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Special – Eva Orner

Popcorn Podcast has the absolute honour of chatting to Oscar-winner Eva Orner about her powerful new documentary Burning to get firsthand insights on why the filmmaker felt compelled to make this movie, how she brought footage and interviews together in a way that balances both the political and emotional, and how she hopes people will respond to watching the confronting but important film. We hope you enjoy this special episode.

Bonus – Burning

Popcorn Podcast chats to Oscar-winning director Eva Orner about her powerful new documentary Burning, which takes an unflinching look at the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires while shining a light on the urgency of climate action. As well as Leigh and Tim's discussion of the doco, Orner shares her passion for the project and the challenges of bringing Burning to fruition, why she was compelled to make the film and what must happen to help prevent another tragedy like this. Burning is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video with a subscription to the service.

Under The Volcano + The Ice Road

Gracie Otto's musical documentary Under The Volcano and Liam Neeson's The Ice Road are on this week's itinerary, as Popcorn Podcast travels to Caribbean gem Montserrat and the frozen tundra of Canada's ice roads respectively. But which has us wishing we'd turned around? Plus, we reveal the special guests joining us on the podcast soon, Bohemian Rhapsody eyes a sequel, Margot Robbie and Idris Elba make casting noise and there's a Nicolas Cage Bonanza in full swing!

Special – Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin

Popcorn Podcast goes undercover in a special episode with the writers/directors of documentary Castro's Spies. Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin discuss how important it was to establish an emotional connection between the audience and the group known as the Cuban Five, the challenges of selecting from such rich archival footage, what justice means to the Cuban people, and how they came to use clips from Cuban TV show In Silence It Had To Be Done to help tell the story