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Presented by Suzi Taylor and Bree McKilligan. Reviews by Lesley Chow and guest reviewer Sharon Hurst.

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Jump Cut 2010>> 

June 24>> The Melbourne International Animation Festival is on until 27 June. Director Malcom Turner and animator Mark Sheard talk about what’s on

June 17>> Radiothon!! Call in and donate for film tickets, festival passes, theatre tickets, DVDs, books, Readings voucher and film training course vouchers.

June 10>> Dr Anne Harris talks to Bree about her Phd ethnocinema project with 16 young Sudanese women Cross Marked.

June 3>> Suzi talks with writer/director Rosie Jones about her film Westall 1966: a suburban UFO Mystery and to Marc Gracie about Short and Sharp pitching competition at Open Channel.

May 27>>More film reviews on Jump Cut! Nicole Hurtubise reviews gritty UK drama Fish Tank and Bill Dellear reviews vigilante thriller starring Michael Caine, Harry Brown. Bree braced herself and watched The Stoning of Soraya M, US drama adapted from French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam's 1994 book (banned in Iran) of the same title based on a true story.

May 20>> Sharon Hurst reviews latest film offerings including Gillian Armstrong’s Love, Lust and Lies, The Kings of Mykonos, Harry Brown and more.

May 13>>The ReelDance Film Festival is on (13 - 16 May) and Festival Director Traci Mitchell tells Bree and Lesley all about it.. 

May 6 >>  Suzi and Brodie talk  to Andrew Scarana about his documentary Into The Shadows.

April 29>> The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) is on in Melbourne 23 April to the 9 May. Bree talks to the festival director and to local filmmaker Amie Batalibasi about her film Tide of Change which screens in the Climate Change Shorts program.

April 22>> Suzi and Brodie talk to director Alkinos Tsilimidos about his latest film Blind Company starring Colin Friels and screening at the Nova Cinema with a Q + A with the director on April 28. They will also review another Q + A Nova Cinema event, this time for the documentary Rocksteady.

April 15>> Bree talks to ACMI about their Desert Island Flicks evenings - a must for the cinefile listmaker!. Sonya Everard, guest presenter and 3CR Yarrabug presenter, reviews with Bree A Single Man.

April 8>> Suzi speaks with Klaus Krischok about the upcoming Audi Festival of German Films. Brodie reviews Accidents Happen.

April 1>> La Mirada is on from 1 - 11 April and Bree and guest presenter Nicole Hurtubise interview this Spanish film festival's director while also reviewing three of the films.

March 25>> Suzi and Brodie interview Filmoteca about their March 30 film Mariam Hassan: the Voice of the Sahara. Brodie reviews Micmacs.

March 18>> Suzi interviews french director Philipe Loiret about his latest film Welcome. Bree joins Suzi to review/preview some films from the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (17 - 28 March).

March 11>> The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is on from 17 - 28 March and Suzi speaks to festival director Lisa Daniel. Guest reviewer Nicole Hurtubise review The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Nicole tells us about the documentary Good Hair from ACMI.

March 4>> Suzi speaks with Patrice Pauc, director of the upcoming French Film Festival. Bill from 3CR’s Keep Left reviews From Paris with Love and The Last Station.

February 25 - Lesley interviews ACMI's James Nolen, curator of Focus on Jean Paul Gaultier, a tribute to the maverick costume designer.  The season runs at ACMI from 11 to 19 March. Bree and guest presenter Nicole Hurtubise review french film A Prophet and also interview Mitu Bowmick Lange from the Indian Film Festival. 

February 18 - Suzi speaks with Corey O'Meara, producer of the Hillside Film Festival (19-20 February).  Guest presenter Brodie Flint joins Suzi to discuss Burma VJ, screening at Nova cinema with a Q and A; they also interview video journalist Carmela Baranowska and Toe Zaw Latt, Bureau Chief for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, a multi-media foundation committed to responsible journalism.

February 11 - Suzi is joined by award-winning sound designer Emma Bortignon (Noise, Underbelly, Balibo) to reflect on her career, discuss the role of sound design in film and talk about an upcoming sound design course she's running at AFTRS. Plus 'what's ons' in the Melbourne film scene.

February 4 - First show of the year! Lesley and Bree talk to producer Bridget Callow about the Nova Cinema's Script Alive for the script The Insect King. Bill Dellear joins Lesley and Bree to debate the merits of Precious while Bree talks briefly about ACMI's upcoming screening of The Time That Remains from Palestinian filmmaker Elia Sulieman.

