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00:00Felt it!
00:02Making 10 films in 10 countries.
00:08The slippery slope.
00:11This is Race Around the World.
00:15I think that's a lot.
00:21Welcome to Race Around the World.
00:23I'm Zan Rowe and right now six filmmakers are scattered across the globe.
00:29Changed forever by Margaret Comerance's scathing feedback last week.
00:34Tonight we'll be travelling all over from Greenland to Jamaica, South Korea, South Africa, Peru and Wales.
00:42Because why not?
00:43Ready to meet this week's judges?
00:46Joining us are some of the biggest names in filmmaking.
00:50Our first guest judge directed an Oscar winning best picture.
00:54In his 50 year career he's made over 30 feature films.
00:57Don's Party, Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy to name a few.
01:01Let's be real, he has absolutely no reason to be here but aren't we lucky he is.
01:06Please welcome the legendary Bruce Beresford.
01:14Five years ago our next judge was making YouTube stunts.
01:18Then he and his twin brother made the hit horror film Talk To Me.
01:21Terrifying millions of viewers and becoming one of the most exciting filmmaking duos working today.
01:27Please welcome Danny Filippou.
01:38He is ready.
01:39And finally our series regular.
01:42He hasn't won an Oscar and his contribution to the horror genre is largely unintentional.
01:46It's John Safran.
01:52Bruce, you're an icon.
01:54You've had a huge career.
01:55How old were you when you made your first film?
01:58Well I made short films from the time I was about 10 on 8mm.
02:04Wow.
02:04And then I went to 16mm and then you sort of, by the time you find out you've got no
02:10talent,
02:10you're completely established.
02:14Arguable.
02:15Last week Margaret Pomerantz was in your seat giving some pretty harsh feedback to our filmmakers.
02:21She once gave one of your films 1.5 stars.
02:26Which one was that?
02:27Silent Fall.
02:28I think it was Silent Fall.
02:30It was pretty terrible.
02:33So she was right?
02:34Yes.
02:35She was right.
02:39Danny, what is harsher, seasoned film reviewers or keyboard warriors?
02:44Oh my gosh, they're both terrifying.
02:46Like, yeah, you could read one bad thing and it ruins your entire day.
02:50And you think you can get a thick skin from things but you still get really upset and emotional,
02:54don't you?
02:55Yeah, yeah, I'm very emotional.
02:56Yeah, see?
02:59So are you ready to give some feedback tonight?
03:01Yes, hopefully we don't break too many hearts.
03:03Or souls.
03:04Or souls.
03:05Or brains.
03:05But we'll do what we need to do.
03:06John, you were here last week.
03:08You delivered some really helpful feedback.
03:11Are you hoping that our racers take that feedback on?
03:13Um, yeah, unless they do and there's egg on their face and everyone blames me.
03:18And, you know, because I was saying, like, put yourself in front of the camera more.
03:22And now if they have and it's car crash after car crash, I'm not going to look good.
03:29You're going to be responsible for that.
03:31Well, what did the world throw at the racers this week?
03:34Wild weather, broken gear and local cuisine that our filmmakers and their digestive systems are still processing.
03:41Let's find out who thrived and who survived.
03:54Here in Toronto airport, I missed my flight to Jamaica.
03:59Coming off the back as well of Margaret Pomerantz ripping me a new asshole on Australian television.
04:04An absolutely fantastic start to film number two.
04:06I just landed in Greenland, a country I don't know that much about, but I watched a few YouTube videos
04:13on the plane.
04:14I'm currently inappropriately dressed for Wales.
04:20It's wild.
04:21Yesterday I was in Eastern Europe and now I'm in sunny South Africa.
04:24It's kind of mind-blowing.
04:26Welcome to South Korea.
04:27Is it what I expected?
04:28I'm not sure.
04:29I can tell you right now, the food is about one million times better than any of the food I've
04:34had in Alaska.
04:36I just brought it off the menu, no idea what it is.
04:39I literally just pointed out a picture and I was like, yep.
04:46I don't know why everyone gets so freaked out about eating weird delicacies in most countries.
04:50You can never even tell what you're eating.
04:53Anyone know what bit of a guinea pig you're meant to eat first?
