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00:00:10And welcome to Race Around the World.
00:00:15A show that uses digital cameras like these to reach the spots that other shows can't reach.
00:00:23In 1997,
00:00:25Oh my God, I can't believe I'm doing this.
00:00:27Eight unknown filmmakers
00:00:29John Safran, Livia Roussain
00:00:31took part in an unprecedented television experiment.
00:00:36See you, suckers.
00:00:40Travelling the world.
00:00:41I'm in the extreme north of Pakistan.
00:00:43I'm in Osaka.
00:00:44Nepal.
00:00:45San Jose.
00:00:46Shooting films on the fly.
00:00:48I'm in Yemen.
00:00:49Because I'm a woman, I can't show you my face.
00:00:52And making their mark on Australian TV.
00:00:55The winner of the popular vote is John Safran.
00:00:59Forever.
00:01:03Now, more than 25 years later.
00:01:10The adventure starts all over again.
00:01:16Six bold new filmmakers
00:01:17will crash land in a new country every ten days.
00:01:22I can't conceptualise how big this situation really is.
00:01:27They'll produce, shoot and edit a short film at every stop.
00:01:31Country after country, story after story.
00:01:33By the end of it, I'll have ten films.
00:01:35And if that wasn't challenging enough,
00:01:37they have no idea where they're headed next
00:01:40until the day before they leave.
00:01:43Wait, what?
00:01:44I don't like surprises.
00:01:46I don't like planes.
00:01:48Not knowing where I'm going makes me nervous,
00:01:50but it's the kind of thing where
00:01:52if it doesn't make you anxious,
00:01:54it's sort of not worth doing.
00:01:55So, let's meet a brand-new generation of racists.
00:02:01I'm 23.
00:02:02It's my first year out of uni.
00:02:04Pretty much anyone who's Gen Z
00:02:06grew up with filmmaking equipment on our phones.
00:02:09There's definitely a new age of voice
00:02:11that's coming out in media and journalism.
00:02:15The types of films I want to make
00:02:17are always feminist-driven,
00:02:20telling stories of women's shared experiences
00:02:22and girlhood across the world.
00:02:26To win this would just be totally life-changing.
00:02:30Everything wrong.
00:02:31Okay.
00:02:32My name's Will.
00:02:33I am 29,
00:02:34and I am a machine learning engineer.
00:02:37I work in AI.
00:02:39Would you describe yourself any other way,
00:02:41or is that bang on?
00:02:42Probably describe myself as Chinese as well.
00:02:47Done.
00:02:48Because I went to a pretentious film school,
00:02:51I think I would describe my style as Vada-esque.
00:02:55You know, just like a cheeky little French lady
00:02:58running around doing whatever she likes.
00:03:00Oh, shit!
00:03:01She's just kind of cute on camera,
00:03:03and I hope that I have the same energy as that.
00:03:05My filmmaking comes from
00:03:08just hanging out with people on the fringe
00:03:09and I guess trying to make sense of them,
00:03:13from thousands of applicants,
00:03:15we've chosen the most unique voices.
00:03:19I don't identify as a lollipop lady
00:03:21because I don't have a side.
00:03:23I just have a whistle.
00:03:25I'm a poser in that video.
00:03:29I think I would describe myself
00:03:32as, like, a combination of David Lynch and Woody Allen.
00:03:37Dreamy, ironic,
00:03:40colourful, gritty, tacky, off.
00:03:46Now I'm just really rambling.
00:03:47Maybe I should stop.
00:03:48With a backpack full of film kit,
00:03:52they're hitting the road for 100 days.
00:03:56I come from, like, a news and documentary background.
00:03:59To describe my filmmaking,
00:04:01it would be gritty, a little bit dangerous.
00:04:07I've done stories in slums,
00:04:09favelas run by powerful gangs,
00:04:12maximum security prisons,
00:04:14psychiatric wards.
00:04:15I've been in some, like, pretty sketchy situations.
00:04:19But I, like, kind of thrive on that stuff.
00:04:22I love telling stories
00:04:24and I'm constantly, constantly trying to evolve
00:04:26and develop my filmmaking.
00:04:28For the winner, a life-changing prize.
00:04:33Their own project funded by the ABC.
00:04:37I used to work as a marine biologist,
00:04:40which had me sitting on the back of fishing trawlers
00:04:43all around Australia, Antarctic, all around Canada.
00:04:47That scientific background,
00:04:49it's the backbone of all the storytelling I do.
00:04:53I'm going to push the boundaries.
00:04:54I'm going to go further and deeper.
00:04:56I want to get cold, I want to get hot,
00:04:58I want to get underwater,
00:04:59I want to get on top of mountains,
00:05:01I want to hang off a cliff.
00:05:02The option's there.
00:05:03I'll be taking it.
00:05:05I don't do hostels, by the way.
00:05:10I am a 2D internet personality.
00:05:12I'm known online as Frooms.
00:05:14I'm trained as a journalist.
00:05:15I did one week of journalism at RMIT.
00:05:18I like to start by inserting myself in a story.
00:05:22How long can I stand in a change room
00:05:24before someone wonders if I'm dead?
00:05:26Which everyone knows that's journalism 101,
00:05:28but I come from online world
00:05:30where we're on a 30-second kind of budget,
00:05:32so 10 films in 10 different countries,
00:05:34it's like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron,
00:05:37name another male director,
00:05:39because that's the shoes that I'm stepping into for this show.
00:05:41But there can only be one winner.
00:05:44And I'm afraid that it's going to be me.
00:05:47Any further questions?
00:05:52So buckle your seatbelts,
00:05:55secure your tray tables in front of you,
00:05:58this filmmaking odyssey is cleared for takeoff.
00:06:04Ten films.
00:06:06Ten countries.
00:06:09This is Race Around the World.
00:06:22I'm Dan Rowe and this is Race Around the World.
00:06:26Yep, we are back.
00:06:28And it was only a 27-year break between seasons.
00:06:31Australia, for the next 10 weeks,
00:06:34you'll be travelling the globe without even leaving your couch.
00:06:37Six films every week,
00:06:39delivered to you by six young filmmakers
00:06:40with no agenda but curiosity
00:06:43and the drive to tell a damn good story.
00:06:46And the race has already begun.