Jump Cut 2009>>  

December 24 - Replay of Jump Cut's best interview of the year - Suzi's interview with filmmaker Warwick Thornton and producer Kath Shelper who were the team that brought us the multi award-winning film, Samson and Delilah.

December 16 - Suzi and Bree are joined by guest reviewer Sharon Hurst of Cinephile to discuss summer films including Where the Wild Things Are, Antichrist, Bright Star, Nowhere Boy, Broken Embraces and Avatar.

December 11 - Lesley interviews ACMI programmer Christy Mathesson about Dennis Hopper; Suzi speaks with local filmmaker Thomas Baricevic about Step by Step, a documentary about Sudanese youth in Melbourne screening December 14 at ACMI.

November 26 - Suzi and Bill Deller from Keep Left talk about Mike Moore's latest offering Capitalism, a Love Story and Suzi interviews Iranian filmmaker Grenaz Mousavi about My Tehran for Sale.

 

November 19 - Suzi speaks with the Melbourne Filmoteca about the Women of Brukman screening.  Mary Keily from Big West about Western Shorts, a night of short films.

12 - Suzi speaks with organiser of the Palestinian Film Festival and speaks to Channel 31 about their recent good news!

November 5 - Melbourne filmmaker Anna Brownfield talks about to Bree about her recent visit to the Berlin Porn Film Festival where her film The Band opened the festival! Bree also talks to the programmer of the always impressive Jewish Film Festival.

October 29 - The Melbourne Bike Film Festival rolls into town 12 - 29 November and producer Pip Carroll tells us all about the festivities - films, parades, art exhibition and much more.

October 22 - We chat to Diane Cook, an organiser of Melbourne's second Buddhist Film Festival, screening at ACMI, 30 October - 1 November.

October 15 -  Phil Grabsky,  the filmmaker of The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan speaks to Suzi about his latest documentary, In Search of Beethoven.  Also  some what's ons in the film scene.

October 7 - Sharon Hurst, a reviewer at Cinephile talks to Suzi about Mao's Last Dancer, Julie and Julia, Departures, Whatever Works and Che.

October 1 - We focus on the Australian Malaysian Film Festival at ACMI, 4 - 7 October and discover Malaysia's latest films. Roger Kemp from RMIT discusses two interdisciplinary performances that are part of the time.transcendence.performance conference which is currently taking place at Monash University.

September 24 - Burmese activist Myint Myint San talks to Bree about the screening of Burma VJ at RMIT on Sunday 27 September. Hollywood screenwriter Paul Margolis chats about his upcoming seminar 'How to break into Hollywood from 10 000 km away' at the VCA, 10 and 11 October (Find out more).

September 17 - Suzi and Keep Left broadcaster Bill Dellear discuss Richard Frankland's Aboriginal comedy Stone Bros. Bill also talks to Bree about Ken Loach's 'male fairytale' Looking For Eric.

September 10 - Ana Kokkinos talks to Suzi about her latest Australian feature Blessed.

September 3 - Andrew Lowenthal, a founder of Engage Media is talks about what the organisation does and discusses an up-coming campaign for climate change awareness. Followed by industry news and give-aways.

August 27 - Suzi chats to film reviewer Sharon Hurst about the latest batch of films.

August 20 - Suzi interviews Australian director Serhat Caradee about his gritty debut feature Cedar Boys.

August 14 - Bree and Elanor McInerney (Tuesday Breakfast, Women on The Line and Stick Together) talk to director  Robert Connolly about  about his latest feature Balibo, the depiction of the death of journalists on the eve of the invasion of East Timor.

August 6 - Suzi talks to Melbourne filmmaker Joel Anderson's acclaimed ghost story Lake Mungo while Suzi and Bree talk to the director of The Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls, screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

July 30 - Melbourne filmmaker Jane Oehr talks about Tea with Madame Clos, a simple yet effecting documentary about a wonderous 96 year old Frenchwoman. Bree finds out from US director Ondi Timoner about the 'intensely immersive portrait' in We Live in Public. Both screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival. 

July 23 - the Melbourne International Film Festival's Senior Programmer, Michelle Carey, talks to Suzi about program highlights and recent programming controversies. Independent Australian film director Kriv Stenders chats about his latest fictional feature Lucky Country.

July 16 - Channel 31's Cam Mendelsson talks to Suzi about Digital TV. Bree talks to Rowan Wood about his U.S foray Winged Creatures.

