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42 - Selina Miles - Silenced and Zyzz

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2026/09/01

Selina Miles is an Emmy-award winning doco filmmaker from Sydney who's directed bangers such as MARTHA: A PICTURE STORY, HARLEY AND KATYA, the recent POSTER BOY: BECOMING ZYZZ, and our focus of conversation today: SILENCED, which follows the international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, exploring how defamation laws are weaponised around the world to silence victims of sexual violence - featuring figures such as Brittany Higgins and Amber Heard.Go watch Silenced

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41 - Haydn Keenan is GOING DOWN

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2026/05/09

Haydn Keenan is a director, writer and producer in Sydney, who's been making some of Australia's most unique cult films since the early 70s.In this interview I chat with him about his approach to financing transgressive films outside the state funding system, his 1987 fever-dream surrealist masterpiece Pandemonium, and his 1983 vibrant coming-of-age love letter to 1980s Sydney, Going Down, which is getting a cinema re-release from May 14th.Buy tickets to Going Down here.Keep up to date with Smart

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00:05:54

🔥💯 WE ARE SO BACK!!! 💯🔥

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2026/05/06

Oops sorry I ghosted there for a bit! But I'm back - and in this trailer, I chat a bit about where I been and where we're going!This weekend, the prodigal podcaster will return with a fresh new episode, interviewing the legendary cult Aussie filmmaker Haydn Keenan about his 1983 flick GOING DOWN which is getting a cinema re-release. Get your tickets here! I'll also give you a peek behind the curtains of what I've been doing (directing a doco about gay nuns)If you're in Australia and want to watch

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00:39:00

40 - 🐕 THE BIG DOG 🐕 with director Dane McCusker

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2023/11/08

The Big Dog is playing at a cinema near you! Tickets available here https://www.2cpictures.com/films/thebigdogDane McCusker is a director in Sydney, whose debut feature The Big Dog is about to start its theatrical release after sold-out sessions at Sydney Film Festival. The Big Dog is a dramedy about a married stockbroker with a penchant for the esoteric fetish "findom" - financial domination. When his secret dominatrix cleans out all of his bank accounts, he has one day to save his

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00:33:38

39 - Garth Davis Talks Foe and Contemporary Sci-Fi

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2023/11/02

Garth Davis is a director from Melbourne whose credits include the 6-time Oscar nominated Lion (2016), Mary Magdalene (2018), episodes of Jane Campion's show Top Of The Lake, and most recently Foe (2023). This episode we chatted about his beginnings in directing commercials, his first documentary feature in 2000 (one of Greig Fraser's first projects as DOP), his long-standing collaboration with previous Sound Perspective guest Robert Mackenzie, and his newest film, Foe: a heady blend of

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00:56:05

38 - Thomas M. Wright, Director of The Stranger and...

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2023/06/12

Thomas M. Wright is an Australian director in Melbourne. He started as an actor and has since directed 2 features, the most recent being The Stranger, a Netflix original crime thriller starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris which premiered at Cannes 2022. He's incredibly intelligent and articulate. In this interview we chatted about everything from dreams, to his bizarre writing style, and how he likes to develop the tone of his films. Follow me on Instagram and Letterboxd @alfiefaber Follow

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01:06:07

37 - Hlynur Pálmason talks Godland and Nest

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2023/04/19

Hlynur Pálmason is an Icelandic filmmaker and artist.films include Godland, A White White Day, and Winter Brothers. He's won awards at Cannes, Toronto, Locarno and more. I saw Godland at Sydney Film Festival last year and had an absurd out of body experience, he's very quickly become one of my favourite directors.

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00:48:05

36 - All Quiet on the Western Front - Frank Kruse and...

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2023/03/05

Happy awards season! Todays episode is with Frank Kruse and Lars Ginzel, sound supervisor and re-recording mixer of the new Netflix war film All Quiet on the Western Front, which recently won the BAFTA for Best Sound and is nominated for an Academy Award. Frank and Lars chat about their history in the German film industry, the extensive crowd recording done with hundreds of extras on set, and how they communicate with director Edward Berger. All Quiet on the Western Front is now available on Netflix

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35 - Maya Newell on The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone

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2022/09/27

Maya Newell is a documentary filmmaker in Sydney whose body of work is a beautiful testament to the power of documentary to engender empathy. Her first feature documentary, Gayby Baby, followed the experiences of children of same-sex parents, and her second, In My Blood It Runs, is a cinematic portrait of a young Indigenous boy in central Australia - it was selected for the Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab. Often working with her participants as credited collaborators, Maya's documentaries are

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34 - Sophie Hyde on Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

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2022/08/04

WARNING: In this episode, I repeatedly mispronounce Leo Grande. Sophie was really nice so she never corrected me and I didn’t realise till I uploaded. It’s not easy being this dumb but somehow I stumble through life. Sophie Hyde is a super talented Australian director from Adelaide whose first fiction feature, 52 Tuesdays, won directing awards at both Berlin and Sundance. Since then she’s been making a bunch of phenomenal work in features, doco and TV, most recently the film Good Luck To You, Leo