04:57Oh, what have I done?
04:59Look at this guy, look at his eyes.
05:05That's actually bloody delicious.
05:07I came in to find a story.
05:10Something happened along the way.
05:12It's about three days until my film is due and I haven't started the edit, for obvious reasons.
05:20Yo.
05:25Holy shit.
05:27I was not accounting for this much rain.
05:29And we're off, baby.
05:37Old mate.
05:38I'm in the middle of a game park to film animals.
05:47Shit.
05:48My camera smashed into a bush and I fell out of the thing.
05:51My camera's fucked.
05:53Supposed to leave this country in like four days.
05:55Now I have a broken camera.
05:58I don't know what to do.
06:19I don't know what to do.
06:28I don't know what to do.
06:29The cold isn't too bad, it's pretty dry, like, Melbourne's worse.
06:33It's more bone-chilling there.
06:36Melbourne's worse than Greenland is something that I thought I'd never hear.
06:39Lucinda, you're kind of giving away where you are with your T-shirt.
06:42Just be honest, have you been wearing that T-shirt or that singlet,
06:45indeed, every single day you've been in Jamaica?
06:49Um, it still smells OK, so I would say yes or no,
06:54depending on...
06:55I don't really have to tell you, do I?
06:56Because you don't know.
06:57You can't smell me.
06:58There's no smell-o-vision on Race Around the World,
07:00and I'm kind of thankful for that.
07:02Jaden, you have got a beautiful twilight sky behind you.
07:05Where do we find you this evening?
07:07I do. I'm in Lima at the moment.
07:09I had to bail on the Amazon for some safety reasons,
07:13but it wasn't without a quick little tourist stop on the way,
07:16so I thought I'd better blend in with the locals to the best of my ability.
07:20Is that a gay pride llama that you're wearing on your head?
07:24Yeah, the llamas are all about pride around here.
07:28Now, Jaden, we've just seen what you got up to in the last 10 days.
07:31I have to ask, the guinea pig, medium rare, well done, or rare?
07:36How did you have it?
07:36Look, it was well done, but I'll tell you,
07:39if I went down to the Royal Hotel
07:41and someone chucked that up in front of me
07:43without the legs and the head with some mushroom sauce
07:45and a skewery of EB,
07:47you'd have a hard time convincing me that wasn't a schnitty.
07:52All right, who wants to see some films?
07:56The first filmmaker to kick things off is Lucinda in Jamaica,
08:01the tropical island that gave the world reggae,
08:04Grace Jones and a bobsled team.
08:06Lucinda, how did you back up after last week's roasting of your first film?
08:12Well, when it was happening, I was thinking, this is iconic.
08:14Like, how many people in Australia can say
08:16they got roasted by Margaret Pomerantz?
08:19But then I think the task at hand
08:21and the, like, nine more films that I had to make
08:23started sinking in,
08:24and I definitely had a few low moments over the last week.
08:27Last week, John said that you should put yourself
08:29into your films a lot more.
08:31Margaret disagreed.
08:32Whose advice did you go with?
08:33Well, I'm a lifelong John Safran fan,
08:37so obviously I'm listening to everything he says.
08:39And I liked what he said earlier about having egg on your face
08:42if you took his advice and it went badly, so yeah.
08:44So the pressure is actually on John right now, is it?
08:47Obviously.
08:49OK, I'm genuinely excited.
08:52Let's head to Jamaica.
08:53Here is the Pum Pum.
08:57Dating in Australia, it's abysmal.
08:59And men, I think it's all your fault.
09:02It just feels like you don't put effort in anymore.
09:04Where's the chat?
09:05The confidence?
09:06The charisma?
09:07I started feeling like it was a me problem
09:09until I found myself in the back of a taxi in Jamaica
09:11telling the driver.
09:12And he was just as surprised and appalled as I am.
09:16It feels like a lot of men in Australia
09:17are waiting for, like, women to make their first move.
09:20I'm really honest, I don't believe, like...
09:22You guys seriously don't believe me?
09:23No, no, seriously.
09:25I find it, I don't believe them.
09:27Like, why?
09:28And so I made it my mission.
09:29Can I single-handedly help Australian men get their ears back?
