview, Nadine Whitney and Andreas talk about his interest in telling the story of Hilde Coppi on screen. Hilde was a young…

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Episode 3: Manifestation 14:03

6M ago14:03

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Send us a text In today’s enlightening episode, we delve into the captivating world of manifestation. We explore the essence of what manifestation truly is—a transformative process of bringing your deepest desires to life through the power of belief and intention. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of this phenomenon and provide you with a practic…

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Shape Director Roger Ungers Talks About Body Positivity in the Gay Community in This Interview 26:04

6M ago26:04

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Roger Ungers is a documentarian who continually presents a new perspective on the world around us. His 2020 documentary Finding Creativity saw him explore the complex nature of creativity, and in turn, he reflects on his own creativity. That personal touch is brought to his latest documentary, Shape. This is a film about physicality and the at time…

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Episode 2: Spiritual Awakening 14:11

6M ago14:11

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Send us a text Welcome back, beautiful souls, to the second episode of our enlightening series. Today, we dive into the profound waters of Spiritual Awakening. What is Spiritual Awakening? Spiritual Awakening is an intimate and often intense experience that illuminates the mind, revealing the profound depths of existence and the hidden truths of li…

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Episode 1: Shadow Work 15:30

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Send us a text In this inaugural episode, we delve into the enigmatic realm of shadow work, a transformative journey towards self-improvement and personal growth. We explore the intricate process of confronting and embracing the concealed facets of our psyche, those that we often shun or ignore. The episode kicks off with the pivotal question: What…

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Katherine Grace on Working with Friend Holly Dodd on the Horror Short Alison & Betty 35:00

7M ago35:00

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There's something in the water in Perth that leads to a creative movement from local filmmakers who push through microbudget limitations to tell engaging and inventive stories on screen. For emerging filmmakers Katherine Grace and Holly Dodd, that drive for creativity comes in the form of working together as actors and directors on a duo of short f…

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The Road to Patagonia Director Matty Hannon Talks About Living with the Land in This Interview 20:55

8M ago20:55

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As a young man, Matty Hannon explored the world, sinking roots in the Southeast Asian region. Here, he made lifelong friends, became part of families, and fostered a connection with the land that was ultimately severed when he had to return home to Australia to kick off a 'career'. The towering metal structures that became the home for his monotono…

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The Deepest Breath Composer Nainita Desai On the Art of Composing for Documentaries 55:22

8M ago55:22

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Nainita Desai is an award-winning composer whose work has spanned creative formats, from documentaries like The Reason I Jump where she won an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition, to TV series like Funny Women, to video games like Telling Lies and Immortality. With over 150 credits to her name, Nainita is nothing short of prolific. In the follow…

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Daniel Monks Talks Through His Career From Pulse to In the Room Where He Waits in This Interview 1:04:09

8M ago1:04:09

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Daniel Monks is an award winning theatre and film actor who hails from Perth, Western Australia. He received an AACTA nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the feature film Pulse, a story about a disabled teen who undergoes radical surgery to turn into a beautiful woman in a bid to be loved and embraced. Daniel wrote the script and worked…

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Carl Joseph Papa Talks About How Richard Linklater Influenced His Rotoscoped Animation The Missing in This Interview 37:20

9M ago37:20

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Listeners should note that the following interview contains discussions on childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Writer-director Carl Joseph Papa's The Missing follows Eric (Carlo Aquino), a young man who lives alone, maintains a crush on his coworker Carlo (Gio Gahol), and has a strong bond with his mother Rosalinda (Dolly De Leon). Rosalinda's reque…

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Carissa Lee Talks About Navigating Barriers in the Australian Arts System in This Interview 45:10

9M ago45:10

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Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer whose work spans from critical analysis, to theatre, to the new ABC Kids series, Planet Lulin, where she plays Principal Cruz. Carissa's critical work has appeared in publications like Kill Your Darlings, IndigenousX, and Witness Performance, where her writing examined culture and the arts through an Indige…

