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Sydney Film Festival 2024

Interviewing Ray Yeung

Anu talks to the director of 'All Shall Be Well', Ray Yeung, about his experiences making films for the queer community in Hong Kong.

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Interviewing Michael Jonathan

Ahead of the release of his debut feature film 'Ka Whawhai Tonu', Rahemma speaks with director Michael Jonathan about bringing Maori history to the big screen and his journey from documentaries to feature filmmaking.

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Sydney Writers' Festival | 2023

Shirley Le- Funny Ethnics

Lychee chats with Shirley Le about her debut novel Funny Ethnics, marginalization of Asians in Australian pop culture and art criticism ahead of the festival.

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Madison Godfrey- Dress Rehearsals

Natalie sat down with Madison Godfrey and discussed their novel, Dress Rehearsals and how it relates to their experience of finding joy, learning, unlearning, and re-learning femininity on their own terms.

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Sally Colin-James- One Illumined Thread

Connor speaks to Sally Colin-James about her debut novel, One Illumined Thread, which explores the complexities between mother and child and women’s eternal fight to overcome oppression.

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Mawunyo Gbogbo- Hip Hop and Hymns

Josefine and Thierry had the pleasure of sitting with ABC pop culture reporter and author of her new memoir, Hip Hop and Hymns, Mawunyo Gbogbo.

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Benjamin Stevenson- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Ahead of the festival, Anandi chatted with Benjamin Stevenson about his inspiration behind the book, life as a Comedian vs author, the process of creating this book, a surprise cameo from his twin brother James and much more.

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Michael Kirby- A Private Life

Ahead of former High Court Justice Michael Kirby's talk with two-time world champion debater and writer Bo Seo at the 2023 Sydney Writers’ Festival, Jade spoke to Kirby about his 2011 story A Private Life.

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LATEST

Telenova

Danielle interviews Aussie alt-indie sensation Telenova, ahead of the release of their debut album.

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Anjum Hasan

Anandi interviews author Anjum Hasan on her latest, "History's Angel" and how it sheds light on the complexities of life, love, writing history, and how national and patriotic myths can be maliciously subverted.

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Angela Griffin

Akane interviewed UNSW student activist and gendered violence researcher Angela Griffin regarding her research and discussed whether the university is doing enough to ensure the safety of women within university spaces and beyond.

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The 2023 Student Coordinators!

A look at some of the remarkable individuals working behind the scenes, who made your 2023 a brighter and more memorable year!

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Addict (Vertex), IEM Sydney 2023

Patrick chats with Addict, a player from one of Australia's top Counter-Strike 2 Teams, Vertex during IEM Sydney.

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Free Nationals (José Rios)

With their debut album dropping December 13th​, Kevin Wang got a chance to talk to with Funk-R&B supergroup Free Nationals' very own José Rios.​​

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Kane Senes

Following the release of his new movie For Now, we had a chance to chat with UNSW alumni and Australian filmmaker Kane Senes.

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Charly Bliss

Georgia spoke to the New York band about touring Australia, the rise of pop music and their favourite child stars.

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Hein Cooper

Globetrotting singer-songwriter Hein Cooper spoke to Georgia about his sophomore album, 'Underneath It All'.

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John Edward

Jeeves talks to psychic medium John Edward about sceptics and his work as an educator. Content warning: this interview discusses suicide.

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Marina Benjamin | Sydney Writers' Festival

We talked to Marina about using confession as a trigger for reflection, and looking into herself to deconstruct the everyday experience of being female.

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Oh Boy

Sydney artist Oh Boy is no stranger to collaborations.

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Broods

2019 has already been a stellar year for New Zealand duo BROODS.

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Sofi Tukker

New York-based duo Sofi Tukker burst onto the scene in 2016 with their Portuguese-fused track 'Drinkee'.

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Sam Cooney | Sydney Writers' Festival

We chatted to Sam Cooney, the publisher behind the independent Australian book press Brow Books and quarterly non-profit literary magazine The Lifted Brow.

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Bri Lee | Sydney Writers' Festival

We sat down with Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull.

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Louise Chen

Share with Oscar’s co-founder Louise talks about her experiences starting a company, and what the company's goals are for the future.

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Generation Women

Brooke Farmer is the producer of Generation Women, a monthly storytelling night held at Giant Dwarf in Redfern. Georgia spoke with her about what the show entails, how she got involved and why these kinds of events are so important.

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Katia S

The conservative black turtle neck Miss Katia S. was wearing did little to overcast the vintage glamour of the burlesque beauty.

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Des Bishop

Jeeves Verma catches up with Irish-American comedian Des Bishop about death, comedy and how he learnt Mandarin in a year living in China!

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Ben & Jerry's On Climate Change

Georgia spoke to Kent from Ben & Jerry's about how young people can have their say on climate change policy.