09:32It was time to hit the streets.
09:35Men don't approach women in Australia.
09:37Women approach them.
09:38She said, man, don't approach women in Australia.
09:41Damn!
09:41It appeared our country's approach to dating
09:43was literally laughable.
09:45So we started with the basics.
09:47Two answers a lady can give you.
09:49Is it a she gonna tell a yes or a she gonna tell a no?
09:51Is it a yes or a no?
09:52Because somebody will say yes, you know.
09:54You may get 100 no's, but I'm telling you,
09:57by the end of the day, you will get a yes.
09:59I was told that Jamaican men are so unafraid of rejection
10:02that they'll have a go, even if you're with a partner.
10:05So I paid a random British guy $10 to test out the theory.
10:08You are so beautiful.
10:09Oh, thank you.
10:10Hey, and this is?
10:12This is my boyfriend.
10:13Your boyfriend?
10:14Yeah, man, respect, man.
10:15No disrespect.
10:16I really like your wife, man.
10:18You play me.
10:19Yeah, man, too beautiful.
10:20Hey, I like you too much, man.
10:22The fearlessness was 10 out of 10.
10:24And honestly, I was inspired.
10:26Next, I went to a karaoke night
10:27where confidence is a requirement of entry.
10:31I gave a gentleman my WhatsApp.
10:33And what happened next will shock you.
10:3512 times, guys.
10:36The gentleman from last night
10:37has attempted to make contact 12 whole times.
10:40At one stage, she was asking for my iCloud login details,
10:42but honestly, this level of follow-through, I've never seen.
10:45So where does this confidence come from?
10:46And can Australian men tap into it?
10:49As a Jamaican, naturally we're born with stamina.
10:52And a lot of strength and vigor.
10:53So if you look at me right now,
10:54you can see that I'm very athletic.
10:57I have an athletic physique.
10:59So that alone shows you that I last long in bed.
11:02So right now, I can give you like two hours, three hours.
11:07That, that, that, two hours is not, is that bad?
11:10That's bad?
11:11Two hours?
11:12No, man.
11:13You look like you can manage all five hours straight, man.
11:15These claims are explosive,
11:16and they needed to be verified.
11:18Can I make fun?
11:19Do you make a match?
11:20Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:25Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:28Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:29No, for the empty, for sure.
11:31They might be wickedness, love.
11:32Yeah.
11:32Come at them.
11:34See, men in Jamaica,
11:35doesn't like your shape, your size.
11:37If you're ugly, small, fat, short,
11:40back to front, upside down, skinny,
11:42it doesn't matter what,
11:44what kind of shape you are,
11:46how you look,
11:46you're going to get somebody.
11:49I don't know.
11:50Jamaican men make you have a confidence
11:52that you wouldn't normally have about yourself.
11:54They will tell you things that
11:56you will never think
11:57that can even come from a human's mouth.
12:00At this point,
12:01I was ready to abandon my mission entirely
12:03and move to Jamaica,
12:04until I heard it.
12:05Jamaican men don't eat crutches,
12:07that's the first thing.
12:09We don't eat pum pum.
12:11So, if that is one of the requirements
12:14to satisfy a woman,
12:16you're not going to be satisfied
12:17by a Jamaican man.
12:18Sorry, men of Australia,
12:20the floor
12:21and the pum pum
12:22is yours.
12:32Do you eat pum pum?
12:41The tone here
12:43has taken a bit of a nosedive.
12:46I appreciated
12:47how bold that felt.
12:49It felt really, really out there
12:50and the energy
12:51was contagious, right?
12:55I think it's...
12:56I find it a bit sleazy.
12:58A little bit sleazy.
13:00I think it's mildly funny.
13:03I don't know
13:04that it's really
13:05all that interesting.
13:09It's so-so.
13:10I mean,
13:10fancy going to Jamaica
13:11just to do that.
13:13Well,
13:14I feel like hook-up culture
13:15is kind of interesting,
13:17like,
13:17in terms of,
13:17like,
13:18a modern-day thing,
13:18because I think it is true
13:20that men are approaching
13:21women less
13:23and, like,
13:23that feels like
13:24more of a modern-day thing.