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Robert Connolly on Why Force of Nature Was His Hardest Film Shoot Yet in This Interview 22:33

9M ago22:33

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Robert Connolly is one of Australia's great modern directors, having exploded onto the film scene some twenty years ago with The Bank, which was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the AFI awards, which he swiftly followed up with an impressive body of work that includes Paper Planes, The Turning, Balibo, Blueback, and the 2021 adaptati…

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Patricia Clarkson Talks About Working Alongside Trace Lysette in the LGBTIQA+ Drama Monica in This Interview 28:43

9M ago28:43

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For as long as I've been a devotee of cinema, I've followed the career of Patricia Clarkson. Patricia is a genuine queen of the screen, featuring in films like The Station Agent, Far From Heaven, The Green Mile, and Pieces of April, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Her latest films is the magnificent drama film Monica, featuring …

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Sundance Interview - The Moogai Cinematographer Sean Ryan Talks About Crafting Tension on Screen for this Aboriginal Horror Film 25:32

10M ago25:32

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Jon Bell's unsettling 2021 short film, The Moogai, receives the feature film treatment with his 2024 horror of the same name. Making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, The Moogai follows in the steps of other Australian horror films (Talk to Me, Relic, You Won't Be Alone) to have left their mark at the fest. It follows the story of I…

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Bad Vibrations Writer/Director Nicole Delprado and Annabel Maclean Talking About Flickerfest and Creating Tension with a Theramine in This Interview 41:42

10M ago41:42

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Australian horror is experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment with the box office boom of Talk to Me, and the critical success of Godless, Monolith, You'll Never Find Me, Birdeater, and so many more. As we leave 2023 in the dust and we head into 2024, we want to start the year by continuing this celebration of ocker horror with the new…

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The First Episode of 2024 11:24

10M ago11:24

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Christmess Writer/Director Heath Davis Talks About Creating His Best Film Yet in This Interview 40:37

11M ago40:37

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Aussie indie filmmaker powerhouse Heath Davis is back with his fourth feature film, Christmess. This seasonally appropriate flick follows on fom his grounded work with his solid debut film Broke, in 2016. Heath quickly followed this up with the black comedy Book Week, before swerving into thriller territory with Locusts. Here we follow washed up al…

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Isla's Way Director Marion Pilowsky Talks About the Importance of Seeing the Story of an 87-Year-Old Woman in a Cinema in This Interview 37:34

11M ago37:34

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Much of what I do with The Curb is in a bid to shine a light on voices that may not often get the chance to be heard. That mindset carries through with director Marion Pilowsky's tenderly empathetic and joyfully curious documentary Isla's Way. Here we meet Isla Roberts. Isla isn't a lesbian. She's not a lezzo. She's not a dyke. She's just Isla Robe…

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Cat Person Director Susanna Fogel Talks About Presenting the Grey Area of Modern Dating on Screen in This Interview 17:00

12M ago17:00

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When the short story Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian was published in The New Yorker in 2017, it immediately went viral with readers resonating with the way modern day dating can quickly turn toxic. It's a compelling place for director Susanna Fogel to build from with her adaptation of the short story, scripted by Michelle Ashford. Here, Cat Person…

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Scott Hicks Talks About Exploring The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process in This Interview 25:06

12M ago25:06

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Scott Hicks is an Academy Award nominated director, with his Best Picture nominated film Shine bringing his work to international attention, alongside the work of the films subject, pianist David Helfgott. We're now some twenty-six years removed from the release of Shine, and the echoes of its impact continues to resonate within the creative minds …

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Bromley: Light After Dark - David & Yuge Bromley and Director Sean McDonald Chat About Creating a Space for Open Vulnerability in This Interview 37:24

12M ago37:24

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Every so often a presence swirls into our lives in an unexpected manner and changes it just a little bit. For many Australians, whether they be wealthy or not-so-wealthy, that presence is David Bromley. Here is a celebrated artist whose work features on the walls of galleries and private art collectors, while the same artwork adorns cologne labels,…

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