Interviews
Latest video interviews.
Without resorting to easy point scoring, ‘Paper City’ explores the fight for recognition by survivors of the 1945 Tokyo fire bombing – interview with Australian director Adrian Francis
“With the Old Guard there’s a reluctance to move on this at all.” Speaking from his home in Tokyo, Adelaide-born ...
In ‘Disgraceful’, Lucy Best recounts her naughty personal history, confronting issues of anxiety & misplaced shame; review/interview
“I want this show to be fun…I don’t want to dwell on the difficult bits but, of course, there were ...
It took the work ethic of a farmer’s son – and a lot of crew & community support – for writer/director Aaron Wilson to endure the 12 years of toil it took to bring ‘Little Tornadoes’ to the screen: interview
“I like to think of film as meditation for me. I’m a very hyper-active person. I’m always over-thinking and talking ...
In ‘Mother Mountain’ writer/director Celina Stang casts a fresh take on the stresses of young motherhood and keys into the links between the indigenous and Jewish experience – review/interview
“I was writing from a very cathartic place.” REVIEW MOTHER MOUNTAIN *** (105 minutes) M It’s hard enough being a ...
“Comedy is my way of making us all feel human together, because you can’t laugh with someone and hate them at the same time.”: Alice Fraser review & interview
“Sometimes I realize that I write my shows upside down.” REVIEW Alice Fraser, Chronos The Greek Centre Reviewed: 21 April ...
Making ‘When the Camera Stopped Rolling’ marked a new phase in Jane Castle’s barbed relationship with her remarkable mother
“I never actually wanted to make a film about her. I kinda had the shits with her.” While When the ...
Hard work still feels like play and experience has made stress a smaller issue for comedy festival fixture Simon Taylor: review/interview
“I do like that idea of the audience seeing you grow.” REVIEW Simon Taylor: Epic The Toff in Town Reviewed ...
In ‘Young, Dumb and Full of Mum’ Rose Callaghan discovers how having a child involves changing more than nappies: review & interview
“When I see what other women are going through and how hard they have it then I’m, like, ‘whoa! No-one’s ...
For Daniel Muggleton taking aim at tough topics has become a specialty as he tears through issues of whiteness, genocide and the willful ignorance of bogan culture
“I try and talk about intense things because they’re what people need to laugh about.” REVIEW Daniel Muggleton: White and ...
Brazen, bawdy and back on stage, Bev Killick returns to spread her special brand of joy, stroke be damned: review & interview
“Seriously, I kid you not, nine days after my stroke I was on stage.” – Bev Killick REVIEW Bev Killick: ...