00:06:49So, shall we take a look at where they landed 10 days ago?
00:06:58Wow.
00:07:00That is quite the spread of destinations.
00:07:04Alaska, Egypt, Nevada, India, the Philippines and Moldova.
00:07:11I'm going to be honest, I don't know a lot about Moldova,
00:07:14but it's fair to say no two films are going to be the same.
00:07:17And it won't just be you watching at home with strong opinions.
00:07:20We have judges for that.
00:07:21Joining us for every step of this journey,
00:07:23our series regular is a Race Around the World icon.
00:07:26He won the popular vote in the 1997 series.
00:07:30He was also disqualified.
00:07:32Please welcome John Safran.
00:07:39And our special guest this week.
00:07:41She's been on both sides of the camera
00:07:43as a performer and producer.
00:07:45The creative force behind classics like Secret Life of Us,
00:07:48Love My Way and Bump.
00:07:50She's spent decades defining Australian storytelling,
00:07:53so is the perfect person to judge what comes next.
00:07:57It's Claudia Carvin.
00:08:01And for 40 years,
00:08:03she's been synonymous with Australian cinema.
00:08:05She famously fought censorship
00:08:07and championed fresh voices.
00:08:09She's never once let a filmmaker off easy
00:08:11and she's hardly about to start now.
00:08:13It's Margaret Pomerantz.
00:08:17It's Margaret Pomerantz.
00:08:18Margaret, you're the matriarch of film critique.
00:08:21Well, I'm old enough to be.
00:08:22I say that with love.
00:08:25You've seen it all.
00:08:26How can these filmmakers impress you?
00:08:28By making decent films.
00:08:29It's pretty simple.
00:08:31It's not so simple, actually.
00:08:34Doing it all in 10 days,
00:08:35new country, finding a subject.
00:08:37Wow.
00:08:38Yeah.
00:08:38Claudia, these six filmmakers were cast
00:08:41because they're all really different.
00:08:43Are you up for seeing
00:08:44a really different perspective on the world?
00:08:46I am, but it's going to be hard to be authentic
00:08:48when you don't have, like, a crew of 50 people
00:08:50with a script and, like, no budget,
00:08:53missing planes, jet lagged.
00:08:55How do you feel about being tough on our filmmakers?
00:08:57I'm a heavy hugger, not a heavy hitter.
00:09:00No, I'm a heavy hitter.
00:09:03Bring it on.
00:09:04Bring it on, I say.
00:09:06John, you were on the show in 1997.
00:09:08What was the toughest storytelling lesson
00:09:10that you learned out there on the road?
00:09:12Me, personally, I kind of wrote, you know,
00:09:15a beginning, middle and end
00:09:17to everything before I went there.
00:09:18And then you'd deviate from it totally.
00:09:20And then, like, you'd trip over
00:09:22and be thrown somewhere else or whatever.
00:09:24But I found just cockily kind of going,
00:09:27oh, I'll just go there and I'll work it out
00:09:29and I'll just meet someone or whatever.
00:09:31Like, that never worked for me.
00:09:33The key difference, though,
00:09:34between this and the first season
00:09:36is that they don't know where they're going,
00:09:37so they can't write the beginning,
00:09:39the middle or the end.
00:09:40There can be no pre-planning for any of these films.
00:09:43Does that send a shiver down your spine?
00:09:44Yeah, but the reason for that is
00:09:46they can just bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop
00:09:47and kind of find people.
00:09:49Like, we couldn't do that.
00:09:50We have to, like, get on the telephone
00:09:52to ring someone who knew someone
00:09:53who knew someone in Sicily.
00:09:56And there wasn't a season before us
00:09:58that we could kind of go,
00:10:00oh, so we do that or whatever.
00:10:01So, yeah, it was totally crazy.
00:10:03There was a bit of post, wasn't there?
00:10:04Because they blurred out your penis
00:10:06when you were running naked through the streets.
00:10:08Yeah, they blurred it out.
00:10:10I remember getting a phone call
00:10:11while I was in one of the companies going,
00:10:12good news, the censors at ABC say
00:10:15we can put your unblurred penis on.
00:10:18And I said, I don't want that.
00:10:20I only did it because I thought it could be blurred.
00:10:22And then they were giving me this thing of how,
00:10:25oh, it's really good
00:10:26because women are usually nude in things
00:10:28and this is going to be a feminist,
00:10:30you know, like it's a man nude or whatever.
00:10:31And I said, can't I like donate some sort of like
00:10:34some beanbag to the feminist reading room
00:10:37at a university rather than my big statement going to be...
00:10:41Your big statement.
00:10:42Yeah, my big statement.
00:10:43Oh, your big statement.
00:10:46Well, there was no gentle landing for our intrepid six.
00:10:50New country, new culture, first deadline.
00:10:53And for some, an urgent quest to find a chemist
00:10:56and the Filipino word for imodium.
00:10:58Here's everything that's gone down.
00:11:00The good, the bad, the stuff you don't see on TripAdvisor.
00:11:05Just landed in the Philippines.
00:11:07Welcome to Manila.
00:11:09Last time I had chicken foot was in Peru
00:11:12and I ended up shooting myself for the next four days.
00:11:17What's Vegas?
00:11:19That place is to be overstimulated.
00:11:21Hello.
00:11:23I am in Egypt.
00:11:25Mostly a big building,
00:11:27but if you walk all the way across...
00:11:28Here you go.
00:11:29There's a big guy.
00:11:31Hi.
00:11:32Hi.
00:11:33Hello.
00:11:33I'm in India, about to get a spiritual reading.
00:11:36Mmm.
00:11:39Do you think they'll know that I'm a tourist?
00:11:42I'm in Alaska.
00:11:44Drinking cold choccy milkshake
00:11:46in negative 30 degrees Celsius.
00:11:51In, um, Moldova in this nightclub
00:11:54with this weird underground city.
00:11:58I sound wrong, but I'm not.
00:12:01Waking up in Vegas.
00:12:03I'm jet-lagged beyond belief.
00:12:05And yet, we must make a video.
00:12:09Admittedly, I didn't know this place existed a few days ago.
00:12:12I'm going to go for a walk.
00:12:13Try to talk to some people, maybe.
