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Today we are going to the last night of the Melbourne Women's Film Festival. Jeni Thornley's film Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary was the final film of the festival. It is a mediative film cafted from Thornley's visual diary made up of super 8. It was commissioned by the Australian Film and Sound Archive. Here is the q&a after the film screening with Jeni Thornley.

We chat with Greg Dolgopolov, co-curator of the Inner West Film Festival running from 11-21 April. In it's second year this festival gives opportunities for an electic program which hosts the work of local Western Sydney creatives while digging deep to the past and present of different world cinemas. Greg gives and insight into why a festival and why it is important for local film makers. launchinstragram

We chat with Jonathan Page from Bonsai Films about their work as Executive Producer/ Producer & Distributor of some of Australia's best indi films.

MWFF Festival Director Sian Mitchell with program details for the Festival running from March 21-25 at ACMIHightlights include: Jazz Money's WINHANGANHA, Margot Nash's Undercurrents and closing nights Memory Film: a Filmmaker's Diary by Jeni Thornley

We chat with the makers of Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) Matthew Thorne & Derik Lynch here. The film won a Silver Bear (Short) at the 73th Berlin Film Festival and is showing as part of the AIDC's public screening program during the AIDC Conference 3-6 March at ACMI.We have a quick word with Jo-Anne Brechin here, director of One Perfect Match releasing in cinemas on Feb 29th after opening at the Blussh Romance Festival held in Brisbane (February 22-25).

Film culture in Melbourne has been given a boost by the Best Films You've Never Seen Program screening at The Capitol. We chat with RMIT Cinema Studies Lecturers  Adrian Danks, and Alexia Kannas about the choices they have made for the Feb 28th sessions Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter.

We hear exerpts from the Documentary Australia launch of the Wellbeing Documentary Guide  featuring Dr Mitzi Goldman Documentary Australia and filmmaker, Dr Rebecca Barry filmmaker, Akhim Dev - filmaker and Ben Steele Screen Well & Filmmaker. The Guide has been produced by Screen Well with support from SANE Australia and the film industry, as the stresses facing Documentary filmmakers is recognised.

We chat with writer/ director Mark Leonard Winter about his debut feature The Rooster starring Hugo Weaving and Pheonix Raei and featuring Rhys Mitchell (Cake, Upper Middle Bogan), John Waters (Offspring, Mystery Road), Robert Menzies (Little Tornadoes, Glitch) Tom Stokes (The Railway Man, Warnie), Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries) and Deirdre Rubenstein (Force of Destiny, Superwog). Screenings with Q&As:Melbourne - Thursday 22nd February at 6:30pm at Lido CinemasGeelong - Friday 23rd February at 7pm at Pivotonian Cinema GeelongSydney - Saturday 24th February at 6:30pm at Dendy NewtownBrisbane - Monday 26th February at 6:00pm at Dendy Coorparoo

We speak with curator of Screams on Screen at the Capitol,  Dr. Jess Babanzategui. SCREAMS ON SCREEN16-17 February, The CapitolOver two heart-stopping nights, celebrate the rebellious forces that fuel the horror genre with music, art, films and director talks. Featuring David Lynch’s early shorts, a 10th-anniversary screening of 'The Babadook' (2014), the first Iranian Vampire Western, 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' (2014), Australian folk-horror 'Celia' (1989), an exhibition of Isabell Peppard’s sculptures and more.

Filmmaker Saara Lamberg tells us about her new feature The Lies We Tell Ourselves screening at the Lido on Thursday, Feb 1 @ 7pm.