Sound Perspective

The Big Dog is playing at a cinema near you! Tickets available here https://www.2cpictures.com/films/thebigdog Dane McCusker is a director in Sydney, whose debut feature The Big Dog is about to start its theatrical release after sold-out sessions at Sydney Film Festival. The Big Dog is a dramedy about a married stockbroker with a penchant for the esoteric fetish "findom" - financial domination. When his secret dominatrix cleans out all of his bank accounts, he has one day to save his life from ruin. It's a hilarious, heart-wrenching and nuanced interrogation of class, gender and toxic masculinity. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. Check out Dane's other shorts here Follow me on Insta and Letterboxd @alfiefaber Follow Dane's production company 2c Pictures here

Thomas M. Wright is an Australian director in Melbourne. He started as an actor and has since directed 2 features, the most recent being The Stranger, a Netflix original crime thriller starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris which premiered at Cannes 2022. He's incredibly intelligent and articulate. In this interview we chatted about everything from dreams, to his bizarre writing style, and how he likes to develop the tone of his films. Follow me on Instagram and Letterboxd @alfiefaber Follow the Sound Perspective Podcast on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/soundperspectivepodcast

WARNING: In this episode, I repeatedly mispronounce Leo Grande. Sophie was really nice so she never corrected me and I didn’t realise till I uploaded. It’s not easy being this dumb but somehow I stumble through life. Sophie Hyde is a super talented Australian director from Adelaide whose first fiction feature, 52 Tuesdays, won directing awards at both Berlin and Sundance. Since then she’s been making a bunch of phenomenal work in features, doco and TV, most recently the film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, starring Emma Thompson. We chatted about everything from her background in documentary, shooting 52 Tuesdays over 52 weeks, her collaboration with Irish sound editor Steve Fanagan, rehearsing over Zoom and the challenges of shooting a film in one location. Good Luck To You is currently screening in theatres across Australia (maybe still in the US and UK?) Either way watch it it’s so good! Follow me on Letterboxed @alfiefaber Instagram @alfiefaber Contact me on contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

Lauren Hadaway is a director based in Los Angeles and Paris whose debut feature, The Novice, premiered this year at Tribecca to great reviews and several awards; it's since been released theatrically and has been nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards. However even before this phenomenal film, she was achieving remarkable success in post-production sound, having worked in ADR and sound editing for directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Zach Snyder and Damien Chazelle. In this interview we chatted about how she wrote this feature whilst recording ADR on Zach Snyder's Justice League, what she learned from other directors through working in sound, the challenges of indie filmmaking and the appeal in a niche story such as The Novice. Read more about The Novice here - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11131464/ Follow me on Instagram at @alfiefaber Or follow the podcast on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/soundperspectivepodcast

Ben Lawrence is an Australian director whose credits include Hearts and Bones, Ghosthunter, and most recently Ithaka, a feature documentary following John Shipton, Jullian Assanges father, in his fight for Julian’s freedom. It’s premiering at Sydney Film Festival this Sunday 7th November, with music by Brian Eno. In my first face-to-face podcast interview in over 18 months, me and Ben chatted about how he pitted Hugo Weaving against first-time actors in Hearts and Bones, how he unwillingly became a character in his documentary Ghosthunter and how he collaborated with Brian Eno to find the right music for Ithaka. Get tickets for Ithaka at Sydney Film Festival here: https://www.sff.org.au/program/browse/ithaka Follow me on Letterboxd: Alfie Faber And Instagram at @alfiefaber Got any feedback or questions? Contact me at contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

David France is a documentary filmmaker, writer and journalist in New York, whose directing credits include Oscar-Nominated How To Survive a Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, and last year's Welcome to Chechnya, the horrific story of the genocide of queer people in the Russian state of Chechnya. In this Skype interview we discussed his transition from journalism to film, how he ensured the anonymity of his subjects through ground-breaking VFX and ADR, and his working relationship with legendary mixer Lora Hirschberg, who has also worked on films such as The Dark Knight and Inception. Find out where you can watch Welcome To Chechnya here https://www.welcometochechnya.com/seefilm Follow the podcast socials on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/soundperspectivepodcast Instagram - @alfiefaber Email at contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

Aunty Donna are a 6-piece comedy group from Melbourne, Australia, who have worked across video, stage performance, and music. They are very, very, very funny people. In this episode I chatted to two of the members; filmmaker Max Miller and composer/sound designer Tom Armstrong, about their new Netflix original series, Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun. We talked about how Tom likes to get involved from the sketch writing phase, how Max converts live sketches to something cinematic, their work outside of Aunty Donna, and the alternate universe in which they might have made a Quibi series. Watch Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun now on Netflix, or follow their socials: Instagram: @theauntydonnagallery Twitter: @auntydonnaboys Facebook and Youtube: Aunty Donna Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefaber Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

In this episode I chat with Natalie Erika James and Robert Mackenzie, the director and sound designer of the hit Australian horror film Relic. In this Skype interview, we talked about the collaborative process of having a sound team working in 3 different cities, creating an extensive sample library before the edit, and how they created a sense of organic decay through the soundtrack. Relic is currently available in Australia on Stan and overseas on rental platforms. Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefabersound Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

Jed Kurzel is an Australian composer living in England. He is the brother of Australian director Justin Kurzel, and in addition to having scored all of his films (Snowtown, Assassins Creed and The True History of the Kelly Gang) he's composed for films such as Alien: Covenant, The Babadook and The Nightingale. In this Skype interview me and Jed talked about his upbringing with Justin, the difference between film composition and song-writing and what composers can do to add to a film. Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefabersound Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

Justin Kurzel is an Australian director working in London; his films include Snowtown, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Macbeth and Assassins Creed. In this Skype interview we talked about his origins in theatre design, his collaboration with his brother and regular composer Jed Kurzel, creating a social-realistic sound in Snowtown and the influence of his favourite book. Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefabersound Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

For this episode I did a cheeky little pod swap with the amazing sound design podcast Tonebenders. The Tonebenders hosts are incredibly talented with heaps of industry experience and they've been making awesome content for years so it was an absolute pleasure to hear from them and collaborate on this. In this ep you'll hear their interview with Brad Engleking, the sound designer of Terence Mallicks' most recent film A Hidden Life. As the only sound designer on a 3 hour film Brad really had his work cut out for him but he did a phenomenal job and this interview is a really interesting insight into his process by some people a lot more talented and experienced than me! Tonebenders will be releasing my Peter Weir interview in the next few weeks but please go check out their podcast, it's available on iTunes, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts. Website https://tonebenderspodcast.com/ Find them on Twitter @thetonebenders or Facebook @Tonebenders

Listen to the entire interview with Wayne Pashley, Derryn Pasquill and Andrew Miller from Big Bang Sound Design from episode 1 talk about their work on Mad Max, working with George Miller, their time on the Great Gatsby as well as a deep dive by Andrew Miller into sound effects editing for gunshots and action sequences.

I went down to Big Bang Studios in Rosebery to chat with director Mike Green, sound designer Peter Climpson and mixer Wayne Pashley, who I'd previously talked to in my episode about Mad Max. We chatted about Mike's debut feature, Outback, a psychological thriller set in the Australian desert, how Mike and Peter developed a style in the films soundtrack, and what Wayne was able to bring as a seasoned sound mixer. Outback premieres at Monsterfest in Melbourne on Saturday 12th October. Tickets at http://www.monsterfest.com.au/australia/program/?layout=grid Follow the film at https://www.facebook.com/Outbackthemovie/ Got any feedback? Email me at contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com Or follow the instagram at https://www.instagram.com/soundperspectivepodcast/