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Director and writer, Kate Lefoe and Producer Hayley Adams have launched a crowdfunding campaign to start production of the first two episodes of Wicked Women a dramatic webseries chronicling the rise and rise of the magazine during the 80's.

Today we feature The Flood a film showing in this year's Fanforce Virtual Indigenous Film Festival. We talk to Victoria Wharfe-McIntyre and Justine Brown-McLeod.FanForce's Virtual Indigeous Film Festival 2020 runs through NAIDOC week screening 5 powerful films each night of the week, celebrating the rich heritage of Australia's First Nation Peoples. Each screening will features LIVE Q&As, with an  line up of community elders, artists, accademics and leaders in Indigenous cultural awareness. You can interact with the guest speakers via a live chat function and join in on the conversations.NAIDOC Week Film Festival Line Up:http://www.fanforcetv.com/categories/viffnaidoc2020In My Own Words - 11th November 7pm AEDTThe Song Keepers - 12th November 7pm AEDTThe Flood - 13th November 7pm AEDTWik Vs Queensland - 14th November 7pm AEDTWestwind: Djalu's Legacy - 15th November 7pm AEDTThe cost is $9.60 for one session and $29.50 for a festival ticket that covers the whole event.

During Covid  Screen Producers Australia or SPA for short was running what they called SPA Takeaways online to support the industry professionals keep in touch and giving tips on negotiating the rocky road for the industry during covid.They ran their last online event recently and it was an interview between SPA CEO Matthew Deaner and Australian veteran actor Jack Thompson. It gives a real sense of the growth and present position of the Australian film industry from a stalwart of the industry so I thought it was worth sharing.

Today we are going to look at the work of filmmaker Rory McLeod who is using his filmmaking to bring the issues of the health of the Barka Darling River system to public attention. You may remember his recent documentary When the River Runs Dry. Rory has been following the People's Tribunal into the health of the river system. The Tribunal recently released it's report which encompasses the voices of the people who live along the river's shore.The Citizns' Inquiry into the Health of the Barka/Darling River and Menindee Lakes.

An exerpt from a presentaiton by Robyn McNicholas from Marshmellow Laser Fest an XR producer at this years Australia International Documentary Conference. It gives an insight into the burgeoning immersive tech industry which affects our media future and is riding the back of the new cultural literacies inspired by the net. We open with introductions and will go on to an example of what this early adaptor company is doing.

Last week the Federal Communicatons Minsiter Paul Fletcher announced that his government was abolishing the Free to Air quotas for children's television without any corresponding legislation for streamers or other adjustments.I spoke to David Gurney from Blue Rocket Productions for an understanding of the new policy and what it means to Australian Children's Television Production.

Today we are talking with Alex Chew and Alicia Easaw-Mamutil who have just finished at the AFTRS Australian film television and Radio School in Sydney. Their  short film The End and the Beginning was their final project and has been accepted into several international film festivals. They give us an idea of how a filmmaker can learn their skills and get a result by going this path of study.

The Australian Writer's Guild has just announced it's nominee's for the 53rd Annual AWGIE Awardsthe awards that celebrate the work of writers in screen and stage in Australia.It is all happening on December 8th.Now one of the nominees in the feature category is C.S. McMullen’s debut feature The Other Lamb. Now at Showreel we were lucky enough to talk with C.S. McMullen about writing with some reference to The Other Lamb last year so I thought it would be great to revisit part of the conversation. The other voice you hear is Sean McMullin her father the well known writer of speculative fiction. Here we go.

Christian Gibson talks to us about his film Pacifica - a jpurney of a lifetime.

We talk to Luke Eve and Maria Albiñana about their Facebook web series Cancelled made in their flat in Spain during covid hard lockdown.