July 9 - Animator Simon Carrigan comes in to talk about The Petrol Can Rider at Bus Gallery, 30th June – 17th July 2009: "Animation melding the influences of Franz Kafka, Mad Max, and the petrol price "crisis".  Satire & existentialism at 12 frames a second!" While Rowan Spong chats about his film "T" Is For Teacher which is screening at the Bayside Film Festival, 15 - 18 July.

July 2 - Bree is joined by Nicole Hurtubise of 3CR's DIY Arts Show and we talk to Kristy Matheson from ACMI about their Focus on Girls 3- 12 July. "From desperate housewives to rampaging teenage anarchists, 'the girls' are up front in these stylistically brazen films by women directors from the sixties and early seventies."

June 25 - Local legend Jack Charles, subject of the documentary Bastardy, is visiting with director Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Chasing Buddha). Bastardy is screening at cinemas from 25 June onwards.

June 18 - Suzi talks to Fiona Cochrane, Melbourne director, about her new feature film Four Of A Kind which is screening at the Nova Cinema. Bree chats to Malcom Turner from Melbourne International Animation Film Festival, 22 - 28. It's going to be amazing so get along!!

June 11 - Jump Cut Radiothon!! $1000 to raise in 30 minutes. We have lots of giveaways - film tickets, dvds, training courses. Call 9419 8377. Email us for the complete list.

June 4 - Sharon Hurst reviews films.

May 28 - Suzi speaks to Melbourne filmmaker Sarah Watts about her second feature, My Year Without Sex.

May 21 - Director Steven Levett talks about It's Raining Pleasure, his documentary about The Triffids while scriptwriter Scott Taylor spruiks Open Channel's upcoming scriptwriting course From Concept to Script.

May 14 - Reviews of The Baader Meinhof Complex and Melbourne filmmaker Sarah Watt's My Year Without Sex from Nicole Hurtubise and Bree while Paul Harris, director of The St Kilda Film Festival tells us what he has in store for audiences 26 - 31 May.

May 7 - Helen Simondson from ACMI talks about Journeys Toward Justice which occurs on May 16.

April 30 - Director Warwick Thornton and producer Kath Shelper talk about their new Indigenous feature film, Samson and Delilah.

April 23 - ACMI's Richard Sowada talks about their First Look program in May. Four musical documentaries including Soul Power.

April 16 - Nalan Cebeci, director of the Melbourne Turkish Film Festival (19-24 April), talks about her program while Klaus Krischok, director of the German Film Festival (15 to 28 April), chats about the latest crop of German films.

April 9 -  Melbourne animator Adam Eliot and producer Melanie Coombs discuss their first feature, Max and Mary. It opened Sundance this year and starts its local season today. Come to 3CR's fundraising screening on Thursday 16 April.

April 2 - Lesley interviews Rocio Garcia, festival director of La Mirada: Jewels of Spanish Cinema, and Javier Fesser, director of the Spanish film Camino.  La Mirada takes place at ACMI April 2-12, with Camino screening on April 4.

March 26 - Kim Bullimore, Palestine-Israel issues journalist with Direct Action and activist with the International women's Peace Service in Palestine, talks about Defying Occupation, the second annual one-day documentary film festival about the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and justice. Saturday, 28 March .

March 19 - Israeli director, Nitzan Gilady, talks about his documentary Jerusalem Is Proud To Present. It screens Tuesday 24 March at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (18 - 29 March).

March 12 - Melbourne Queer Film Festival director Lisa Daniel talks about the 2009 program.

March 5 - Sharon Hursts reviews Australian films Two Fists One Heart, Love the Beast and The Combination and squeezes in Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire.

February 26 - Melbourne Cinematheque programmer Michael Koller talks to Lesley about the upcoming Ingmar Bergman season at ACMI.  Suzi speaks with director David Vadiveloo about his documentary Voices from the Cape.

February 19 - Lesley Chow interviews curator Roberta Ciabarra on ACMI's Dante Ferretti season.  Suzi talks to Indian-Australian documentary filmmaker Shweta Kishore about the upcoming screening of her documentary which is on the privatisation of water in India.

February 12 - Suzi speaks to costume designer Katie Graham (Wilfred, Bogan Pride) about her upcoming ACMI forum. Lots of whats on news and film giveaways.

February 5 - Conference Director Joost den Hartog speaks about the Australian International Documentary Conference, 18 - 20 February in Adelaide. ACMI joins in the Midsumma festivities with a focus on the gritty, cult-following Australian television series Prisoner and actress Jude Kuring.

