Interview Archive
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Jan Kenny, the first female cinematographer on an Australian feature film - Fran with Noni Hazelhurst - talking about her career and a course in Creative Coverage that she's running as the head of cinematography at AFTRS

Australian special effects expert, Jason Baird, talking about his career, including his work on Star Wars, in extended conversation with Michael Helms

A historical highlights package from Film Buffs' Forecast, including the 1983 end-of-year show, with John Flaus, Paul Harris, Leaping Larry L and Brett Duck, from Danger Low Brow, and Tom Ryan

Actor, Rebecca Frith, on her role in the new Paul Cox film Human Touch

Tony Zeccola, on his 40th anniversary in cinema exhibition

Doug Gibson from the Melbourne Film Composers' Society

Drive in owner and aficionado, David Kilderry

Journalist and film lover, Stephanie Bunbury, talking about the forthcoming Festival of German Films

Greg Macainsh, member of legendary '70s Australian band, Skyhooks, talking about his 1974 film, Sharpies

Teo Gebert, one of the stars of the Paul Middleditch film, A Cold Summer

Craig Boreham, director of Transient

Morgan O'Neill, director of One Last Hand

Mike Rubbo, director of Much Ado About Something

Aaron Blabey, Australian actor, talking about his career and work in the stage production of 12 Angry Men

Screenwriters, Kylie Eddy, David Knox and Byron Stone, talking about the production of The First for Screenplay Melbourne

Bill Kendall, Ben Cavern and Briony Davis, from MYFS, talking about their film, Shades of My Shadow

Lewis Fiander, veteran Australian actor and voiceover artist

Chris Löfvén, veteran Australian writer/director

Vincent Monton, legendary Australian cinematographer and latter day writer/director

Yen Ooi, director of My Sister - winner of the Best Australian Short at MIFF 2004

Melbourne's Youngest Film Buff, Grace Stewart, with some reviews for the kids

Writer/director, Georgina Willis, and writer, Kerry Rock, on their film Watermark

Sue Maslin, producer of Japanese Story and Road to Nhill, on the Marketing Feature Films - From Marketing to Release course at AFTRS

VCA filmmakers, Ben Hackworth and Mark Robinson, on their films, Violet Lives Upstairs and And One Step Back, respectively, screening at Fitzroy Shorts with Thomas Baricevic

Writer/director, Ruby Boukabou, and actress, Jayne Tuttle, talking about the SynchroCity production of Lead Role

Robert Marchand on the Mike Leigh Directing Method course at AFTRS

Marilyn Dooley from ScreenSound Australia

Mark Spratt from Potential Films, Australian distributor of Catherine Breillat's film, Anatomy of Hell

Matt Saville, Australian director of Roy Hollsdotter Live, on his short film, Sweetheart

Whispering in the Dark director, Lynne B. Williams and sound designer, Philip Brophy, on its screening at In the Realm of the Senses

Bill Mousoulis, the curator of the 2005 MUFF Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Retrospective and Gregory Pakis, writer/director of The Garth Method

Steve Jeffares, producer of Poker Kings

Our special St Kilda Film Festival programme, with guests including Nash Edgerton and Janine Barnes

Nicholas Hansen, documentary filmmaker and winner of the 2004 MAFIA documentary awards

Anthony Wallace, director of Deep Tissue

Circus ringmaster, Walter Lavarre

Reg Gorman, veteran Australian actor

Rod Hay, veteran Australian editor/producer/director

Tim Burstall, veteran Australian director/producer, with credits including Stork, Alvin Purple and Kangaroo

Hilary Linstead, Australian producer, talking about her film, Bootmen

Jill Bilcock, one of Australia's most accomplished film editors, talking about her career, with credits including Japanese Story, Moulin Rouge, The Dish, Head On, Romeo + Juliet, Muriel's Wedding, Strictly Ballroom and Dogs in Space

Everett De Roche, writer of Roadgames, Razorback, Windrider and a number of classic TV shows including Homicide, Solo One and Stingers, talking about his latest film Visitors

Ian Jones, veteran Australian writer/producer/director, with credits including Homicide, Matlock Police, Bluey and The Lighthorsemen

Peter Best, veteran Australian film score composer, talking about his long and varied career

Jonathan Teplitzky, writer/director of Better Than Sex, talking about his new film Gettin' Square

Gregor Jordan, the director of Ned Kelly, talking about his latest film to hit Australian cinemas, Buffalo Soldiers

Nigel Buesst talking about his film, Carlton + Goddard = Cinema

Amiel Courtin-Wilson talking about the Script Alive reading of his latest project, Warm Blood

Stephen Hall & Vin Hedger talking about the AFTRS workshop on writing sketch comedy for television

Leon Lissek - Veteran Australian Actor, finding a place in the hearts of Australians in The Sullivans to Time Bandits, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Whoops Apocalypse

Judith Lucy - Comic, actress and one of the stars of Crackerjack

David Bradbury - Documentary filmmaker, on the release of his latest film, Fond Memories of Cuba

Alan Cassell - Veteran Australian actor with credits including Money Movers, Breaker Morant, The Club, Puberty Blues and, recently, Sea Change

Paul Goldman - Director of the new Australian film, Australian Rules

Gary Sweet - One of the stars of the new Rolf de Heer film, The Tracker

Paul Grabowsky - Noted jazz pianist & Australian film score composer, with credits including Fred Schepisi's Last Orders and Paul Cox's Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Tony Bonner - Veteran Australian actor

Richard Lowenstein and Mark O'Toole - Executive producer and co-writer of John Safran's Music Jamboree