00:12:15The secret police in Egypt
00:12:17are not fans of, of filming in public.
00:12:21Missed my flight.
00:12:23It's really flight embarrassing, actually.
00:12:30So, we've got stuck in, uh, low tide.
00:12:34I'm in some random remote village, um,
00:12:37on the border of Ukraine.
00:12:38We were pretty, like, quickly approached
00:12:40by the military, um, slightly aggressive,
00:12:43hands on their guns.
00:12:44Basically told us we couldn't film there.
00:12:47Had to stop editing and focus.
00:12:50Second copy on an upset gut.
00:12:53Pray for me.
00:12:54Crisis averted.
00:12:56Getting directed to the toilet right now.
00:12:58Right.
00:12:59Five pesos?
00:13:00Yes.
00:13:00Can I pay when I come back?
00:13:01Well, I'll say this is my toilet paper.
00:13:05So, from all across the world,
00:13:07here are our next generation of racers.
00:13:14Hi, gang!
00:13:16Jaden, where are you?
00:13:18Are you in a market?
00:13:19Hey, Zen, I'm in, uh, the middle of Manila right now.
00:13:22I'm actually in a little Chinatown market.
00:13:24I feel like a bit of a fraud.
00:13:26Why do you feel like a fraud?
00:13:27Well, I'm in Chinatown, but I'm in the Philippines.
00:13:30Like, it doesn't sound right, does it?
00:13:33Mikaela, I see a window.
00:13:35I see glass.
00:13:36I see not much else.
00:13:37If you caught me five minutes ago, you would have seen the gorgeous snow outside.
00:13:42I'm in Alaska, and it's been snowing today.
00:13:44Are you keeping nice and warm?
00:13:46I'm sitting on top of the heater, so yes.
00:13:49And Elliot, where are you right now?
00:13:52I'm in Chisinau, Moldova.
00:13:54It's actually quite cold.
00:13:55It's not Alaska cold, but cold.
00:13:57I love that you're already competing with who's got it worse.
00:14:01Kate, it looks pretty warm where you are.
00:14:04I'm in Mumbai, baby, sweating bullets.
00:14:08But it's the city of dreams.
00:14:10Well, it is so good to see all of you.
00:14:12You're all looking happy, healthy, alive, which I'm just quite relieved at, quite frankly.
00:14:18Well, guys, what do you reckon?
00:14:19Should we watch some movies?
00:14:21Yes!
00:14:26Let's go to our very first destination.
00:14:28The Philippines, a nation of over 7,000 islands.
00:14:33Jayden landed in the bustling capital of Manila,
00:14:36but soon hopped, skipped, or more accurately, skipped to a tiny remote fishing island.
00:14:42Jayden, how did you find your story?
00:14:45Yeah, I think my story sort of came about just by the generosity of the amazing Filipino people.
00:14:52I had a little brush with luck where on a pretty empty plane,
00:14:55I ended up sitting next to this Filipino guy, Paul.
00:14:58And Paul was dead set the biggest legend I think I've ever met in my life
00:15:03because by the time we'd landed, he'd linked me up with two of his friends.
00:15:08He had booked me a van, a ferry, a taxi, a boat, a translator, accommodation,
00:15:16and all the accommodation back to where I began.
00:15:19And it just sort of all came together from that.
00:15:22You got very lucky, Jayden.
00:15:24Here is Pamilia Muna, which translates to Family First.
00:15:29Let's take a look.
00:15:43Let's take a look.
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00:18:01I don't know.
00:18:20Parang wala na siya sa Ayamob.
00:18:28At saka wala na rin isda.
00:18:32Minsan kung wala naman...
00:18:33Pangalabaw sira na nasisirahan na namin yung bahayang isda,
00:18:37mag-harap naman kami yung bagong bahayang isda.
00:18:40Kasi alam rin namin yung isisira.
00:18:44Kasi isipin ko naman,
00:18:46I received a lot of money from the mungbong because instead of $250, I received a lot of money from
00:18:54the kawil,
00:18:55I received a lot of money from the mungbong from $1,015 that I received.
00:19:01That's what we're saying.
00:19:03We know that we all know that everything is missing,
00:19:06that the chorus is missing here.
00:19:10We thought, but we didn't really think about that.
00:19:18We thought, but we didn't really think about it.
00:19:36Jayden, really nicely shot.
00:19:39I really like your film.
00:19:44It was so nicely structured because you have that shot of him diving in the reef to begin with,
00:19:52and it's so pristine and beautiful.
00:19:54And then I didn't know that this stuff happened there.
00:19:59And so it came as a complete surprise to me.
00:20:02Oh, thank you.
00:20:03I never thought I'd be sitting here hearing about how much you liked my film.
00:20:09Yeah, I think you did a fabulous job.
00:20:11I thought it was so subversive how you told that story.
00:20:14You basically filmed tragedy like it was beauty, which I thought was possibly, I mean, I loved it.
00:20:21I'm not criticising you, but it was possibly immoral.
00:20:24And maybe you know more about this, because often if a documentary like that was filmed,
00:20:30like the filmmaker would make sure would really, by the way they shot it, by the musical choice,
00:20:35it would be, I'm going to really signal that this is bad.
00:20:39Listen, think of the title of his film.
00:20:42It's Family First, isn't it?
00:20:44Oh yeah, yeah.
00:20:44And it's sort of like, he's doing this so his kids won't have to,
00:20:47and maybe his kids will never have the opportunity because the reef's going to be absolutely gone.
00:20:52Oh, totally.
00:20:53Yeah, I'm not saying it's bad.
00:20:55I'm saying that made it more interesting.
00:20:56I don't think you're endorsing his way of life.
00:21:00You're just investigating it.
00:21:02Oh, totally I don't think, I'm just saying that you made choices.
00:21:04I'm complimenting you that you made choices that a more, less subversive filmmaker wouldn't have made.
00:21:10Like you made it really kind of uncomfortable in a great way.
00:21:15Yeah, I found it incredibly bleak, devastating.
00:21:19But I felt like I sort of wanted to be manipulated more actually.
00:21:23We got the dynamite up quite early.
00:21:27I would like to have been held in suspense, like being a mystery about,
00:21:31well how is this guy, is he a fish whisperer?
00:21:35Like how is he bringing in four times more fish than everyone else?
