Showreel Annie McLoughlin

Freyja Gillard, EFFA  Festival Co-Director, joins us with film maker Le  Luo, whoes film Outpicker features in the one day program of shorts, features and panel discussions at ACMI on June 1. From the tops of Mt Kosciuszko and all the way down to Bruny Island, EFFA presents: Home Grown sharing distinctly Australian perspectives on the environment here.Susie Hamilton, from the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), joins us to talk about First Break an initiative to get aspiring screen writers onto the first rung of the industry ladder here.

During Reconciliation Week the award winning documentary Ḻuku Ngärra: The Law of the Land will be running screenings across the country with the Melbourne screening at the Nova Cinema in Carlton on Friday 31st at 6:30pm with Q&A featuring the filmmaker Sinem Saban and special guest Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Gunai Nation) in attendance. Sinem Saban joins us today to talk about her film which gives voice to Ḻuku Ngärra, the extraordinary story of Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM, an initiated clan leader within the Yolŋu Nation who has spent the most part of his 79 years of life as a civil rights activist, a spiritual leader, a cross cultural mediator and educator and one of few elders who has dedicated his life to upholding the traditional law of his people.  Film website: www.lukungarrafilm.comFilm trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38pTKNcq438Link to tickets: https://fan-force.com/screenings

We chat with St Kilda Film Festival Director Richard Sowada about the upcoming SKFF 40th Festival which continues the love affair with film, short and long form 6th - 16th June.

We  hear a snippet from a Sustainable Film and Television Panel held during  Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) in collaboration with ATOM - Australian Teachers of Media. It includes information from Sustainable Screen Australia as well as the lived experience of filmmakers behind the short documentary The Oyster Gardener.

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 Government's new renewal program of developer lead housing projects, that gives public land to private developers who build, in this case, luxury apartments with some social housing tact on the back end.Things Will Be Different is premiering at Setting Sun Film Festival which is starting 9th of May over in the West.Screening with Q&As Sunday 12th May times on website with National release 15-21 May to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week

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 to independent and interesting Mushroom Studios is distributing Fremont into the Australian/ New Zealand market May 2 with earlier weekend screenings at select cinemas.We follow with news about whimsical $30K debut film PACO by South Australian comedy duo "tim&TIM!" Takes Festival Circuit by Storm. We chat with director Tim Carlier here.Screenings:MELBOURNE ~ LIDO CINEMAS | 6TH MAY 2024BRISBANE ~ FIVE STAR NEW FARM | 7TH MAY 2024ADELAIDE ~ THE REGAL | 8TH MAY 2024SYDNEY ~ RITZ CINEMAS | 9TH MAY 2024HOBART ~ REWIND CINEMA | 10TH MAY 2024