A panel of pop culture experts join forces for an always-timely conversation about how and what we’re consuming, and why.
From a movie about a donkey to Paul Mescal’s Oscar-nominated turn in Aftersun and the onset of peak Barbie marketing campaign, the last 12 months have ushered in many an iconic pop culture moment.
Join cultural critic Michael Sun, film critic and programmer Kelli Weston, cook and author Julia Busuttil Nishimura, and moderator Brodie Lancaster as they analyse what they’ve been watching, reading, and otherwise consuming in film and media since last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.
Presented in partnership with Melbourne International Film Festival as part of MIFF Talks, a program presented by the University of Melbourne.
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Featuring
Julia Busuttil Nishimura is a Melbourne based cook and author. She is the author of three best-selling cookbooks: Around the Table, A Year of Simple Family Food and Ostro; and a columnist for Good Weekend Magazine, ABC Everyday and The Design Files. Julia’s cooking is influenced by her Maltes... Read more
Brodie Lancaster is an author and essayist from Melbourne. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Vogue Australia, the Guardian and New York magazine. Her first book, the pop culture memoir No Way! Okay, Fine, was published by Hachette in 2017, and she co-hosts th... Read more
Michael Sun is a critic, essayist, and editor from China and Australia. His writing on film, music, and literature is regularly published in The Guardian, Esquire, ABC Arts, Sydney Review of Books, and Liminal Magazine, among many others. Recently, he hosted the Guardian’s online culture podcast S... Read more
Dr. Kelli Weston is a film critic and programmer based in Brooklyn. She earned her doctorate at Birkbeck College, University of London, and specializes in nonfiction and horror cinema, with a particular emphasis on the visual narratives of Black women filmmakers. Her writing has been published in Si... Read more
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