Join Richard Lawton of the Australia Independent Film Festival as he talks with Daniella Ortega. Daniella has forged her path in writing, directing and producing documentary content, with her latest film, ‘Carbon: An Unauthorized Biography’ featuring some great scientific minds including the likes of Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Daniella has also recently joined Screen Australia as a development and investment manager - so Richard jumped at the opportunity to talk to her about her career and how to go about connecting with our national film funding body. She also discusses Fresh Cuts documentary pitch initiative, a fantastic new Screen Australia initiative for early career screen practitioners. Further information on the initiative can be found @

https://www.aidc.com.au/pitches-marketplace/fresh-cuts-documentary-pitch/

https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-support/documentary/development/special-initiatives/screen-australia-aidc-fresh-cuts-documentary-pitch

We hope you enjoy.

Join Richard Lawton of the Australia Independent Film Festival as he talks everything film with two of Brisbane’s most recognized independent filmmakers Amanda Kaye and Tristan Barr of Continuance Pictures.

We first met these two filmmakers at 2019 edition of AIFF - where they hadn’t yet met. At AIFF19, Amanda’s directorial debut “Norm” very deservedly won the people’s choice award. Richard was able to introduce the two of them after the festival, and at AIFF22 they returned with a collaboration in the form of “Good Times and That’s OK”

This episode was taped before the festival - but their film went on to win Best Qld short film, and Amanda again took out the people’s choice award.

In this conversation, Amanda, Tristan and Richard talk about the creative process, juggling between roles on set, attracting crew to low budget productions and putting your best foot forward when it comes to forging a career as a creative in film making.

We hope you enjoy.

Join Richard Lawton of the Australia Independent Film Festival as he talks everything television with Drew Jarvis one of Australia's most recognized executive producers on television, Drew Jarvis – July 2022.

Drew is currently the executive producer of children’s content for Network 10, and has had a long career writing, developing and producing content for young audiences in Australia. As a sound mixer, Richard has worked with Drew on a number of projects, and was keen to talk with him more to gain some insight into his producing techniques, and find out what brought him to this position in the industry.

We’ll talk about the similarities between kids’ content and indie filmmaking, some tips on fostering a great atmosphere on set, what Drew would do as a new creative in the current media landscape in Australia, and some advice on how to go about pitching your projects for funding and acquisition.

Please enjoy Richard's chat with Drew Jarvis.

https://www.ausindefest.com