Latest Australian film Podcast Episodes
Katherine Grace on Working with Friend Holly Dodd on the Horror Short Alison & Betty
The Curb - April 10, 2024 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere's something in the water in Perth that leads to a creative movement from local filmmakers who push through microbudget limitations to tell engaging and inventive stories on screen. For emerging filmmakers Katherine Grace and Holly Dodd, that drive for creativity comes in the form of workin...
The Road to Patagonia Director Matty Hannon Talks About Living with the Land in This Interview
The Curb - March 17, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs a young man, Matty Hannon explored the world, sinking roots in the Southeast Asian region. Here, he made lifelong friends, became part of families, and fostered a connection with the land that was ultimately severed when he had to return home to Australia to kick off a 'career'. The towering ...
The Deepest Breath Composer Nainita Desai On the Art of Composing for Documentaries
The Curb - March 02, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNainita Desai is an award-winning composer whose work has spanned creative formats, from documentaries like The Reason I Jump where she won an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition, to TV series like Funny Women, to video games like Telling Lies and Immortality. With over 150 credits to her nam...
Daniel Monks Talks Through His Career From Pulse to In the Room Where He Waits in This Interview
The Curb - February 29, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDaniel Monks is an award winning theatre and film actor who hails from Perth, Western Australia. He received an AACTA nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the feature film Pulse, a story about a disabled teen who undergoes radical surgery to turn into a beautiful woman in a bid to be ...
Carl Joseph Papa Talks About How Richard Linklater Influenced His Rotoscoped Animation The Missing in This Interview
The Curb - February 17, 2024 03:29 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsListeners should note that the following interview contains discussions on childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Writer-director Carl Joseph Papa's The Missing follows Eric (Carlo Aquino), a young man who lives alone, maintains a crush on his coworker Carlo (Gio Gahol), and has a strong bond with ...
Carissa Lee Talks About Navigating Barriers in the Australian Arts System in This Interview
The Curb - February 08, 2024 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer whose work spans from critical analysis, to theatre, to the new ABC Kids series, Planet Lulin, where she plays Principal Cruz. Carissa's critical work has appeared in publications like Kill Your Darlings, IndigenousX, and Witness Performance, where her w...
Robert Connolly on Why Force of Nature Was His Hardest Film Shoot Yet in This Interview
The Curb - February 07, 2024 22:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRobert Connolly is one of Australia's great modern directors, having exploded onto the film scene some twenty years ago with The Bank, which was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the AFI awards, which he swiftly followed up with an impressive body of work that includes Paper Planes...
Patricia Clarkson Talks About Working Alongside Trace Lysette in the LGBTIQA+ Drama Monica in This Interview
The Curb - February 01, 2024 00:15 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor as long as I've been a devotee of cinema, I've followed the career of Patricia Clarkson. Patricia is a genuine queen of the screen, featuring in films like The Station Agent, Far From Heaven, The Green Mile, and Pieces of April, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Her latest ...
Sundance Interview - The Moogai Cinematographer Sean Ryan Talks About Crafting Tension on Screen for this Aboriginal Horror Film
The Curb - January 26, 2024 04:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJon Bell's unsettling 2021 short film, The Moogai, receives the feature film treatment with his 2024 horror of the same name. Making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, The Moogai follows in the steps of other Australian horror films (Talk to Me, Relic, You Won't Be Alone) to have ...
Bad Vibrations Writer/Director Nicole Delprado and Annabel Maclean Talking About Flickerfest and Creating Tension with a Theramine in This Interview
The Curb - January 17, 2024 11:37 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAustralian horror is experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment with the box office boom of Talk to Me, and the critical success of Godless, Monolith, You'll Never Find Me, Birdeater, and so many more. As we leave 2023 in the dust and we head into 2024, we want to start the year by co...