13:25So I thought it could have been
13:26really interesting
13:27or funny
13:27to get an Australian
13:28perspective on it as well,
13:29to intercut
13:30with those locals
13:32and that way
13:33the film could have been,
13:34I think,
13:35more consumable
13:35internationally as well,
13:37so outside of just Australia.
13:38I found it sort of
13:39interesting and funny
13:40and the energy of it
13:40was, I don't know,
13:41quite charming.
13:42You're already trying to sell
13:43the overseas rights for this.
13:45You're trying to franchise it.
13:47I'm trying to franchise it,
13:48yeah.
13:48And so,
13:49your advice to Elastic
13:51was to put herself
13:51into the film as well.
13:52Yeah,
13:52and what good advice
13:53that was.
13:55Do you feel vindicated,
13:57John?
13:57Yeah, totally.
13:58I think it was like,
14:00it was,
14:00it's an uneasy watch
14:02and this sounds like
14:02in a bad way.
14:03I think it was like
14:04an uneasy watch
14:05in a good way.
14:06In the context of, like,
14:07this post-MeToo world,
14:09Western tourists
14:10kind of going into
14:11some exotic place,
14:12there's a whole thing
14:13in Jamaica.
14:14There was a doco
14:15called Rent a Rusta
14:16and it's all about,
14:18you know,
14:18white women
14:19going over to Jamaica
14:21and,
14:22you know,
14:22the whole,
14:24you know,
14:25like,
14:25what's going on there?
14:27Well, yeah,
14:27I did go down the route
14:28of the Rent a Rastas.
14:30The time when I was
14:31interviewing everyone,
14:32I was also asking them
14:33about these white women
14:34that go to Jamaica
14:35for men
14:36and everyone also
14:37had an opinion on that
14:38but I just felt like
14:38in the four minutes
14:39I couldn't capture the nuance
14:41and I wanted to be funny.
14:42Yeah, I think,
14:42I'm really happy to hear that,
14:44that you made that choice
14:45because I think
14:45it is a lot better
14:46just having this kind of
14:47unease going on
14:48in the background
14:49whilst you're doing
14:50a more kind of fun
14:51kind of push-through
14:53of things.
14:54So, yeah,
14:54I think it was really good.
14:55I think you're rather
14:56over-intellectualising it.
15:00I think it was actually
15:01fairly basic
15:02and quite slight.
15:05Don't listen to him,
15:06Lucinda.
15:08I think, yeah,
15:09keep going down this path.
15:12Love it.
15:12Thanks, guys.
15:15One down.
15:17And if that's anything
15:17to go by,
15:18we are in for quite the night.
15:20Time for our next filmmaker.
15:22And it's Jaden in Peru,
15:25home to Machu Picchu
15:26and over 4,000 varieties
15:28of potato.
15:29Jaden,
15:30how did you find
15:31this wake story?
15:32Yeah, so basically,
15:34this film involved
15:35a pretty dangerous
15:36subject matter.
15:37I had to go undercover
15:38as a white dude
15:41with a moustache
15:42and a mullet
15:42taking photos
15:43of wildlife.
15:44And my
15:45malo espanol
15:46kind of really
15:48made me fit in.
15:49So, for you gringos,
15:50that means
15:51bad Spanish.
15:53Well, let's see
15:55what Jaden found
15:56when he went
15:57undercover in Peru.
15:58Here is
15:59River of Gold.
16:33Landry of Gold.
16:51In the center, just in the look of, ojo, organizations criminales.
16:57A criminal organization that has to do with the illegal miner.
16:59Omar, these people don't send you a letter notarial.
17:02No te amenazan con hacerte una denuncia por difamación.
17:07Estas personas salen, te matan y se acabó.
17:09Ese es el tipo de gente que está operando en Madre de Dios impunemente.
17:17He visto el problema de un inicio.
17:20La minería ilegal empezó el año del 2007.
17:26Está en el caos de los lagos.
17:28Y lo que hay en Madre de Dios mueve eso, una manguera para atraer el terror a través de la
17:37motobomba.
17:38Hace un sistema de absorción en la tierra y eso jala el agua.
17:44El oro se separa mezclándolo con mercurio.
