In this week's episode we speak to Melbourne-based writer and director Greta Nash about why they make shorts and their pathway into the industry.

In 2023, Greta completed their latest short film Heart Throb. In 2022 Greta underwent a Director's Attachment on Run Rabbit Run, funded by Screen Australia. In 2021 Greta wrote a polished draft of their first feature, School Camp, funded by Screen Tasmania. In 2020 Greta received a City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grant to commence work on the first draft.

Greta completed a Director’s attachment on Preacher, funded by Vicscreen in 2019, and wrote and directed Removals, a short film funded by the City of Greater Dandenong to raise awareness of family violence.

Greta wrote and directed the winning Tropfest film Two Piece in 2018. Their previous short film Locker Room premiered at the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival and has since received over 9 million views online.

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We spoke to the artist and solo game developer from Onepixel.dog about his highly anticipated adventure game, Way To The Woods.

Since 2016, artist Anthony Tan has been working on Way To The Woods, a third person adventure game where a deer and a fawn must embark on a journey through an abandoned world to get home. Anthony joined ACMI X as resident in 2022 to put the finishing touches on his highly anticipated game, which has received global attention for its gorgeous art style, mechanics and soundtrack.In this episode of Inside ACMI X, Anthony spoke to us about the highs and lows he experienced making Way To The Woods and navigating the expectations of the game’s fanbase through to its completion.Throughout this episode you will hear snippets of music from the game composed by Aivi & Surasshu, the electronic music duo behind the soundtrack to the animated show Steven Universe.

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Have you considered telling your story through a game or interactive experience, instead of a film?

In this episode, we discuss Jason's path into the industry and his strategy for storytelling; finding a personal connection and considering the perfect form.

Jason Christou is a creator/writer/director who tells stories infused by his Greek-Cypriot and Austrian/Slovenian descent across film, TV, documentary, interactive and games. His feature projects have been a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest, and selected to Warner Bros & The Blacklist’s “Aussie List”. He was a writer on ABC/Matchbox Pictures’ tv series NOWHERE BOYS, and a director’s apprentice on Sony/AMC’s PREACHER, and is a current Creative Victoria Creators Fund recipient for his interactive series/game WE THE JURY and a 2022 alumni and production funding recpient of the AFTRS National Documentary Talent Camp for SKINNY.
This episode features audio clips from Jason's short film, Human Resources, created by composer and sound designer Julian Langdon.

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We explore how music inspires the filmmaking process.

This episode's guest is Eva Otsing, an Estonian born and raised visual artist and filmmaker. Eva spoke to us about her path into filmmaking and how music greatly inspires her work. We chat about her recent documentary CONFLUENCE which she directed, shot and edited, which takes an intimate look into the world of the Kiwi artist Charlotte Watson. We also discussed her new art documentary in development.

This episode features music from Eva's documentary CONFLUENCE, composed by Ji Yoon Lee, and 'City Lament' composed by YL Hooi.

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This episode is for those interested in creating visual art for games.

Our next guest on Inside ACMI X is concept Artist Zahraa Al Zubaydi who is currently working on Pixellated The Game, about a cyborg child who finds a way to connect to two opposing worlds she belongs with, in a universe of different dimensions drawn in different styles. We spoke to Zahraa about her pathway into videogames, and the development of and inspirations behind Pixellated The Game.

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This episode is for anyone fascinated by celebrity culture.

Sarah Scales is a PhD Candidate at Swinburne University researching the theory of parasocial relationships, breakups and the negotiation process fans experience following a celebrity scandal.The cinema is her greatest passion in life, and she is fascinated by why and how audiences engage with the content they do, and the effects media can have on people. An ACMI X resident, she is currently working with company Media Mentors. You can find Sarah on Twitter.

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This episode is for deep thinking comedy lovers.

Our guest is Emile Zile, an artist, filmmaker and performer who talks to us about his darkly comic practice – the critical re-use and re-encoding of media broadcasts, communication protocols and online platforms. His work reflects a distributed humanity, a yearning for transcendence and the limits of language.Building on a background of live and single-channel video, his work uses site-specific performance, portraiture and filmmaking to capture the traces of humanity within an accelerating digital culture.

Emile's influences mentioned in this episode are below:

Andy Kaufman’s tempo – Andy Kaufman on Letterman (October 15th 1980)

Alan Tutorial's voice – My own hand tutorial

Hennessy Youngman's swagger – ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art

Jello Biafra’s gesture – Dead Kennedys - Live in San Francisco, 16-06-1984

Kraftwerk's anti-gesture – Kraftwerk - The Robots (Live, Club Lido, Venice October 1978)

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This episode is for fans of non-fiction.

Our guest, Natasha Gadd, is a writer/director and the Creative Director and CEO for the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC). In this episode, Natasha describes her creative process, industry trends and a documentary she recently enjoyed watching.In 2005, Natasha co-founded Daybreak Films, a Melbourne based production company. She wrote and directed her debut feature documentary, Words From the City , nominated for five AFI Awards. Her follow up feature, Murundak: Songs of Freedom received the Grand Prix – FIFO, Best Documentary – Valladolid International Film Festival and the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award. Natasha has made a series of half hour arts documentaries including Weather and Muscle for which she received an Australian Directors Guild Best Director award.

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