Jump Cut 2008>>

December 18 - Last show of the year! Bree talks to Helen Hill, mother of the late activist filmmaker Pip Starr. Dave Sweeney, long term anti nuclear activist, will also speak about Pip's work. ACMI features Pip's films on December 20. Find out more about the program.

December 11 - ACMI's Roberta Ciabarra speaks about the current Focus on Spike Lee program. It runs until December 14.

December 4 - Repeat of the below program.

November 27 -  Suzi talks to David Vadiveloo, screen director and human rights advocate whose project Us Mob won international acclaim, about his model of working with Indigenous people and his Australian Human Rights Award for Community Achievement. 

November 20 -  We catch the tail end of the Jewish Film Festival 5 - 23 November, ACMI) with Blessed Is The Match. The documentary tells the story of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian Jewish resistance fighter and poet.  Associate producer Lisa Hofheimer is in Melbourne and will attend the screening Thursday 20 November. Colm McNaughton reviews UK film Hunger.

November 13 - The Bicycle Film Festival comes to town. 19 - 23 November. Festival director Pip Carroll gives us an overview while Melbourne filmmaker Callum Mowbray talks about his short film The Cycle. (This show is not podcast due to computer problems at 3CR.)

November 6 - The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is on 13 - 23 November and we speak to co-director Evelyn Tadros and local filmmaker Leila Koren.

October 30 - Suzi talks to Carol Cumming whose film The Third Date is screening as part of a retrospective of top films from the past five years of Open Channel's RAW NERVE program. These films will screen Wednesday 5 November at 7pm at the Nova Cinema.

October 23 - Jeni McMahon, producer from Rebel Films (Bush Mechanics, Going Bush) is one of the speakers for FRAMED 09# at Open Channel next Thursday, 30 October. Creating screen characters from fiction to documentary is the topic. We also talk about My Daughter, the Terrorist which gives an insight into the Tamil Struggle. It screens at the Copland Theatre at the University of Melbourne on Thursday, 30 October at 6.30pm.

October 16 - Lesley Chow interviews ACMI's curator Michelle Carey about their Desplechin season. Documentary filmmaker Scott Millwood talks about his latest documentary, What Ever Happened to Brenda Hean?

October 9 - Sharon Hurst, reviewer of Cinephilia, reviews what's on in our cinemas including The Lemon Tree, Man on Wire, Brideshead Revisited 

October 2 - Bree speaks to Steven Sebring about Dream of Life, a documentary on Patti Smith. The New York singer is in Melbourne for the Melbourne International Arts Festival, 9 - 25 October. Lizette Atkins, Melbourne producer, speaks about Lionel, a new documentary about Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose which is screening at ACMI.

September 25 -  Australian documentary maker Tom Zubrycki talks to 3CR's Colm McNaugton of the Stick Together Show about his large body of social justice documentaries.This is part two of a two part series.

September 17 - Australian documentary maker Tom Zubrycki talks to 3CR's Colm McNaugton of the Stick Together Show about his large body of social justice documentaries.This is part one of a two part series.

September 11 - Abbas Kiarostami and Victor Erice collaborate on Correspondences a multimedia installation at ACMI. Earthsharing Australia stage a housing film festival with I Want To Live Here.

September 4 - Lesley Chow reviews You Don't Mess with the Zohan, screening at the Astor Cinema, and the spectacular '40s melodrama Leave Her to Heaven, which is ACMI's First Look film for September. Suzi talks to Jim Knox, Co-Curator of the Jim Henson Retrospective at ACMI.

August 28 - The Other Film Festival, Australia's only disability film festival, is on 3 to 7 September and the festival director Rick Randall speaks about the festival. Israeli actor Gal Zaid talks about Foul Gestures, part of Israeli Film Festival  (1 - 7 Sept).

August 21 -  British documentary director Oliver Hodge talks about Garbage Warrior which features U.S.A eco architect Michael Reynolds. Reynolds builds off-the-grid-self-sufficient communities and encounters first world bureaucracy resistance but gratitude from 'third world' nations. Also featured is the 2008  Israeli Film Festival  (1 - 7 Sept).

August 14 -  Melbourne's Esben Storm  has his feature script One Last Kiss - 'A snappy story in a film noir vein' - given a reading at the Nova Cinema.

August 7 - Suzi talks to Sian Davies who is one of the Directors of Little Deaths and Tahir Cambis about his latest documentary Angel of the Wind. Both screen at Melbourne International Film Festival (25 July to 10 August) .

