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The fast approaching deadline for films for the Setting Sun Film Festival gives us as opportunity to catch up with Festival Director Anna Bourazoukas.

You are listening to a conversation I had recently with filmmaker Matthew Walker about his film I'm Wanita which is opening tonight January the 6th in cinemas.It focuses on an amazing talent and a wild woman Wanita she lives in Tamworth and is billed as the Queen of Australian Honky Tonk. The film is an amazing document a force of nature.

We are listening to a chat I had with Ivan Sen about his upcoming new film Loveland. Loveland is out in cinemas in February.

Today we talk with Spencer MacLaren who is part of the Steve Jaggi Production House in Queensland. He is talking to us about a series  called Dive Club now showing now on Netflix, shot in Queensland and aiming for the young adult market with a strong ensemble cast of young female performers.

Today we are going to a recent interview with Molly Reynolds in honour of the passing of the great first nations actor David Dalaithngu. My Name is David Gullipil will be the last film from the legendary David Gullipil.

Today I am replaying an interview I did with writer director Madeine Mariniello about her film Palazzo di Cozzo, a quintessentially Australian document. Palazzo di Cozzo documents the life and times of the larger than life character Franco Cozzo furniture magnate in Melbourne but also a symbol of the arrival of Italian migrants after the second world war into a determinedly anglo White Australian story line.

Today a film called Lion Spy. The world we live in has only 20,000 wild lions. South African born and Australian raised Filmmaker Rogue Rubin's aim was to find out how it was possible for this terrible position to have come about and how lions could be saved. This lead her trophy hunting. Lion Spy is an investigative report which takes us into the belly of the beast as well as the revelation of some unsavoury truths about boarder issues behind why lions are headed to the endangered animals list. I spoke to Rogue about her extraordianary film. Release dates

We hear from Brisbane filmmakers Jaina Kalifa and Amelia Paxman about their film Lost Contact winner of the best documentary at this years St Kilda Film Festival and now in contention for an Oscar.

Today a little departure from the usual look at film productions and practitioners and a look at technology that is being used to create the moving image. I recieved a release about a Melbourne-based film technology company Blackmagic Design who announced that the award winning documentary Playing With Sharks, which looks at the life of Valerie Taylor, used it’s Cintel Scanner C-Drive HDR to digitise hundreds of hours of underwater archival footage, much of it shot by the Aussie shark researcher and photographer decades ago. This set a train of thought about all the different types of formats that the material must have been shot on and the hours of material to be processed and the technology behind making such a project manageable physically and financially seemed just short of miraclous. At least worth finding out about.

We talk to producer Shahn Devendran the producer of six 30 min docos  called Unheard premiering on Amazon Prime on Oct 29th which shines a light on Australian rascism and it's affects on real people and real lives.If you want to catch Unheard go to Amazonprime. If you want more pn the issues and people fighting for positive change go to Ladbible.com/unheard or toNational Justice ProjectHuman Rights CommissionAsian Australian AllianceNational Aboriginal and Torres Islander Legal ServicesIslamophopia registerAll Together Now