00:21:39And then I would just do a rug pull and just end on the exploding and then out.
00:21:46And then it would be like, you're just left with like, what?
00:21:53Like it's like a complete rug pull, like a punch in the stomach.
00:21:56That would be such a cheap shot, Claudia, you know.
00:22:00That's me, that's me.
00:22:01Everything's all right, you know, and then boom at the end, come on.
00:22:07I just felt like I sat in the bleakness for too long, it was too much for me.
00:22:11But I mean, he's sad too.
00:22:13He knows he's destroying something that he loves.
00:22:17Yeah.
00:22:17And I think that there's a real poignancy in the film.
00:22:21Sure, definitely, definitely.
00:22:25Well, David Lynch might well have been speaking about Jayden when he said,
00:22:29Ideas are like fish.
00:22:30If you want to catch the little fish, stay in the shallow water.
00:22:33But if you want to catch the big fish, you got to go deeper.
00:22:37Ten days ago, our most Lynchian filmmaker, Kate, landed in India.
00:22:42The world's most populated country with an estimated 1.47 billion people.
00:22:49I think everyone can tell there's a bit of a dodgy connection in India,
00:22:53so we're not getting Kate super clear.
00:22:55But we've got a little bit of Kate, which is wonderful.
00:22:57Kate.
00:22:58G'day.
00:22:58You started your journey in Goa.
00:23:00What did you think of Goa when you first landed?
00:23:03Sort of felt like the Gold Coast.
00:23:05There was something un-Indian about it.
00:23:08So I headed to Mumbai, the city of dreams.
00:23:11No offence to Goa.
00:23:12No offence taken.
00:23:14I'm talking on behalf of Goa here, of course.
00:23:16Well, let's take a look at Kate's film.
00:23:19Here is Live the Ultra Life.
00:23:41Jürgen likes to dance the negative feelings away.
00:23:48And Quran?
00:23:50Quran likes to click.
00:23:53I like to click memories of people.
00:23:57It's click.
00:23:58In one click, I capture everything.
00:24:00The moment, the happiness.
00:24:02I like to click.
00:24:04It's not about photography.
00:24:06Photography is just like this.
00:24:08But it's clicking some memories.
00:24:10I like to click.
00:24:11It's not about money and all.
00:24:13I like to click the memories.
00:24:19Others like to sit by the beach and watch the sunset.
00:24:24And some people like to jump up and down in clubs.
00:24:29And drink alcohol.
00:24:30Which is not good for your health.
00:24:37Chiton likes to hang off trains to relax.
00:24:45Bollywood style.
00:24:49They thought we impressed the girl in Mumbai.
00:24:55Some people do the laundry as a little distraction from intrusive thoughts.
00:25:10Dabbling in a bit of spiritual healing can't hurt.
00:25:15Ashwini told me that you can manifest positivity just by thinking it.
00:25:24I've often felt a little hopeless.
00:25:27And I have to admit, it has sometimes been difficult to fit in.
00:25:35We all have our own crosses to bear.
00:25:39Some are larger than others.
00:25:44However, I would argue that if you have a little faith, you'll be right.
00:25:51It's so easy to get mixed up in the hustle and bustle.
00:25:56But even a simple daily act can be a sign of divine intervention.
00:26:04Such as relaxing on a train.
00:26:11Or you can have a click.
00:26:15It's my sister I clicked.
00:26:17She looks like some idol, no?
00:26:23And dance the sinful thoughts away.
00:26:31These are just some examples of living the ultralife.
00:26:44I really love that.
00:26:46I thought that was beautiful.
00:26:47I was intrigued by every single one of those subjects.
00:26:51And I think India has, like, swept Kate away.
00:26:55Like, it's such a sensory assault.
00:26:58India, the smells and the colours.
00:26:59And I think Kate's really captured that.
00:27:02And I like your crazy, droll voiceover.
00:27:07It's like a diary entry.
00:27:09It's really personal.
00:27:10And, yeah, I really feel like I've sort of walked in your shoes.
00:27:15Sick.
00:27:16Thank you, Claudia.
00:27:18Well, can I have a contrary view?
00:27:21I think you're a filmmaker in search of a story.
00:27:25And I just don't like the voiceover.
00:27:28I think, you know, that's why professional voiceovers are paid so much money.
00:27:33Because they're good at it.
00:27:37And I found a lot of the writing cliched.
00:27:40You know, all of us have crosses to bear and you've got that big cross.
00:27:44No.
00:27:45And, you know, I think you've got to avoid those cliches in your film.
00:27:50Did you see any irony in that cliché, though?
00:27:52Do you think that maybe Kate was being a bit playful with that?
00:27:55It's such an obvious echo?
00:27:56No, it's just obvious for me.
00:28:00Yeah, India, I was so overwhelmed by the multitude of stories
00:28:04that I struggled to know what exactly I would focus on.
00:28:10I think you should try to make things a bit easier on yourself
00:28:13by going, like, pulling on the brakes somewhere and deciding,
00:28:17oh, I'm going to spend time in this church.
00:28:19I'm going to spend time with this woman who does the mind reading.
00:28:23Maybe that's going to help you form a bit of a storyline or whatever.
00:28:28Maybe you should have pulled the brakes and spent time with a train guy
00:28:32or whatever like that.
00:28:33Yeah, he was so cute.
00:28:35Why didn't you stick with him?
00:28:39I think she's got a really specific voice and a tone that she's going to keep sculpting
00:28:47and it's going to be more refined and it's going to get more specific and even better.
00:28:52Yeah, I think that you're, you know, you're obviously curious in your filmmaking
00:28:57and that's a really good thing.
00:29:02Next up, from India to Cairo.
00:29:04This week, William spent a significant portion of the ABC budget actually getting to Egypt,
00:29:11taking a carefully plotted 34-hour route around restricted airspace.
00:29:17William, you've been sent on an expedition with all the gear you could possibly need
00:29:22to make this film.
00:29:23That's pretty easy, right?
00:29:24Oh, I mean, not quite.
00:29:26Um, salaamu alaykum, everyone.
00:29:28Welcome to Egypt.
00:29:29Uh, yeah, like you said, I took 34 hours to get there,
00:29:33met up with a fixer, tried to figure out, you know, what the go was on the ground
00:29:38and immediately he said, oh, I'm surprised you got your, your, um, camera through.