The First Episode of 2024
The Curb - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTo help support The Curb on Patreon, please visit Patreon.com/TheCurbAu. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Christmess Writer/Director Heath Davis Talks About Creating His Best Film Yet in This Interview
The Curb - December 01, 2023 02:47 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAussie indie filmmaker powerhouse Heath Davis is back with his fourth feature film, Christmess. This seasonally appropriate flick follows on fom his grounded work with his solid debut film Broke, in 2016. Heath quickly followed this up with the black comedy Book Week, before swerving into thrill...
Isla's Way Director Marion Pilowsky Talks About the Importance of Seeing the Story of an 87-Year-Old Woman in a Cinema in This Interview
The Curb - November 29, 2023 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMuch of what I do with The Curb is in a bid to shine a light on voices that may not often get the chance to be heard. That mindset carries through with director Marion Pilowsky's tenderly empathetic and joyfully curious documentary Isla's Way. Here we meet Isla Roberts. Isla isn't a lesbian. Sh...
Cat Person Director Susanna Fogel Talks About Presenting the Grey Area of Modern Dating on Screen in This Interview
The Curb - November 22, 2023 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen the short story Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian was published in The New Yorker in 2017, it immediately went viral with readers resonating with the way modern day dating can quickly turn toxic. It's a compelling place for director Susanna Fogel to build from with her adaptation of the short...
Scott Hicks Talks About Exploring The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process in This Interview
The Curb - November 17, 2023 03:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsScott Hicks is an Academy Award nominated director, with his Best Picture nominated film Shine bringing his work to international attention, alongside the work of the films subject, pianist David Helfgott. We're now some twenty-six years removed from the release of Shine, and the echoes of its ...
Bromley: Light After Dark - David & Yuge Bromley and Director Sean McDonald Chat About Creating a Space for Open Vulnerability in This Interview
The Curb - November 15, 2023 21:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEvery so often a presence swirls into our lives in an unexpected manner and changes it just a little bit. For many Australians, whether they be wealthy or not-so-wealthy, that presence is David Bromley. Here is a celebrated artist whose work features on the walls of galleries and private art col...
A Savage Christmas Director Madeleine Dyer Talks About Crafting a Comedic Aussie Christmas in This Interview
The Curb - November 15, 2023 04:55 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMadeleine Dyer is a writer, actor, director, and producer, whose body of work includes the 2017 comedy series Sexy Herpes, the acclaimed comedy series Colin from Accounts, where she worked with her sister Harriet Dyer, and now her latest film, A Savage Christmas, out in cinemas on 16 November 20...
Bird Drone Director Radheya Jegatheva Talks About Perth Sunsets and Seagulls in This Interview
The Curb - November 09, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRadheya Jegatheva is a Perth based filmmaker. His work includes the award winning short Pacing the Pool, about Perth local Richard Pace, and The Quiet, an animated film about an astronaut contemplating existence. His latest short animated film, Bird Drone, is a collaboration with writer Clare T...
Damage Director Madeleine Blackwell Talks About Working Alongside Ali Al Jenabi to Bring This Story of Humanity to Life in This Interview
The Curb - November 08, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWith her delicate and gentle drama Damage, director Madeleine Blackwell has crafted a parable that layers grief, trauma, a sense of location and what it means to live away from home, and more into an emotionally enriching experience. Damage follows Ali, played by Ali Al Jenabi, a refugee in Aust...
My Darling in Stirling Director Bill Mousoulis Talks About Creating a Musical in the Adelaide Hills in This Interview
The Curb - November 02, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFilmmaker, critic, and cultural historian Bill Mousoulis has forged a career as, in the truest sense of the word, an independent filmmaker in Australia. His filmography spans over decades, with his works showcasing a keen sense of curiosity for the world around him, whether it be Greece, Melbour...