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00:47:04

33 - Elvis with Wayne Pashley and Elliott Wheeler

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2022/07/20

In this episode I chat to sound supervisor Wayne Pashley and composer/music producer Elliott Wheeler about their work on the new Elvis biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann. I joined Wayne at his studio Big Bang Sound Design, and Elliott Skyped in from the US. We chatted about their history working with Baz Luhrmann, the intense collaboration between sound design and music necessary for a soundtrack this dense, the contextual news recordings that Wayne used as “sonic glue” and the joy of bringing Elvis’s

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00:42:53

32 - The Novice - Director Lauren Hadaway

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2021/12/24

Lauren Hadaway is a director based in Los Angeles and Paris whose debut feature, The Novice, premiered this year at Tribecca to great reviews and several awards; it's since been released theatrically and has been nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards. However even before this phenomenal film, she was achieving remarkable success in post-production sound, having worked in ADR and sound editing for directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Zach Snyder and Damien Chazelle. In this interview we chatted

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00:47:32

31 - Power of the Dog - Robert Mackenzie and Dave...

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2021/12/08

In this episode I had a great interview with supervising sound editor Robert Mackenzie and sound designer Dave Whitehead about their work on Jane Campions psychological thriller Western, Power of the Dog. We chatted about their collaboration with Jane, finding the right sound of spurs, working with Johnny Greenwood's score, how Jane personally directed and oversaw the loop-group, and their thoughts on mixing for Netflix. Catch Power of the Dog now on Netflix! Follow me on Instagram or Letterboxed at

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00:51:07

30 - Ben Lawrence on Ithaka

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2021/11/01

Ben Lawrence is an Australian director whose credits include Hearts and Bones, Ghosthunter, and most recently Ithaka, a feature documentary following John Shipton, Jullian Assanges father, in his fight for Julian’s freedom. It’s premiering at Sydney Film Festival this Sunday 7th November, with music by Brian Eno. In my first face-to-face podcast interview in over 18 months, me and Ben chatted about how he pitted Hugo Weaving against first-time actors in Hearts and Bones, how he unwillingly became a

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00:25:34

29 - Eddie Martin talks Jisoe and The Kids

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2021/10/31

Eddie Martin is an Australian documentary director who shot to cult fame with his visceral 2005 documentary, Jisoe, about a Melbourne graffiti artist; some of his films since have included All This Mayhem, Have You Seen The Listers? and The Kids. The Kids revisits the cast of Larry Clarks cult 1995 film Kids, and is playing at Sydney Film Festival this year. In this Zoom chat me and Eddie discussed his background in the Melbourne skate scene and how he wanted to explore the alternative narrative

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28 - David France on Welcome to Chechnya

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2021/04/24

David France is a documentary filmmaker, writer and journalist in New York, whose directing credits include Oscar-Nominated How To Survive a Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, and last year's Welcome to Chechnya, the horrific story of the genocide of queer people in the Russian state of Chechnya. In this Skype interview we discussed his transition from journalism to film, how he ensured the anonymity of his subjects through ground-breaking VFX and ADR, and his working relationship with

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00:40:12

27 - Kate Simko - Underplayed

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2021/03/24

Kate Simko is a composer in London who's worked across a wide variety of docos and fiction films as well as having had a long career as an EDM DJ. Her most recent work is on the documentary Underplayed, which explores the issue of the lack of female-identifying DJs and the history of women in electronic music. We chatted about the influence of her upbringing in the Chicago music scene, her career as a DJ, finding a sound palette that sat between the music styles of Underplayed's participants, and

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00:46:59

26 - Aunty Donna - Director Max Miller and Composer...

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2020/11/21

Aunty Donna are a 6-piece comedy group from Melbourne, Australia, who have worked across video, stage performance, and music. They are very, very, very funny people. In this episode I chatted to two of the members; filmmaker Max Miller and composer/sound designer Tom Armstrong, about their new Netflix original series, Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun. We talked about how Tom likes to get involved from the sketch writing phase, how Max converts live sketches to something cinematic, their work

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25 - Glendyn Ivin from Quarantine

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2020/09/25

Glendyn Ivin is an Australian director of features such as Last Ride and Penguin Bloom, which just premiered at TIFF, as well as amazing TV shows such as The Cry, The Beautiful Lie, and Puberty Blues. I managed to have a Skype interview with him while he was stuck in a two week quarantine in a hotel in Sydney, and we had a really amazing chat about a massive range of topics; his background in documentary, passion for music, love of shooting with small crews and editing of bird sounds in Penguin

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00:35:54

24 - Talking Relic with Natalie Erika James and...

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2020/08/31

In this episode I chat with Natalie Erika James and Robert Mackenzie, the director and sound designer of the hit Australian horror film Relic. In this Skype interview, we talked about the collaborative process of having a sound team working in 3 different cities, creating an extensive sample library before the edit, and how they created a sense of organic decay through the soundtrack. Relic is currently available in Australia on Stan and overseas on rental platforms. Follow me on Facebook at Sound

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