Interviews

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Screenwriter Anthony O’Connor (21 December 1976-) has been writing forever. He wrote his first screenplays while still a young teenager. He had his first screenplay Angst (2000) produced while still in his early 20s. He would also polish dialogue on the Kylie Minogue movie Sample People (2000). In fact he would earn a living as…

Read more Screenwriter Anthony O’Connor on Angst, Inhuman Resources and the Art of Creation…

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Justin Bozung (1977-) is a biographer and author who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. A writer for many magazine publications over the years, he sits on the board of the Norman Mailer Society. An archivist of Mailer’s work, he is the host of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast. In fact, there is a ten-part podcast…

Read more Author and Biographer Justin Bozung on Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance

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*contains spoilers Phil Brock (15 August 1950-) was one of four brothers brought up in semi-rural Victoria – Hurstbridge outer Melbourne. His father was a bush mechanic and “a good one”. He didn’t have enough money to race as it was in the days before sponsorship… “Dad took us to various motor sports events reasonably…

Read more Stunt Driver Phil Brock on Mad Max, Frenchman’s Farm and brother Peter…

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Josephine (previously John) Emery (19 February 1947-)  is one of a group of filmmakers who was at the heart of the film industry in South Australia when it began to thrive in the late 70s and into the 1980s. She wrote a script for what would become Phil Noyce’s first feature Backroads (1977). She followed…

Read more Screenwriter Josephine Emery on Strangers, Craig Lahiff, Scott Hicks and more

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As a companion piece to the article Frank Howson and the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, we have this interview with the Producer/Writer/Director himself. Melbourne’s Frank Howson (1952-) started in show business on the stage at the age of seven. A prodigious and prolific writer of music, film and the stage as well as other media,…

Read more Producer and Writer Frank Howson on Laura Branigan, the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the Art of Creation and more…

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And a word or two on Maslin Beach (1997), set on the eponymous nude beach in Adelaide. It’s your masterpiece in terms of script and direction. The nudity is not coy. Did you originally set out to make what is essentially a “European” movie? Maslin Beach was my ‘coming of age’, and the transition from…

Read more Wayne Groom on Maslin Beach

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You co-produced The Dreaming (1988) with Craig Lahiff and with Anthony I. Ginnane as executive producer. It stars Penny Cook who passed away recently. She worked with Lahiff, who is also gone, on the very good Hitchcockian slasher/horror Coda (1987). How would you sum them up? You must have known Lahiff well. The period 1984…

Read more Wayne Groom on The Dreaming

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As the producer, what was the inspiration for Centrespread (1981)? How did it begin? In 1978, I began working with Newfilms in Adelaide, which was a production company owned by Justin Milne and Geoffrey Simpson. I learned my trade production managing documentaries, corporate films and commercials. Geoffrey and I constantly talked about making a feature…

Read more Wayne Groom on Centrespread