00:29:42I'm sure they would have confiscated it otherwise.
00:29:45Um, I asked a couple of my other creative friends, uh, who I've met during my time in Cairo
00:29:50and they all said, yeah, the best camera in Egypt is the smallest one.
00:29:53So what you're about to see is all shot on iPhone.
00:29:57Wow.
00:29:58So you just pivoted straight off the bat.
00:30:00Just locked in, baby.
00:30:03Absolutely.
00:30:04Nothing went to plan, but the film exists anyway.
00:30:07I don't know.
00:30:08I reckon that sounds like a pretty perfect start to a filmmaking competition on TV.
00:30:13Here is your film, which you've titled Al Asmar.
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00:33:19working under a lot of restrictions which you can see that you can't get a
00:33:24lot of context like I was really hoping to see the rest of the street I was
00:33:28curious about the choice of music can you explain that I'm not sure how much I
00:33:33can really explain that beyond it being like funny okay I actually failed to see
00:33:42the point of this film really sorry I mean I wanted it to go somewhere and I
00:33:51don't know that it did for me I I thought it was vaguely amusing to start and then
00:33:59I don't know that it went anywhere did you have trouble finding a through line
00:34:07for this film I I found it difficult to interview in Arabic actually yeah I
00:34:16think it shows because that's very difficult trying to interpret what he's
00:34:21saying and how you're going to incorporate it into your material why
00:34:27is it haram for kids under one to wear jeans yeah bones are too small I guess
00:34:34that's all I really know too you're gonna have to ask him yeah I can't ask him
00:34:39you were there William or that's all I could get out of him again I'm not I'm
00:34:43not well read in the Quran so I guess I mean yeah soon as I'd find out that he
00:34:49was claiming jeans were haram I would have followed I would have been down to
00:34:53the local mosque straightaway trying to find out more about that yeah I mean I
00:34:59ended up liking this guy and you know contrary to Margaret I'm like I actually
00:35:03quite like the film so I'm pretty happy of course you do it's your baby yeah
00:35:10anyway when you know you you did it and you did it under extraordinary
00:35:15circumstances so you know well done I'm sorry I don't like it more that's all
00:35:21right every creative person has to face this moment you let go of the work and
00:35:27you find out how people respond to it it's not easy but it's pretty courageous next up
00:35:32Elliot landed in one of the least visited countries in Europe Moldova Elliot
00:35:38you'd never even heard of Moldova so how did you go finding a story when you
00:35:42landed yeah admittedly I was a bit shocked when they told me I was going
00:35:46there but um I pretty much yeah left my little hotel and then went to a park and
00:35:51I was walking around and I saw this girl sitting there she was cool she had like
00:35:55these weird sunnies on and kind of smiled at each other and I started talking to
00:36:00her and I asked her to go to lunch it turns out she was Ukrainian and yeah that's
00:36:08kind of where it I guess it started so is asking people out on dates going to be
00:36:12your secret weapon throughout the entire season of race around the world it
00:36:17wasn't a date it was a friendly you know hey I'm here for the first time kind of
00:36:22thing that is a date and here I was thinking Casanova was from Italy turns out
00:36:28he could be in Moldova but something tells me romance isn't what this story is
00:36:33about here is between war and life I fled the war in Ukraine with my mother and my
00:36:43birth after that I was a refugee in many countries now I have found my peace here
00:36:51in Chisinau Moldova
00:36:56but I have to go back to survive
00:37:05I have cancer my doctors are in Kiev they told me I need surgery
00:37:13as soon as possible despite Russian strikes and all the danger I'm coming
00:37:20back home but I'm nervous to go back because I don't want to relieve the
00:37:26horrors of war
00:37:33when the full-scale invasion started as they entered the city and they started
00:37:39shooting everywhere from different weapon there was a bus on my street and they
00:37:45started shooting into it there were 30 passengers locked into inside the bus and
00:37:52they started burning alive there is no chance for escape in that moment
00:38:05the only way I can go back is with someone I trust
00:38:21under martial law in Ukraine most men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave their country Yaroslav was
00:38:27injured in battle and unable to continue military service and for this reason he can transport people
00:38:33between Moldova and Ukraine
00:38:41So if we say not who? who? then people just should stay in Ukraine or die or
00:38:48other forms of course I don't see just
00:38:51I would have to knock my head and say my head is one of one America
00:38:55one of one
00:38:55to close them in even a cabinet and has to work
00:38:57They don't feel it.
00:38:58And now all the world's population is suffering.
00:39:00It happens not only in us, but in Russia.
00:39:03It goes further and further.
00:39:05And what they want to achieve, I can't understand.
00:39:08They are the third world's forces.
00:39:15I write with my daughter.
00:39:19I love her very much.
00:39:20I love her very much.
00:39:23To Kyiv, it takes about 10-11 hours.
00:39:28But it depends on the road, the weather conditions and the land.
00:39:36Despite Russian attacks, I'm still missing my home.
00:39:40I'm really eager to come back.
00:39:43So I'm really excited.
00:39:50War took my home and cancer is trying to take my body.
00:39:55I will not let it happen.
00:40:01Whoa!
00:40:05Standing ovation for that one.
00:40:08That was amazing.
00:40:11Um, it's Elliot?
00:40:12Yeah.
00:40:13Wow.
00:40:14The strength and the humanity and the connection to your subjects
00:40:18and the drone shots and the cockatiel.
00:40:22Like, it just had everything.
00:40:23And it had structure, beginning, middle and end.
00:40:25It's really moving.
00:40:26And you did that with jet lag.
00:40:28And it's really a real significant piece.
00:40:31Thanks.
00:40:34Hey, for once we're going to agree.
00:40:37Because I think it's very, very well done, Elliot.
00:40:40I mean, I think you're a filmmaker, actually.
00:40:43It shows.
00:40:45Thanks, Margaret.
00:40:46You're an icon and this is quite surreal.
00:40:49Is this the girl you met in the park?
00:40:51Yeah.
00:40:52God, that was a lucky connection, wasn't it?
00:40:57No, I think we'll find he has many lucky connections where you kind of start going,
00:41:02oh, no, he's just one of those kind of people who finds these kind of stories.