18:01El tiempo que yo he cubierto de la operación de esta organización criminal operando,
18:06inclusive 400 personas han desaparecido de encontrar personas.
18:12Se han encontrado restos óseos calcinados de personas que han sido quemadas en fogatas de leña.
18:18Hay personas desaparecidas que nunca se los han volvido a ver porque sus cuerpos fueron arrojados a las pozas.
18:27En dos ocasiones han venido a mi cilio y me han golpeado acá dentro de mi cilio.
18:32Fue agredido con piedras, palos, machetes y tuve que ir al hospital.
18:41La mayor parte de mi vida la he pasado con mucho temor.
18:47Bueno, yo sigo haciendo mi trabajo porque no hay otra persona que lo haga.
18:56Claro, yo de niño vivía conectado con la naturaleza.
19:01Si se aprovecha con manejo sostenible, es lo más hermoso que hay.
19:12Solo en la zona de La Pampa se han deforestado cerca de 20.000 hectáreas.
19:28Bueno, esto no es solo un problema ambiental.
19:31La gente acá en la Amazonía está muriendo producto de la tracción del oro.
19:41La minería ha afectado todavía hasta ahora un 5% del territorio.
19:48Pero es un enorme cáncer que va a contaminar todo este territorio.
19:53La minería ha afectado mucho.
20:10I mean, so, so awesome, so captivating and so cinematic
20:13in the way that you presented.
20:15It felt like a noir film to begin with
20:17and you made a sit-down interview captivating,
20:19which is so hard to do.
20:21I really thought that was incredible.
20:23It was really awesome.
20:25It's a very powerful film.
20:27I found it a tremendously affecting story.
20:30It's beautifully shot.
20:31Yeah.
20:31The whole thing is I found much more compelling
20:34than the first film with the lady's sexual problems,
20:37which to me fades into the distance.
20:40We've moved on, Bruce.
20:41We're in this film now.
20:42This film, too, it's only, what, three or four minutes long.
20:46It's very gripping.
20:47It presents the case extremely well.
20:49Yeah.
20:50And visually, really, it's quite beautiful.
20:53John, what were your thoughts?
20:54Jaden, and remember I gave...
20:56I was the only one who gave you top marks last week.
20:59So let's just get that out of the way.
21:01OK.
21:02I kind of, like, feel that...
21:04And, you know, like, last week it was, like, Sergeant Peppers
21:07and this week it was, like, a fairly OK Paul McCartney album
21:11from the 1980s, if that makes any sense.
21:14It opened so strongly about this guy and seeing death threats
21:17and us as the viewer were all thrown around a bit like that.
21:20And then, yeah, conveying too many facts
21:23and you've drifted away from the particular human story
21:28that only you can tell because you're actually there.
21:32I think it's really good feedback.
21:34It just seemed like there were too many questions
21:36for an issue people didn't know about.
21:38This is a pretty unique form of environmental destruction
21:41that I sort of thought I needed to explain it a little bit more.
21:46But, like, those environments and seeing the damage
21:48are found really powerful and just as captivating.
21:51We're hearing about this stuff that's going on
21:52and then we see the damage and, like, the effect of it all.
21:55Yes, he doesn't wander off the theme.
21:57I mean, the theme is quite consistent through the whole film.
22:00Yeah.
22:01And I think the variety of visuals, it all melds together,
22:06I think, very skilfully and very short film.
22:09He's a real filmmaker.
22:11Well, there you go, Jaden.
22:12How do you feel hearing that feedback?
22:13Look, I never thought I'd be in a position
22:15where an Oscar winner is saying that.
22:20Looking forward to seeing the next one.
22:22I do like how you're always ending up near the water
22:25because you're, like, a former marine biologist
22:26and it's, like, you know, like when there's Law and Order
22:29and they've got the special...
22:31There's different versions of it.
22:32I feel like you always discover the crime
22:34that's happening near the water
22:36rather than your, like, marine biologist fast,
22:39which, yeah, I think that's really cool.
22:43Well, time to travel to another part of the world.
22:46It's Michaela in South Korea,
22:48home of K-pop and the plastic surgery capital of the world.
22:52Michaela is with us, but the internet is not so great,
22:55so we're going to check in with her after the film.