Foe Director Garth Davis Talks About Creating a Human Connection on Screen with Saorise Ronan and Paul Mescal in This Interview
The Curb - October 31, 2023 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGarth Davis is a filmmaker who has explored the human need for connection in his films. Whether it's in his Best Picture nominee Lion, or in his latest film, Foe, that sense of being one with the person you love is a tangible thread throughout his career. In the following interview, Garth talks ...
Anupam Sharma Breaks Down His Documentary Brand Hollywood Downunder in This Interview
The Curb - October 30, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFilmmaker Anupam Sharma talks about his new documentary Brand Bollywood Downunder in this in depth interview which touches on the cross-cultural relationship between India and Australia on screen, what makes a Bollywood film a Bollywood film, and about the Australian Indian Visual Co-Production ...
Paullina Simons Talks About Her New Novel Light at Lavelle and the Emotionality of Her Characters in This Interview
The Curb - October 27, 2023 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Andrew interviews celebrated author Paullina Simons about her latest novel, Light at Lavelle. It tells the story Finn Evans, a Bostonian banker who at the end of the 1920s finds his life unexpectedly swirling into the orbit of Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer. Light at L...
Monolith Director Matt Vesely Talks About Why South Australia is the Hotbed for Genre Filmmaking Right Now in This Interview
The Curb - October 25, 2023 03:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn this episode, Andrew chats with director Matt Vesely about his feature film debut Monolith. Monolith is a chilling sci-fi thriller follows a journalist, played by Lily Sullivan, whose livelihood is at stake after a defamation case threatens her career. In a bid to escape the pressure of the ...
Editor William Goldenberg and Costume Designer Charlese Antoinette Jones Talk About Working on Ben Affleck's Air in These Interviews
The Curb - October 22, 2023 05:35 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this double interview episode, Andrew chats with two of the creative minds behind Ben Affleck's latest film, Air. Air tells the story of how sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) pursued Michael Jordan and changed history for Nike and basketball with the creation of the iconic...
Love is in the Air Director Adrian Powers Talks About Working with Delta Goodrem in Paradise in This Interview
The Curb - October 12, 2023 21:58 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn this episode, Andrew chats to writer, director, and editor Adrian Powers about his new film Love is in the Air. This romantic drama tells the story of Dana, played by Delta Goodrem in her return to acting. Dana is a seaplane pilot in Far North Queensland and when she's not monitoring the regi...
Suka Director Heidi Lee Douglas Talks About Shooting Neon-Noir Action on the Streets of Western Sydney in This Interview
The Curb - October 04, 2023 11:28 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Andrew interview filmmaker Heidi Lee Douglas about her new film Suka. Written by Tsu Shan Chambers and Lily Cheng, this neon-soaked action flick tells a story that spans decades, detailing the the fury that rages between two feuding families in Western Sydney. Suka is both a mu...
Matthew Holmes Talks About the Tangible Tension of Thriller Film The Cost in This Interview
The Curb - October 04, 2023 04:09 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsListeners are advised that this podcast includes mention of sexual assault and trauma. In this episode, Andrew interviews writer and director Matthew Holmes about his latest film, The Cost. This is a searing vigilante thriller that tells the story of two men, David and Aaron, who abduct the new...
Rebel With a Cause Producers Dena Curtis and Citt Williams Talk About Amplifying First Nations Trailblazers in This Interview
The Curb - September 29, 2023 10:11 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Andrew interviews Dena Curtis and Citt Williams who are the producers behind the new NITV four part series Rebel With a Cause. This compelling and engaging documentary series follows four First Nations trailblazers - Senator Neville Bonner, poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, magistrate Pat...
Jack Dignan Opens Up About His Found Footage Horror Flick Puzzle Box in This Interview
The Curb - September 21, 2023 18:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn this episode Andrew chats with Aussie filmmaker Jack Dignan about his found footage horror film, Puzzle Box. Olivia (Laneikka Denne) heads out to a remote house in the woods to help her sister Kait (Kaitlyn Boyé) rehabilitate and escape her life of addiction. Olivia aims to document the proc...
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