Showreel

Mar 19 2025 457 ep. 454

Showreel Podcast artwork

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.

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

[node:field-show-name] - Episode [node:field-timestamp]

Spit is one of a recent flock of Australian films in cinemas at the moment (Inside, The Correspondent, Every Little Thing). Here we listen to star of Spit David Wenham in conversation with Edan Porter at a pre-release Q&A at the Rivoli.

MWFF & Whoopee Blues

We speak with Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) Director Sian Mitchell here about the wild and woolly nineth edition running 20th - 24th March.A little chat with filmmaker Fiona Cochrane here about her film Whoopee Blues which highlights the careers of the Conway brothers starting with the Jelly Bean Jug Band. Tickets for Melbourne Documentary Film Festival screenings at Nova

My Melbourne & Spit

Two Australian films out now in cinemas.Indian collaboration My Melbourne - we chat with producer Mitu Bhowmick Lange from Mind Blowing Films.Spit the second installment of the mega hit Gettin' Square is out - we chat with writer Chris Nyst.

Inside

We first speak with director/writer of Inside Charles Williams here, a remarkable film starring Cosmo Jarvis, Guy Pearce & Vincent Miller. In cinemas from 27th February. Facebook InstagramWe follow with a word from Devina McPherson here, the co-facilitator of the AIDC 2025 Indigenous Creators Program.

Birrarangga Film Festival

We go to the launch of the fourth Birraranga Film Festival here and then chat with Tony Briggs here the director of the festival. Birraranga Film Festival is the only Indigenous run indigenous film festival in Australia.

The Best Films You Have Never Seen

The RMIT The Best Films You Have Never Seen program at the Capitol will be screening Seven Samurai. We chat with Dr Stephen Gaunson here about this ground breaking film a must for amyone serious about filmmaking and viewing.

Lachlan Hannah Videographer

We chat with Lachlan Hannah who works as a Videographer for Basketball Australia.

Our Warrior: The story of Robbie Thorpe

Our Warrior: The story of Robbie Thorpe is now finished and we have a special community screening set for Saturday 15 February at Cinema Nova in Carlton!After over eight years, this project is now ready for the screen and you are invited to be the first to see it.This 53-minute documentary tracks the resurgence of a powerful Black, Indigenous, anti-colonial movement that is current

Dome Under Film Festival & The Great White Whale

We chat with Warik Lawrance here, Digital Production Designer and founder of the Dome Under Film Festival which screened at Scienceworks between Jan 31-Feb 2.Michael Dillon's great adventure film The Great White Whale will be screening at The Sun Cinema and Nova with accompaning Q&A. We revisit my chat with Michael Dillon here.

Wolfman

We go to the Melbourne premiere of Leigh Whannell's new film Wolfman - another reinvention of an old genre trope with surprising results. In cinema's now.