22:58Let's see what Michaela came up with.
23:00Here is Sori, which translates to sound.
23:13What are you doing?
23:30What are you doing,ailing for certain things?
23:37What are you doing?
23:45It's just a bright, kind of scary thing.
23:50What are you doing?
23:51What are you doing here?
23:55You know, you're going to be doing a little bit of a春 film.
23:57I'm asking you to go with a pair of playing with a pair of music.
23:59With a pair of music.
23:59Big pair of music.
23:59I'm not so great when I'm talking about
23:59も學ing my book onto the other one.
24:00This is quite a big guy.
24:00The Boom Operator is a person who is recording at the stage.
24:06The Poly Artist is a character's feelings of the sound.
24:14I'm just wearing a dress.
24:17This is a female dress.
24:19I'm going to wear a high heel.
24:26This is a big one.
24:27It's a big one.
24:40The 5-gum between the 2-gum, which is the same,
24:47which is more real and more like the real ones,
24:50which is not the effect of the 3-gum.
25:14Oh, my God.
25:29It's cool
25:31It's cool
25:33It's cool
25:34I'm really excited
25:34I'm gonna mix it with a little bit
25:38I'll mix it together
25:39Yes, I'll mix it
25:45I'll mix it together
25:47Wow
25:48Oh, oh, oh.
26:18그런 소리가 필요할 때 다시 찾아서 찾거나 아니면 뭐 사오거나 하면 되는데
26:24이제 아니야 이거는 나중에 어디 쓸 게 있을 거야 하면서 계속 이제 물건을
26:36지금 즉흥적으로 제가 하는 건데
26:49쌓아놓고 찾고 그런 이제 물건에 대한 집착이 이제 네 좀 있습니다.
27:12Mikaela can hear you.
27:13The internet is not great, but even though she's frozen and looking very worried, she
27:18can hear everything you're saying.
27:20That's a very charming film.
27:22It's a great choice of subject.
27:24It's, I mean, this guy's a very personable presenter of it and I've never seen any demonstration
27:30of it before in a movie and I thought, I thought it was very well done and very entertaining.
27:36Yeah, I find the subject matter interesting as well.
27:39I just felt like I lost the momentum and the energy of it.
27:42It started so powerfully and it was moving really quickly that once it kept cutting back
27:48to the sit-down interviews, it felt like the momentum sort of paused or had a break.
27:52My favourite part of that documentary was her saying, show us horse galloping and throwing
27:56him off filter.
27:56It wasn't him sitting down just like relaying information.
27:59She's like, show us this.
28:00I want to see this.
28:00Show us your workspace and he's in there doing things and presenting things.
28:03There's an energy to that.
28:04It was just those moments outside that like stopped the momentum for me and like stopped
28:09the energy.
28:10I think the director was interested in it.
28:14Where did you find this introvert?
28:19This is what it's all about.
28:24I think she wanted to let us see the boy's commitment to what he was doing.
28:29You know, you can't really go through them all and say you should have done this and you
28:33should have done that.
28:34Yeah, Danny.
28:36I thought she did a very good job.
28:38Yeah, I think the cool thing, Michaela, is it's going to take so little to make your
28:43films twice as good.
28:45It's really cool you can't talk back to me.
28:47So I can just, I just wish the rest of the world was like this.
28:50Okay, from now on in, I talk and everyone just, I'm assuming you're frozen, but I'm
28:55assuming you're nodding in agreement with everything I say.
28:58So, Michaela, thanks for nodding in agreement.
29:00And if I may continue, I reckon just a little context about why you're telling this story
29:05in South Korea just would have changed everything.
29:09And this is totally lame.
29:11I'm almost embarrassed to read it out because it's so corny.
29:13But like, imagine, you know, if you had, in a country racing towards AI and automation,
29:19meet the foley artist who proves something still needs human hands.
29:23Like, imagine that, but your voice and not totally cringeworthy.
29:28Michaela, I'm sure somewhere out there you're nodding and shaking your head, as John said,
29:32in agreement or disagreement, but that was pretty powerful feedback.
29:35So congratulations.
29:40Ten days ago, Kate left one of the world's most crowded places and landed in one of the
29:46least.
