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Hosted by Annie McLoughlin · EN
Your half hour of local film news, conversations with film makers and explorations into how they bring their ideas to life on screen. Showreel promises an exciting package of film information that will set your ears buzzing.
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from Depression with Love & The Man Who Saw Them Arrive
1w agoTap to summarizeOver the next few weeks we will be chatting with filmmakers being featured at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2026 (MDFF2026) running online 1-31st July and in cinema 7th-19th July at Cinema Nova.Sean Dobra here talks to us about his film from Depression with Love.Zev Howley here talks to us about his UFO focused film The Man Who Saw Them Arrive.
Transcribe →Pelverata
2w agoTap to summarizeWe chat with independent filmmaker Mark Lipkin about his new film Pelverata. Mark will be at the Eclipse Cinema on Friday 22 May for a screening and Q&A session at 7:30pm.
Transcribe →Wolfram
3w agoTap to summarizeWe chat with producer David Jowsey, from Bunya Films, about Warrick Thornton's most recent film Wolfram in cinemas now.
Transcribe →The Half Barbaric Twang
4w agoTap to summarizeFirst up a chat I had with Andrew Wilkie from the Queer Screen Film Fest in Sydney. Andrew is the Programming and Industry Manager for the Festival and they spoke to me about the Emerging Narrative Feature Film Competition with a deadline of May the 24th.Second up is a chat with David Field and Stephen Dupont about The Half Barbaric Twangfeaturing The Number 4 Band on the Gimme Back Me Dog Tour.
Transcribe →TILDE Festival - trans-authored cinema
May 1Tap to summarizeWe chat with Ro Bright, CEO TILDE and featured filmakers Ada Tzinis and Izzie Harris. TILDE runs from May 1-9 across community spaces, venues and cinemas featuring features, shorts, panels and the drive in. Check out the programme here.
Transcribe →Ian Darling talking Australian Stories
Apr 23Tap to summarizeWe chat with filmmaker Ian Darling about his sessions at the Sorrento Writers' Festival around the importance of Australian stories.
Transcribe →Alphabet Lane
Apr 16Tap to summarizeWe chat with writer/ director about his film Alphabet Lane. Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Nicholas Denton this darkly comic film takes by the hand and leads us into the isolation ot the Australian rural landscape. Opens in cinemas on 23 April but you can meet the filmmaker at Nova on the 19th at 4pm.
Transcribe →The Deb & Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior
Apr 9Tap to summarizeFirst up a chat with Nathalie Abbott about her leading role in The Deb here. The film completed in 2024 is Rebel Wilson's directorial debut. It brings an all singing and dancing cast to rural Australia with a coming of age story at the centre of it.We follow with a chat with filmmaker Fiona Cochrane here and her new film Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior premiering at ACMI as part of the Comedy Festival on Thursday April 16th.
Transcribe →Dance for Your Life
Apr 2Tap to summarizeWe chat with dancer Conor Bann-Murray, a member of Brent Street, who is one of the featured dancers in Luke Cornish's Dance for Your Life given the opportunity to go to London to audition for a place at Dean Lee's dance company Shapehaus. Dance for Your Life takes us just a step further in exploring the dance industry from the hit series Dance Life.
Transcribe →Jimpa
Mar 26Tap to summarizeWe go to a Q&A held at Cinema Nova between Flick Ford and Director/ co writer of Jimpa Sophie Hyde & actors Aud Mason-Hyde and Daniel Henshall. The film is showing at Nova.
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