00:41:07Yeah.
00:41:07I agree.
00:41:08It's that curiosity about, you know, human lives that makes great stories.
00:41:14Now, Elliot, if I was in the edit suite with you when I saw that, I would have said to
00:41:19you,
00:41:20hey, is there anything more about the bird?
00:41:24I'm not joking here.
00:41:26And I was like, what, she fled with this bird?
00:41:30Now she's dealing with cancer with this bird.
00:41:32I mean, the bird, when the strike started, she left with her mother and put the bird in a box
00:41:38and then was a refugee in Georgia and Turkey and basically ended up in Moldova with this bird.
00:41:46And the bird's like eight years old.
00:41:49I kind of wondered whether that could have been the film with all the same themes or whatever,
00:41:55but, like, what would you have said to me in the edit suite when I would have said,
00:41:59can you kind of slightly shift this and make it about the bird?
00:42:05No.
00:42:06Yeah, what would you have said, Elliot?
00:42:07Honestly, there's multiple ways I could have told this story.
00:42:11My original story was going to be about the driver
00:42:13and then the more I kind of got to know Tati, the more I realised that she was the story.
00:42:19This is the first time all three judges have agreed.
00:42:22This is huge, Elliot. Congratulations.
00:42:24Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
00:42:27I wanted more bird, though.
00:42:30In the USA, in the state of Nevada, Lucinda has found herself in what's known as Sin City.
00:42:37Yep, you know it. Las Vegas.
00:42:40Lucinda, you are clearly on the strip.
00:42:42All I see is neon.
00:42:44Are you in your fancy hotel room right now?
00:42:46I am in my very fancy hotel.
00:42:49$500 a night.
00:42:50And I'm not really leaving because it's so extremely overstimulating outside.
00:42:55What is going on?
00:42:56I've never had a culture shock as crazy as coming to Las Vegas.
00:43:00And, yeah, I can't say I'm ever going to come back, to be honest.
00:43:02It begs the question, are you terrified about where we're going to send you next?
00:43:08Always.
00:43:10Always. I'm on the verge of tears.
00:43:14Well, Lucinda, let's take a look at your film.
00:43:17Here is The Kings of Pop.
00:43:21I'm in Las Vegas.
00:43:22And everywhere I look, I see dead people.
00:43:27Ahem.
00:43:31Mama me.
00:43:33Michael Jackson's.
00:43:34They're everywhere.
00:43:35But in a city where money talks, are they doing it for the love or for the Benjamins?
00:43:48I'm Tony Foote. Yes. Yeah. I'm not Michael. I'm Tony Foote. How you doing?
00:43:52The last seven years I've been on Fremont Street. So I dance about 300-something days out of the year.
00:43:58I do good enough where it puts a roof in my head and takes care of my bills.
00:44:02I don't know what I do half the time, but it's great for the people.
00:44:05It was clear to me that Tony would keep on dancing, tips or otherwise.
00:44:09Was this the case across the whole city?
00:44:11Um, just before we start the thing, let's figure it out.
00:44:16Payment? Yeah. Of course. Let's do it.
00:44:17I found Michael Morey on a website where you could hire performers for a fee.
00:44:21He agreed to meet me for $300.
00:44:23I'm an artist. I'm a tribute artist.
00:44:27I started making money when I was 15.
00:44:29I do weddings. I do parties. Mostly, like, private events.
00:44:32So it's a very, like, meticulous study.
00:44:35It's, like, it's, like, pretty much a sign, so...
00:44:46I respected Michael's hustle and his clear devotion to studying the art of MJ.
00:44:52It was time to enter the big leagues.
00:44:59How does an impersonator go from street to Las Vegas stage?
00:45:04Hey, guys. This is your moonwalking, elbow-dropping, DDT-giving, pop-king-of-wrestling, your cerebral attraction, Santana Jackson, and
00:45:11welcome to my casa.
00:45:13Hee-hee! Ow!
00:45:15Son of a bitch.
00:45:17My nose.
00:45:18Blanket in the back. Get up.
00:45:21So this is my birth blanket. I had it when I got started out here.
00:45:24My shrine to MJ from when I started homeless to when I worked my way up to being a headliner.
00:45:28Came out here from, uh, Florida.
00:45:30I had two kids, and, uh, I was trying to make some money and do something.
00:45:32A friend of mine saw me on the beach in, uh, Clearwater Beach, and they were like, hey, you gotta
00:45:36come to, uh, Vegas.
00:45:38That's, you got good talent, you know, and I wasn't doing makeup.
00:45:40But I came out here anyway.
00:45:42I mean, my first card was actually this card here.
00:45:44So it shows I wasn't even wearing makeup.
00:45:46I was just wearing these costumes.
00:45:49Hey, move.
00:45:50Move it and lose it. Beat it. Beat it.
00:45:53Don't carry me black or white. Gotta go.
00:45:54I see my, my first scooter.
00:45:56When I first paycheck I got from MJ Live, I bought this scooter.
00:45:58I'm always paying tribute to Michael.
00:46:00Even when I'm in the ring, I wrestle. I'm a wrestler.
00:46:02I created a moonwalk DDT, so I went viral for that.
00:46:05What's that?
00:46:06It's a move when I kick the guy in the ground when I moonwalk with him and then I plant
00:46:08him.
00:46:09On his head.
00:46:10As a Michael trivia artist, you know, we're not him.
00:46:13Michael could stand there and not do nothing.
00:46:16And everybody in the audience is passed out.
00:46:19That's all, he might turn his head.
00:46:21Someone just fainted.
00:46:23That person just had a baby.
00:46:26Boom.
00:46:27Three people died.
00:46:30There's more MJ trivia artists now, but where were you when Michael was around?
00:46:34There weren't a lot of MJ trivia artists.
00:46:36Michael passes and everyone looks at it as a money opportunity.
00:46:39Oh, I can get paid.
00:46:40I can do this.
00:46:41I never looked at it like that.
00:46:42I'm still me.
00:46:43You know, I'm still, I get to do my passion.
00:46:45I get to do what I love.
00:46:46And I, I thank Michael for it.
00:46:48And because of Michael, I'm where I'm at today.
00:46:50You know, I'm paying tribute to a man that I grew up wishing I got to meet.