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Stella Donnelly

This Perth native isn't afraid to advocate for what she believes in. She spoke with Georgia about her new album, her Welsh heritage, and the music industry’s gender issues.

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Hugh Cornwell

Jeeves Verma talks Hugh Cornwell, front man of The Stranglers, about his Monster Australian Tour and asks him what the song Golden Brown was about.

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Phill Jupitus

Jeeves Verma caught up with Comedian Phill Jupitus (QI, Never Mind the Buzzcocks) ahead of his Australia Tour. They talk about poetry, politics in the 80s and what to look forward to in his new show Sassy Knacks!

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Danny Bhoy

Jeeves Verma sat down with Danny Bhoy ahead of his Age of Fools Tour.

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Urzila Carlson

Urzila Carlson is far from losing, show why call her new show Loser?

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Greta Stanley

Greta Stanley's sound is a melancholic blend of indie beach charm and electronic light.

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Effie

She is brazen, brash and unapologetically herself. Now, Effie is exploring the world of online dating.

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Shari Sebbens

Shari Sebbens is one of Australia's finest actresses and Indigenous advocates. She is now starring the ABC's landmark series, The Heights.

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Wolves

The Belvoir is back with another season of ‘Wolves’ which sold out in 2018 at the Old Fitz and Jessica Arthur shares her insights on what it’s like to tell a female-centric story with am all female cast and crew.

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G Flip

Melbourne's multi-instrumentalist talks infectious stage presence, writing breakup songs & an exciting new year.

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Mosquito Coast

The Perth duo are riding the summer waves of success with strumming guitars.

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Foxing

​American indie-rock band Foxing have never been easy to box into a stereotype.

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Cub Sport

Fast-becoming queer icons, Brisbane band Cub Sport are embracing Pop music & their sexuality.

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Kirsten Siddle | A Midnight Visit

A nightmarish descent into the strange, mesmerising and unexpected ‘Netherworld’ – underpins Australia’s first large-scale immersive theatre experience, A Midnight Visit.

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Kitty Flannagan

Don’t waste your time doing comedy courses, no one can teach you comedy, you just have to get up on stage and work it out for yourself.

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Hi Life

Micol chats to upcoming band and Sydneysiders Hi Life as their latest Slide hits the charts.

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Carlo Ritchie - The Bear Pack

Comedian Jeeves Verma chats to Carlo Ritchie ahead of The Bear Pack's upcoming show at The Enmore Theatre

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Thundamentals

​Will got a chance to talk to Jeswon of Aussie Hip Hop group Thundamentals in light of their upcoming “I Love Songs”album tour show at the Enmore

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The Kransky Sisters

Jeeves chats to The Kransky Sisters ahead of their Christmas tour.

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Hannah Hart

Hannah Hart at #VidConAU

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Hank Green

Hank Green at #VidConAU

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Lex Deluxe

2018 has already been a huge year for 21-year-old DJ Lex Deluxe, but she’s not done yet.

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Sexpo Director Bentleigh Gibson

A.I. Companion Dolls, Sexual Education, Kink and a hell of a show.

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Alice Tovey

Alice Tovey dishes on growing up listening to Meatloaf, giving voice to minorities and what feminism really means.

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Daniel Sloss

We chatted to Scottish comedian, dreamboat and potential sociopath Daniel Sloss ahead of his Sydney Comedy Festival Show.

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The Bear Pack

Award-winning Sydney improv duo The Bear Pack (Barry Award-nominated Steen Raskopoulos & Carlo Ritchie) performed an exclusive one-night only show at the Enmore Theatre, fresh from a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe season.

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Ronny Chieng

​Albert Lin recently sat down with international comedian, Ronny Chieng to talk politics, racism, and comedy. Fun.

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Paces

​Gold Coast producer Paces (aka Mikey Perry) has had a massive 2017 so far. His single ‘Savage’ cracked seven million Spotify streams in just nine months and he’s about to embark on a huge Australian tour

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Bilal Hafda

​Blitz recently caught up with slam poet, teacher, and domestic violence advocate, Bilal Hafda, after his spoken word poetry performance at TEDxYouth@Sydney.

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Allday

We sat down with Allday, aka Tom Gaynor, before his Sydney listening party, to talk favourite memes, moving to LA, and his new album, Speeding.

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Neckdeep

I recently had a chat with Ben Barlow of Neck Deep, to chat about their third album, The Peace and The Panic, musical inspirations, touring and more.

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Mallrat

Grace Shaw, better known as Mallrat, is an up-and-coming Brisbane rapper who calls herself the ‘Hannah Montana of the rap game’.

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Real Estate

Blitz Radio host, Will Clifton, recently had the opportunity to talk with Alex Bleeker, the bassist for Real Estate.

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Flo The Kid

Glad Rap with Campbell and Declan sat down and had a chat with Flo The Kid about Life, music and his very first mixtape!

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