James Branson is a Sydney-based filmmaker and the writer, director, executive producer, co-editor, and co-writer of the original score to feature film Bunny - a post-apocalyptic quasi horror about a young woman roaming climate-ravaged Australia in search of sustenance.

In this conversation we delve into:

• James background as a musician, marketer and editor of grungy zine and YouTube channel.
• Making a documentary series about a BDSM sex cult in Armidale.
• How a forced redundancy at work led to James self-financing his debut feature Bunny.
• How he made the film completely independently with the help of producer Taylor Thompson.
• Using his marketing skills to take the film out via self distribution.

Enjoy this great nuts and bolts chat about how it is still possible to make a strong film completely independently.

The film will be touring Australia in early 2026. More details on their website: https://afilmcalledbunny.com/

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James Hunter is an award-winning Melbourne-based filmmaker, originally from Canberra, who just completed his debut feature film The Latcher - a psychological horror starring Lucy Lovegrove under his production company Full Cycle Films.

In this conversation, we delve into:

• James' life as a filmmaker
• Making shorts as a child and having one play at a film festival when he was 12
• Dropping out of school at 16 to move to Sydney to study film
• Returning to Canberra and winning Best Film and Best Director at Lights Canberra Action 2016 while developing feature film scripts
• Moving to Melbourne and shooting his short Nest on film to film festival success, where it premiere at the 69th Melbourne International Film Festival, in the Accelerator Shorts program, an annual MIFF initiative designed to fast-track the feature film careers of outstanding emerging filmmakers. Alumni of MIFF Accelerator include Taika Waititi (Thor Ragnarok), David Michod (Animal Kingdom), Justin Kurzel (True History of the Kelly Gang) and Natalie Erika James (Relic).
• How he pulled off production on his debut feature film The Latcher.

You can find James on ⁠Instagram or his website: https://www.jameshunterfilm.com/

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Ché Baker is a Canberra-based filmmaker who writes, produces, directs, edits, acts, does visual effects, martial arts, and authored the novel Rule of Knowledge under his penname Scott Baker.

Under his production company Full Point Films he has directed two feature films: Blue World Order (co-directed with Dallas Bland, starring Billy Zane) and the recently completed States of Mind, set for release in 2026.

In this sprawling conversation, we talk through:

• How Ché's ambition created himself the opportunity to attend university in North Carolina where he got a production assistant role on Dawson's Creek,
• His year in Wellington on The Hobbit trilogy and getting to do motion capture performance for Spielberg in Tintin,
• How his 2012 Lights Canberra Action short Blue World Order won him Best Performance and Best VFX and then developed into a feature length film,
• The dark side of distribution, and;
• Everything about his upcoming film States of Mind.

You can find Che on facebook and instagram.

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