July 31 - British director Damian Harris talks about his fictional feature Gardens of the Night which deals with underage sex trade . Director Benjamin Gilmour discusses the Pakistani/Australian production, Son of a Lion. Both films screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival (25 July to 10 August).

July 24 - Reviewer Lesley Chow reviews upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival films as well as others. Tom Murray talks about his Australian documentary In My Father's Country which screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival (25 July to 10 August)

July 17 - Richard Sowada from ACMI talks about their Ozploitation season (25 July to 2 August). Popcorn Taxi spruiks their 22 July screening and Q + A on new feature, The Square.

July 10 - Suzi talks to the director of the Bayside Film Festival and local documentary filmmaker Amiel Courtin Wilson about his most recent film Bastardy.

July 3 - In this one hour show a young filmmaker and the director of Stories of an African Australia Short Film Screenings talk. These films screen at ACMI on Friday July 4 and 6. Peter Duncan discusses his latest Australian feature, Unfinished Sky with Suzi and Bree reviews Israeli film The Band's Visit.

June 26 - Suzi speaks with Anthony Hayes, director of Australian feature Ten Empty and to John Evagora, director of the short 296 Smith Street which shall screen at Melbourne International Film Festival (25 July to 10 August).

June 19 - Guest reviewer Lesley Chow speaks about Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky, ACMI's Feast of Fury marathon which features Akira and David Cronenberg's Existenz as well as the Tarentino and Robert Rodriguez's joint extravaganza Grindhouse which screens at the Astor. Producer Sue Brooks will discuss Hope, a feature documentary about the Siev X tragedy.

June 12 - RADIOTHON 2008!! Call in on 9419 8377 to donate money and win prizes! Our target is $1000. 

June 5 - Melbourne International Animation Festival director Malcolm Turner speaks about the 16 - 22 June program while one of the film's makers Nick Hilligloss discusses his film L'Animateur.

May 29 - Marcella Bidinost, Festival Director of Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids will be accompanied by young filmmaker Marisa Lai. The festival is on at ACMI June 4 - 9. Melbourne International Film Festival Senior Programmer Michelle Carey talks about MIFF's 2008 program which takes place 25 July to 10 August

May 22 - Franca Smarelli from the Melbourne Italian Festival talks about their film program. Filmmaker Vincent Lamberti speaks about his work in Alice Springs training up local Indigenous young people to tell their stories on film. 

May 15 - Documentary filmmaker Suzi Taylor joins Bree in the studio. Suzi interviews Mark Silver from ACMI's Digital Storytelling program. She also talks to filmmaker Yask Desai's about a self-funded documentary, The Rising Wave, about the privatisation of water in India. 

May 8 - Find out what will be screening at this years Reel Dance Film Festival which is in Melbourne 1 -11 May.

May 1 - 3CR will have a special May Day broadcast so there will be no Jump Cut.

April 24 - Paul Harris, director of the St Kilda Film Festival (6 - 11 May) on what the 2008 festival has to offer.

April 17 - Martin Gypkens, director of Nothing But Ghosts talks about his film, which is part of the German Film Festival 2008 at Como and Brighton Bay Cinemas, 17 -27 April.

April 10 - Michelle Carey from Melbourne Cinemateque talks about their Francios Trauffaut program, April 16 -30.

April 3 - Australian cartoonist, filmmaker and Oscar Academy Award winner Bruce Petty talks about his animated essay feature film Global Haywire. It screens at the Kino Cinema from April 3 to April 17.

March 27 - Kim Ballimore talks about the March 30th one-day film festival about the Israeli occupation of Palestine This is a fundraiser for the International Women's Peace Service (Palestine).

March 20 - Sofia Sambono from Canberra's Indigenous Collections Branch of the National Film and Sound Archive visits Melbourne. Melbourne filmmaker Kasimir Burgess talks about his short film Lone Rider that screens in Melbourne on 27 March as part of Flickerfest program.

March 13 - The Melbourne Comedy Film Festival is profiled with one of the producers. 

March 6 - Cerise Howard talks about Melbourne's Senses of Cinema website.

February 28 - Melbourne Queer Film Festival director, Lisa Daniel, and local filmmaker Elka Kerkhofs are interviewed.

February 21 - Sharon Hurst, reviewer for Cinephilia website, reviews films

February 14 - All about Plug In TV and RMIT's STREAM Collective

February 7 - Lawrence Johnstone talks about his latest documentary Night.