Rachael Perkins - Director and co-writer of One Night The Moon

Cezary Skubiszewski - Australian film score composer, with credits including Bootmen, The Wog Boy, Two Hands, The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Lillian's Story

Richard Lowenstein & Noah Taylor - Director and Star of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand

Roger Ward - Veteran Australian actor with a CV including Mad Max, Stone, Mad Dog Morgan and The Man from Hong Kong

Graeme Blundell & Alan Finney - Veteran Australian actor and Veteran Australian producer from films such as Alvin Purple, Don's Party and The Odd Angry Shot

Alan White - Director of Risk and Erskineville Kings

Frank Thring - in an interview with Paul Harris and John Flaus from 1993

Tom Long - from Sea Change, Two Hands and, now, Risk

Jamie Blanks - Melbourne's very own Director of Valentine and Urban Legend

Rob Sitch - Director of The Dish

Chris Begley & Thomas Baricevic - Director of Tropfest finalist, Like It Is, and one of the organisers of Short Trips @ Tramway

Denny Lawrence - Veteran Australian director

Jan Chapman - Producer of Walk the Talk

Stephen Johnson - Director of Yolngu Boy

Maurice Murphy - Director of 15 Amore

Rebecca McLean - Director of Deep

Gerry Nucifora - Boom Operator

Clara Law - Director of The Goddess of 1967

Garry Stewart - Veteran Australian actor manager

Roger Donaldson - Director of 13 Days

Patrick Hughes - Director of The Lighter and The Director

Craig Monahan - Director of The Interview - out now on DVD


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John Flaus & Richard Brennan - A veteran Australian actor with a veteran Australian producer

Amiel Courtin-Wilson - Director of Chasing Buddha

Franklyn Ajaye - Regular guest on The Panel, local Melbourne comic and also an actor on films such as Car Wash, Convoy and The Jazz Singer

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Director, Mark Vicente, about his film, What the Bleep Do We Know!?

Veteran Hollywood film producer and talent agent, Lawrence Turman, with Nick Black

Outtakes from an Orson Wells recording session - selling peas

Christa Lang - actor, writer and widow of Sam Fuller

Terry George, director of Hotel Rwanda

Don Coscarelli, director of Phantasm

Rick McKay, creator of Broadway: The Golden Age

Joshua Marston, director of Maria Full of Grace

Mario Van Peebles, actor and director of Baadasssss! How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass

Josh Zeman, Paul Harris, Rommley Emerick (Click for full size) Josh Zeman, co-producer of The Station Agent, and Danish filmmaker, Rommley Emerick

Bill Lustig, veteran filmmaker and CEO of cult DVD company, Blue Underground

Karen Sharpe Kramer, veteran Hollywood actress and widow of Stanley Kramer

Anthony Stern, English cinematographer, talking about his work with Pink Floyd, amongst other rock luminaries

Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor and writer/director of Twist

John Kricfalusi, animator and creator of Ren & Stimpy

Carrie Snodgress, veteran American actress with credits including Pale Rider, The Fury and Diary of a Mad Housewife, and one time wife of Neil Young and girlfriend of Jack Nitzsche

Nate Bolotin, American independent film producer

Paul Goldman on the passing of David Hemmings, who last worked in The Night We Called It A Day

Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, the directors of the Harvey Pekar biopic, American Splendor

John Kirk, MGM film archivist, on the release of the restored version of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Alberto Grimaldi, veteran Italian film producer, with credits including The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More and Last Tango in Paris

Pan Nalin - Director of last year's Melbourne Film Festival favourite, Samsara

Peter Dasent - Film score composer, long-time collaborator with Peter Jackson and driving force behind The Umbrellas, who produced last year's Bravo Nino Rota

Eddie Izzard - Comic, actor, transvestite. Is there anything he can't do? Talking about his role in Shadow of the Vampire as well as his role as Charlie Chaplin in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow

Arlene Donnelly - Director of the documentary about photographer, Spencer Tunick, Naked States

Fred Schepisi - Veteran Australian director talking about his latest film, Last Orders

Domenico Procacci - Producer of He Died With a Felafel in His Hand amongst many other films

Todd Solondz - Director of Storytelling

Mark Webber - Pulp guitarist and curator of the Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! programme of the Melbourne International Film Festival

Marc Forster - Director of Monster's Ball, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry and Heath Ledger

Christine Fugate - Director of The Girl Next Door

Alejandro González Iñárritu - Director of Amores Perros

Alison Maclean - Director of Jesus' Son

Bob Balser - Animation Director of Yellow Submarine

Tony Leung - Star of In the Mood for Love

Curtis Hanson - Director of Wonder Boys and LA Confidential

Nick Park & Peter Lord - Creators of Chicken Run, Wallace & Grommitt and Morph

Paul Mayersberg - Writer of the Mike Hodges film, Croupier as well as The Last Samurai and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, amongst others

Daniel Minahan - Writer/Director of Series 7

Sebastian Gutierrez - Writer/Director of Judas Kiss


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Richard Gibbs - Former member of Oingo Boingo and score composer of Queen of the Damned

Robert Forster - Hollywood veteran actor

Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson - Writer/Directors of Guest House Paradiso and stars of The Young Ones

Peter Bart - Hollywood heavyweight since the '60s as an executive at Paramount and MGM Studios and current Editor-in-Chief of Variety

Ray Harryhausen - Special visual effects creator since 1957 - from 20 Million Miles to Earth to Jason and the Argonauts to Clash of the Titans

Russ Meyer - Veteran Hollywood cult director


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