Out Takes

It’s no secret we love the international film award season so we made the obvious choice to dedicate this entire program to THE ultimate event, the 96th Academy Awards. It’s been another interesting take on the ‘best’ in cinema over the past 12 months and recognising what that means in the film industry but as always we have our favourites and love to take the time to dissect and discuss who will win, who we wanted to win and who was snubbed (we’re looking at you ‘All Of Us Strangers’).

We also welcomed back our international correspondent Dion Blackler all the way from London to help us go through this year’s Oscar nominations and provide some great analysis to our chat. As always, we had a great time taking a deep dive in to the nominees and while we acknowledge the frontrunner in the race (hello ‘Oppenheimer’), we also made some big swings at a few categories that we hope could have a surprise or two for us all when the winners are announced Monday March 11 from 11am AEDT. Happy Oscars!

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This was a jam packed Out Takes, full of all the things we love to feature on our program; local queer productions, interviews with their creators and special guests. For the latter, we were joined by Aarushi and Demetra to help us review two new very Aussie and very Queer projects that are available to view online in March.

‘Equal The Contest’ is a wonderful documentary by Mitch Nivalis that tells their story as a 42-year-old, non-binary filmmaker who joins a new local women’s footy club in Regional Victoria where a simple desire to play becomes a complex journey of inclusion and belonging. An unexpected turn means the team has to fight to play and their campaign challenges age old sporting traditions and joins the wider movement for gender equity. Mitch was one of our special guests for this show and we were delighted to meet them and get the story behind the story on their incredibly engaging and entertaining film.

We also took a look at ‘Triple OH!’, a 5-part series streaming via SBS on Demand that explores the personal and professional lives of Tayls and Cate, two paramedics with strikingly different personalities, who ride together to save people from life-threatening and sometimes bizarre medical emergencies, while figuring out their attraction for each other along the way. Starring Brooke Satchwell and Tahlee Fereday, this inventive online short-form approach to storytelling packs a lot in, with each episode clocking in at under 11 minutes and featuring a lot of laughs, queer sexual chemistry and medical misadventures to keep you hooked to the end. Co-creator and writer of the series Erica Harrison also joined us on the show where we discussed local queer representation on our screens and how this project is another great chapter in our community telling our stories.

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For this Out Takes, we took a deep dive with some very special guests in to the return of the premier event for nonfiction screen content in the Southern Hemisphere. This year’s Australian International Documentary Conference a.k.a. the AIDC, is back in Melbourne this March, welcoming industry players from across the globe to drive collaboration, development, and production and to inspire innovation and ignite social change.

First up, we featured a beautiful documentary that is garnering well deserved praise and accolades around the world including being the first ever film to win the Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and the Teddy Award for best queer short film at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. ‘Marungka Tjalatjunu’, which translates in to Dipped in Black, tells the story of Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch who leaves behind the oppression of white city life in Adelaide and embarks on a road trip back to Country for spiritual healing, as memories from his childhood return. Both Derik and his co-director / collaborator Matthew Thorne joined us to discuss the film and share their story with us. We were also delighted to be joined by Natasha Gadd, the creative director and CEO of the Australian International Documentary Conference, who gave us the full scoop on this year’s program, guest speakers, special screenings and more.

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For this Out Takes, we brought you some reviews and an exclusive interview for the return of one of our favourite film festivals for 2024. This year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival is back screening in Sydney this February with a selection of on demand content streaming nationwide in March. For full details on the line up of films, events and more, check it out here.

Our first review was of a film that received an 11-and-a-half-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. ‘Monica’ stars Trace Lysette in the lead role as a trans woman navigating the world on her own in LA before receiving a call to head back to Ohio to help care for her estranged dying mother, played by Patricia Clarkson. This is the third feature film from writer director Andrea Pallaoro who joined us from LA to discuss the film, the inspiration behind the lead character, the incredible cast and so much more. We also took a look at another high-profile film in this year’s program, ‘The Mattachine Family’ which stars Nico Tortorella and Emily Hampshire.

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This year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival is back screening in Sydney from February 15 to 29, before an on demand encore streaming nationwide from March 1 to 11. Now in its 31st year, the Festival theme for 2024 encourages the audience to indulge in a good, old-fashioned, post-screening discussion (or debate!) and with an epic 161 films and events spread across 77 unique programs, MGFF24 will be on everyone’s lips. Check out queerscreen.org.au for full details on the line up of films, events and more.

To find out all the glorious details about this year’s festival we went straight to the source, one of our favourite returning guests, festival director Lisa Rose. We also revisited our chat with Marion Pilowsky from last November to talk about her wonderful documentary ‘Isla’s Way’ which is also screening in this years MGFF.

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With an upcoming retrospective coming to Melbourne cinemas soon, we took this oppoprtunity to revisit the career of one of our favourite filthy filmmakers – the man. the myth and the legend that is John Waters. We looked back at his leagcy including his most recent accomplishment of being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and we spoke to to Jaymes Durante, the Marketing Manager for the Classic and Lido cinemas, about their retrospective that kicks off this month featuring 12 of John Waters classic films on the big screen. We also revisited our interview with the man himself from 2019 where we discussed his remarkable career, his iconic work with Divine and more.

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Ever since the announcement was made in 2020 that there was a film version of the ‘Mean Girls’ musical coming, we’ve been waiting and hoping that it was going to live up to the legacy of the 2004 teen classic. Well, the moment is here, so we knew we had to dedicate a show to ‘Mean Girls’ 2.0 and find out if it is as fetch as the first one!

To atart of, we revisited the original Mean Girls and discussed how this film went on to become such a significant moment in teen cinema history and why it is still a joy to watch 20 years later. Then we turned the spotlight on the new version and gave our verdict on whether it lives up to the hype with its fresh take on some much loved characters plus all of the singing and dancing added in to the mix because don’t forget, this is a movie musical people!

Finally we did a re-cap on the recent Golden Globes and discuss the winners plus the good, bad and ugly that we have come to expect from these award ceremonies.

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While this was our first program for 2024, we decided to say our final farewell to 2023 by taking a look back at the year that was and give a few of our picks for some of the best queer films and television we loved for the past year. As always, it was a mixed bag and in many ways we saw a few big breakout hits and a lot of great content that came our way on our big and small screens but there was also a major strike that saw the US film and television industry grind to a halt for nearly 6 months that has had and will continue to have a major impact on the industry ongoing for a while. But it didn’t stop us finding some great film and TV shows over the past 12 months that we were excited to share with you so dive in and see if we included any of your faves for 2023 too!

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