29:47Yep, she took the rarely travelled India to Greenland pipeline.
29:51Kate, did last week's feedback about your film rattle around your head in this past week?
29:57No, not at all.
29:59It's rock solid up, up in here.
30:03No, just, just kidding.
30:05I, I wanted to end it all.
30:08Uh, but I've just got to keep soldiering on.
30:11What did you take on from what you heard last week?
30:14I mean, anything that Mr. John Safran tells me.
30:18So I took on board what he said about slowing down.
30:22I always want to know about food in these far northern places.
30:25I mean, you're in a very cold part of the world.
30:29Oh, I ate some whale.
30:31I ate two different kinds of whale.
30:33And what's really funny is that they have it with chicken salt, which is an Australian
30:39invention.
30:40So Greenland, Australia, united on chicken salt, which is pretty amazing.
30:45And it tasted really good.
30:49Well, I don't really know how to segue from whale with chicken salt.
30:52So let's check out Kate's film for this week.
30:55Here is A Universal King.
30:58I am king of this world.
31:00No one can ever beat me.
31:02I'm on top of this hill, king of the hill.
31:05No one else.
31:07Me.
31:08No one shall ever, ever beat me.
31:12I shall be the one and only king of this world.
31:15Even a universal king is me.
31:20I have all the power in the universe.
31:24I am king of this arena.
31:27I have almost beaten everyone.
31:30And if you try to fight me, you're done.
31:33I can just flick you and you're dead.
31:37Hmm.
31:38So strong.
31:39I can climb up.
31:45That's probably the slowest one ever, but speed doesn't matter.
31:59Anyways, I'm king of this battleground.
32:03You can't beat me.
32:05Let's just say that.
32:12I'm, I'm what has this been?
32:14King of the rock.
32:17Kind of not-so-sturdy rock, but giant hill.
32:22It's me.
32:24Like I see a hill gloom in Peterson.
32:27And this is all mine.
32:30When it is, I will find you in that lens.
32:35And destroy you and your entire country.
32:45You will perish.
32:55Are you okay?
32:57Yeah, I'm okay.
32:59I just, look.
33:01Okay.
33:01That could have ended a lot worse.
33:06This is my last hill before I go.
33:10So hopefully, hopefully my, my little brother shall take the throne.
33:19Before I go, I'm going to say this.
33:23You are perished.
33:29I'm sorry.
33:32Yeah, in the middle of the other day, we're gonna have to go.
33:35Why?
33:37Did you do that in the middle of the night?
33:39No.
33:39So, did you do that in the middle of the night?
33:42No.
33:42So, did you make a baby?
33:46No.
33:47Oh, yeah.
33:48I'm going to go.
33:56Okay, I'm going to go.
33:59Go on.
34:02This is the end of our eclipse, I hope you liked it and hopefully it wasn't too dramatic
34:09but hopefully you liked our small eclipse and you're not going to perish through those
34:17lends. Goodbye.
34:59Just so fantastic and yeah like something I could never do. I was just like soaking it in you know
35:07like just I was listening to some jazz that I you know I don't I don't know about jazz and
35:13I I can just it just can wash over me and it was so good.
35:17Like when it cuts to the bedroom after after they're spending all this slow time on this really you know
35:23bright overblown landscape it's just so brilliant yeah again I don't know why but it's just it's just so brilliant
35:31and then perfect to show the parents at the end to show you didn't just like abduct the child and
35:39you got the full consent of the parents.
35:42Yeah super charming and super authentic as well like I really and and those incredible wide shots of the landscape
35:50and the environment like you're taking in so much different stuff and he was really it was hilarious like him
35:54interacting with his brother it felt really like a real snapshot into a whole different life and yeah I thought
36:00it was really yeah I love that it was really incredible.
36:02I agree there's some nice shots there but I didn't think it added up to anything much as a little
36:08boy in the cold.
36:10I mean this is better than the the people in Jamaica but only marginally I mean the shots are quite
36:20nice and attractive looking little boy but um so what?
36:26It was it was it was a snapshot into a whole other way of well it's just a kid standing
36:31in a in an ice field yeah look where he grew up and and his personality and like the way
36:35that he's.