00:46:54Wishing I got to hang out with, dance.
00:46:55I might have been his best friend.
00:46:56You thought Macaulay Culkin was his friend?
00:46:58Macaulay would have had to be there.
00:46:59Cause you know, once I stepped in, it would have been bad suicide.
00:47:03Now, it was clear.
00:47:05It takes a lot more money to love MJ this much.
00:47:11Hee hee.
00:47:12Love you.
00:47:20I like the way it started out.
00:47:22Tonally, I thought it was going to be a bit like best in show or like white lotus or those
00:47:27sorts of vibes.
00:47:28It was sort of intelligently satirical or something.
00:47:31But then the tone shifted and then I didn't know what I was meant to feel about the subject.
00:47:37And I felt a little bit conflicted, like, am I laughing at this person or am I empathizing with this
00:47:43person?
00:47:44And I just felt a bit, little bit confused.
00:47:49It's a bit too chaotic for me.
00:47:52I must say, I wasn't interested in the subject matter.
00:47:57So that's, you know, a bit of a turn off to begin with.
00:48:01But I also found the way you put it together, the editing of it was actually rather jarring.
00:48:09Yeah, listen, my favourite bit in the film was where you were in it for the seven seconds.
00:48:14Like that whole thing of that awkwardness over the money.
00:48:18I can't even explain why, but it's like, yeah, I think you've got the kind of storytelling thing where you
00:48:23being in it and people seeing you kind of trying to struggle through things is going to be, yeah, really
00:48:30what you should like lean into.
00:48:32Do you know, I'm absolutely the opposite of you.
00:48:35I like documentaries where the filmmaker doesn't intrude too much.
00:48:41Please do not watch any of my shows.
00:48:43I do.
00:48:46There are a rare exception.
00:48:50And you're one of them.
00:48:51I mean, I've got to admit.
00:48:53Don't listen to her, Lucinda.
00:48:54Don't listen to her.
00:48:55There are some mixed messages going on.
00:48:57Lucinda, you are a content creator.
00:48:59You've got tens of thousands of followers on Instagram.
00:49:03You make your own short video content day in, day out.
00:49:07Why didn't you put yourself in this first film?
00:49:09Um, maybe because that's what's expected.
00:49:11And I feel like maybe I needed to take myself out of the story and see how I could do
00:49:17it, knowing that I can rely on that, hopefully, in the coming weeks.
00:49:22Yeah, yeah.
00:49:22I just think one of your strong hands would be putting yourself more into these.
00:49:27And not only you.
00:49:28Like, I'd say that's the same to William if he's still listening.
00:49:31If he hasn't, like, marched off in a huff.
00:49:33Because Margaret insulted him or something.
00:49:36The flies took him off.
00:49:38That's not fair.
00:49:39Yeah.
00:49:42Well, we've crisscrossed all over the world and there's only one destination left.
00:49:47All the way over in the largest state in the USA, Michaela was sent to Alaska.
00:49:54Remote, vast and currently a crisp minus 18 degrees.
00:49:59Oh, my goodness.
00:50:00Michaela, coming from Western Australia, is this the first time you've seen snow?
00:50:04I've never seen snow before.
00:50:07And, yeah, it's insane.
00:50:09It's mind-blowing to me.
00:50:11Nothing looks like anything I've ever seen before.
00:50:13Alaska is a massive state.
00:50:16Where did you go and what drew you to your destination?
00:50:19I decided to go to the northernmost town in Alaska called Ukweavik, or it used to be known as Barrow.
00:50:25And it's in the Arctic Circle.
00:50:28It's literally the furthest you can go.
00:50:30Wow.
00:50:30So, if you've ever been curious to visit the Arctic Circle, Michaela is about to take you there.
00:50:35Here is Arctic Willows.
00:50:41I don't know if I want to be here forever.
00:50:57I've always felt like a black sheep, like I don't fit in.
00:51:04I think about moving away a lot just because, you know, it could be better.
00:51:13I actually have moved away a few times, but every time I needed to come back, it got homesick.
00:51:21The culture keeps me here.
00:51:23That's the only thing that's preventing me from running off.
00:51:25If I don't get our tutors of food for a certain amount of time, I start to feel sick.
00:51:31That's something that a lot of Native people experience.
00:51:35My mom is not in the place.
00:51:38I finally, like, made the big decision two days before he was born, thinking that I had two months to
00:51:46plan.
00:51:47He was born two days later at 32 weeks.
00:51:51I never thought that I would eat a single pound at 20, by choice.
00:51:57He is actually biologically my brother.
00:52:00And I'm adopting him.
00:52:03It's a symbol for our willows.
00:52:07We have our willows up here.
00:52:08And they're kind of seen as a symbol of resilience because they will grow back from anything.
00:52:15They'll thrive through anything.
00:52:24My family is very, very religious.
00:52:27When the church came in, a lot of our traditional practices were frowned upon and discouraged and bad even.
00:52:38Other entire people were not allowed to dance.
00:52:41The church came out.
00:53:07I still hold on the fear of the judgment of a matter.
00:53:13And a lot of people are like, it's easier now, life is easier now, we've got running
00:53:19water and we've got stores, you can just go to the store.
00:53:24I believe in going back to our traditional practices.
00:53:32Our houses were warmer back then is what I'm trying to say.
00:53:35Our clothes were warmer than the store-bought clothes.
00:53:39Our foods nourished us better than the store-bought foods.
00:53:44The thing that keeps me here is being in touch with my culture.
00:53:47It's very important to me.
00:53:56Maybe I need to find a way to stay connected before I can go because I don't know if I
00:54:03want
00:54:03to be here forever.
00:54:08I also think that I need to come to terms with the fact that I'm not like everybody else.
00:54:18But that's terrifying.
00:54:20And it's not easy anywhere.
00:54:23Life is not easy anywhere.
00:54:31Maybe there's a purpose that we haven't discovered yet.
00:54:35We're still so early and disturbing.
00:54:46I really loved that.
00:54:47I really empathised with your protagonist.
00:54:52She had this gentle strength.
00:54:53I thought it was a really confident piece of filmmaking.
00:54:57She was obviously very comfortable and she trusted you as a storyteller.
00:55:02I think it's the most moved I've been tonight.
