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We chat with Peter Taft from ATOM - Australian Teachers of Media. ATOM supports media teachers and teachers in general with hundreds of book, dvds and streaming resources as well as running competitions which sharpen the media skills of kids in Primary and Secondary school.One of the latest offerings is Democracy’s Watchdogs: Bob Bottom, available to stream now from The Education Shop. It is part of nine part series.To help support ATOM go to GiveNow.

Australia has become home to a lot of oversea productions. At the moment La Brea, an LA centric series, is being shot in Melbourne. I had the opportuntiy to chat with one of the the actors Eoin Macken. He also was in last weeks featured film Till Death and is also releasing a Here are the Young Men, a Dublin based production that he wrote and directed. Both films are now available on Home Entertainment. I had a chance to ask Eoin about what it is like to work on such a diverse range of films and his life in Melbourne at the moment.

We speak with S.K. Dale about his film Till Death. A young man with five shorts under his belt, bringing his first feature to the screen, backed by American money and big stars, he has produced a knock out thriller.

We join the hurrah around the Olympics in Japan with a mocumendarty series screening on the ABC called The Power of the The Dream. The brain child of Alexandra Keddie and Bobbie-Jean Henning the series follows “cousin-best-friends” Amy and Brooke Bland as they trial various Olympic sports to see which one will take them all the way to the podium. All six episodes of The Power of the Dream will launch on The Power of the Dream Instagram and Facebook pages on July 14.Now we go to a chat I had with Damon Smith versatile musican now filmmaker who has worked with Adam Coad and Regional Arts Victoria and Creative Victoria to bring the stage show Mental As Everything to the screen. It is all about removing myths around mental health as told by people who have lived experience. It is scheduled for the Melb Documentary Film Festival but with the covid lock down you will have to check the Nova Carlton website for updates about cinema times.

We look at Sarah Marcuson's short film A Holy Duty which explores the work of the volunteer organisation “Chevra Kadisha”, or “Sacred Society” which cares for the dead in the Jewish religion. We follow with a chat with Nick Barkla about his film The Healing which is the opening film at the upcoming Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. When you bring damaged, left over race horses and struggling ex-service people together magic happens. A fascinating film.

We profile two films which will be screened at the Nova during MDFF between July 21 - 32.Roger Unger talks about his documentary feature Finding Creativity.Christian Berzi talks about making of his documentary Inner Portrait a profile of photographic artist R J Poole, who formerly served in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS).

We chat with film makers Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo about their film Harbour Lights. This is followed with a chat with Yau-Ming about his short film The Last Typewriter Shop in Melbourne. Both films will be showing at the next Melbourne Documentary Film Festival running over 10 days in July - July 21 - 31 at Nova Cinema.

And today we talk with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo about their company Wind & Sky - a production house located in Ballarat which specialises in short form documentaries.

Today we hear from Kathie Mayer about her work as a voice coach to actors at Flexible Voice.We follow with a small exerpt from the Australian International Documentary Conference that happened earlier in the year. It is a part of a much longer chat with documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney.  AIDC website is a fantastic resource for people who make and watch documentaries. They have monthly scenings at Nova in Carlton covid permitting and a yearly event which this year took people all over the world. It was a trully extraordinary collection of filmmakers and the processes they engage in.

My Name is David Gulpilil will be the last film from the legendary David Gulpilil. He worked with three of his long time collaborators to create this good bye letter to us and I spoke to one of them Molly Reynolds about the film in cinemas this month.