It’s always interesting to hear what goes on behind the scenes of seemingly effortless acting performances. NIDA...
Filming in India: Save Your Legs Part 2 (Behind the Scenes Q&A with Damon Gameau)
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Ever dreamt of playing for your country (Save Your Legs: Part 1)
Take a true Australian story, add a touch of The Hangover, a smidge of Eat, Prey, Love, two drops of Bollywood and a...
Wisdom comes with age … maybe (I am Eleven by Geneviene Bailey)
Wisdom comes with age or so they say, but as I left the movie, I am Eleven, I pondered whether this...
The King Is Dead Q&A with Rolf de Heer
Before showing The King is Dead at Cinema Paradiso, director Rolf de Heer (Ten Canoes, The Tracker) was asked to...
Lightbulb moments at 2012 Tropfest smorgasbord
There’s something magical about sitting outside watching movies under the summer sky, it’s guaranteed to make my heart...
More 4 Me and The Hunter both get an airing at BOFA Tasmanian Festival 2011
Two films recently featured on The Ponder Room will both be shown at the MyState Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film...
How does a first time film director lure a Hollywood heavyweight into his movie? (Willem Defoe in The Hunter)
While Academy Award nominee Willem Defoe, knew where Tasmania was, he’d never heard of the Tasmanian tiger, so how...
The World Moves In Mysterious Ways (Red Dog Movie Part 2)
By now you’ll know Red Dog is a story about a charismatic kelpie that charmed the north west of Western Australia,...
How to ensure celebrities perform (Louis de Bernieres at Byron Bay Writers Festival)
While Louis de Bernieres, writer of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Birds Without Wings, and most recently Red Dog,...
WA film More 4 Me lights up New York International Film Festival
“What’s the one thing you can’t live without?”We’ve all seen the footage of Cambodian children grasping tiny cups...