00:55:07I think there was a film in there, but I don't know that you found it.
00:55:13I came out with more questions than answers in the film.
00:55:19Is the baby hers?
00:55:21Is it her biological brother?
00:55:23Has she adopted it?
00:55:25Why has she adopted it?
00:55:26She's from a religious family.
00:55:28Why isn't the religious family looking after the kid?
00:55:32She's ambivalent.
00:55:33She wants to go and then she wants a culture.
00:55:36You introduced a lot of elements without, you know, giving any explanation, you know.
00:55:44I love that ambiguity.
00:55:46And she said, I'm adopting it.
00:55:48It was my mum.
00:55:49If you could hear, she said, it's my mum's baby.
00:55:52And she wasn't in a good place.
00:55:54She has a strong connection to community.
00:55:56But why are we going to unpack every part of her family life?
00:56:00I think these two, if I can kind of bring them together, which I know you won't like, Margaret.
00:56:05Oh, no, I will.
00:56:06I will love it.
00:56:06I think the happy medium is that maybe you could have been clearer about what the ambiguity was.
00:56:13Totally fine to have ambiguity.
00:56:15In fact, it's better.
00:56:16But I think you should have held the hand a bit more about these tensions and these things that have
00:56:21loose ends.
00:56:23You can be clear about the ambiguities is what I'm getting at.
00:56:25Does that make sense, Michaela?
00:56:26Or am I a mad person?
00:56:27No, it makes sense to me, which is really important.
00:56:31Yes.
00:56:31Totally.
00:56:32Not ambiguous at all.
00:56:34But, yeah, you don't think about the reception when you're editing it so quickly.
00:56:39So it's like kind of all hitting now.
00:56:42It's the first time I've kind of got to watch the film without editing it.
00:56:45Yeah, that's an incredible point.
00:56:47You make these films, but you're reminded that you're making them for an audience.
00:56:51You're making them for hundreds of thousands, millions of people around Australia.
00:56:56And three very tough judges, I have to say.
00:57:01Oh.
00:57:04Well, there you go.
00:57:05Six incredible films from around the world.
00:57:08Every single one completely different to the other.
00:57:11And now we have to score them.
00:57:14Each week, the judges pick their top two films.
00:57:18They give two points to their favourite film and one point to the runner-up.
00:57:22At the end of the ten weeks, the filmmaker with the highest score gets their own project funded by the
00:57:28ABC.
00:57:28A dream for anyone at any stage in their career, let alone at the beginning.
00:57:34All right.
00:57:35Margaret, your top two films.
00:57:38My top film is Elliot's from Moldova and that gets him two points from me.
00:57:46And my second, but it's so close to being a first, is Jayden's from the Philippines.
00:57:52And for that, he gets one point.
00:57:56Two beautiful films.
00:57:58Claudia, how about you?
00:58:00It was almost a line ball for me as well.
00:58:04Elliot gets two points from me and Michaela gets one.
00:58:13And John?
00:58:15Jayden, two points.
00:58:17Elliot, one point.
00:58:18Okay.
00:58:22Some clear favourites in the first week of Race Around the World.
00:58:27Okay, let's check the first episode leaderboard.
00:58:32The big winner this week is Elliot with five points.
00:58:38Jayden is the runner-up with three.
00:58:42And Michaela is on one point.
00:58:45William, Lucinda and Kate are not on the leaderboard yet.
00:58:48But the adventure has only just begun.
00:58:52Well, Australia, we've heard what the judges think about the films tonight.
00:58:55Now it's your turn.
00:58:56Go to abc.net.au slash R-A-T-W to vote for your favourite.
00:59:02All right.
00:59:03How are you feeling, team?
00:59:05Pretty bloody good.
00:59:07Honestly, blown to bits by Margaret.
00:59:09It had to happen.
00:59:10And I love that.
00:59:12It's time to find out where you're all heading next.
00:59:15Are you ready?
00:59:17Never.
00:59:24Oh, Wales!
00:59:27Kate is frozen but does not look happy about going to Greenland.
00:59:31From India to Greenland.
00:59:33From India to Greenland.
00:59:33Oh, that's hilarious.
00:59:34Kate, what's running through your mind right now?
00:59:37My favourite colour is green.
00:59:41She's funny.
00:59:42I don't really know much about Greenland.
00:59:44You know what?
00:59:45That's a story idea for me.
00:59:47Elliot, you're the front runner so far.
00:59:49Is South Africa a good place for you to head next to make a film?
00:59:52I might try and do something a little less heavy.
00:59:55Maybe something nice about a, I don't know, a little baby giraffe or something.
01:00:03Mikaela, you looked pretty excited about heading to South Korea.
01:00:06Any story ideas forming in your head?
01:00:08I know the fashion there is insane.
01:00:10It's like the place for fashion at the moment.
01:00:12It's very exciting.
01:00:14You can also get a really good facial.
01:00:16So a bit of me time on the road.
01:00:18Noted.
01:00:19And Jaden in Peru.
01:00:21This one was written in the stars.
01:00:22I mean, you love adventure.
01:00:24Will you be climbing Machu Picchu in the next 10 days?
01:00:27Look, I don't know about Machu Picchu.
01:00:29I think my main concern is after last time in Peru,
01:00:32that I hope I'm not making a four minute film
01:00:34of me sitting on the toilet with questionable sound effects.
01:00:39Can I just, one bit of advice,
01:00:41can you just steer clear of the chicken feet?
01:00:43You know I can't promise you that, Zan.
01:00:45I think I can actually hear the bell,
01:00:48your chicken feet are now ready in the market behind you, so...
01:00:51Yeah, I've got my guy back here.
01:00:53All the best.
01:00:54We're gonna let you go, but time is already ticking.
01:00:58Your next 10 days starts...
01:01:01..now.
01:01:02Bye, team!
01:01:03Good luck!
01:01:09That's our show.
01:01:10A big thanks to our amazing judges,
01:01:12Margaret Pomerantz, Claudia Carvin,
01:01:15and, of course, John Caffran.
01:01:20Next week, a new batch of films, new countries, new judges.
01:01:24Except for you, John.
01:01:25We're stuck with you forever.
01:01:26I'll see you next week!
01:01:27.
01:01:29.