36:36Well you could film where I grew up in a bit of a dump it wasn't icy but if you
36:40just saw shots of me standing around Turn Gabby you wouldn't think much of us.
36:45Why are you getting so carried away?
36:48It was about the relationship between him and the brother.
36:50Like I don't know it was it was an awesome snapshot for me.
36:53Bruce you didn't like the film.
36:55Do you have any feedback for Kate?
36:57Oh well listen I don't want to be nasty.
36:59Go on mate lay it on me.
37:03Some a bit more characterisation perhaps a relationship with the parents or the two I found the two boys playing
37:10on the bed too to be a bit of a yawn.
37:12That could have that could have been in Turn Gabby that bit.
37:17And if you were going to make it to just about one person to find out something more interesting than
37:23just him standing there saying I'm cold now I'm on a rock.
37:28Kate you're getting some brutal feedback from Bruce Beresford right now.
37:31You do have two people who are very much in your corner.
37:34How are you taking all of this on?
37:36Oh I think I think I mean it's yeah amazing to hear the positive feedback and I reckon I'd like
37:43to see you as a kid in Turn Gabby.
37:45I think that would be pretty interesting Bruce Brucey.
37:50Well Kate thank you for going somewhere very very cold and bringing us back something so beautifully warm.
37:56Cheers thank you.
38:00To South Africa now where Elliot is sitting at the top of last week's leaderboard and very much hoping to
38:07stay there.
38:08Elliot do you think this film could keep you on the top of the leaderboard?
38:11Potentially I guess I'll let you decide on that one but after seeing all those films I'm less confident.
38:17We saw that you broke your camera as well.
38:19How do you get your film finished when you've busted your camera?
38:22Yeah that was a nightmare. I was filming a zebra and a bush like came out of nowhere and ripped
38:28the camera out of my hand and it was like slow motion in the air and then smashed everywhere and
38:32I was in the middle of nowhere.
38:34It took me hours to find someone who knew someone who knew someone who had a camera.
38:39Yeah it was stressful but I found a camera in this bloke who owned a snake farm.
38:45Like literally there were snakes everywhere it was wild.
38:47Well let's find out what happens when your camera breaks mid-shoot. Here is Guardians of the Wild.
39:06These guys are with us to provide security because you never know what you're going to find ahead of you.
39:14We're going to do a short session of trekking with our dogs.
39:18We've got two guys who have gone in a bush laying a trap.
39:22You have to train that dog with their scent.
39:26The guys who have gone for almost 20 minutes now we're going to get our dogs ready so that we
39:30can start following them.
39:34Sook.
39:37Sook.
39:38Good girl. Sook.
40:02That's a good girl.
40:05Good girl.
40:06Yes.
40:10We found the poachers now.
40:13We found our two poachers.
40:15This is a very good session with our dog.
40:18From start to the end she didn't lost any way.
40:21She was on point.
40:23So thanks to her.
40:26Project Rhino is an organisation that protects critically endangered rhinos.
40:30This canine unit is just one of the initiatives in their ongoing fight to protect wildlife in South Africa and
40:36they're not just on the ground.
40:39We're just basically an eye in the sky and helping survey almost one million hectares of land.
40:45So when they're running around with the dogs, I'll be above.
40:48We've got the second meat poaching incident of today.
40:52Chop off the head of the animal and poach the skin or the meat.
40:58There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that people don't actually know about.
41:05Main focus is rhinos.
41:09But we do everything from culture poisoning, illegal gill net fishing, my whole array of stuff, even stealing off indigenous
41:16plants.
41:17We're here right now monitoring seven rhinos, two in particular that are of concern.
41:23They need to beat the horn.
41:24It's an ongoing fight.
41:26You know, they don't rest, which means we don't rest.
41:28From Project Rhino, I think funding is a huge thing because we offer the services for absolutely free.
41:33No one pays our consent.
41:35From a financial perspective, funding is a huge thing.
42:04We're just positioning to be in a closer spot so that we can get to that animal as soon as
42:10it goes down.
42:38Obviously now, Mona's off so she'll be a bit less of a target.
42:43That's the reason we do it now, basically.
43:02I know I'm not very bright, but I'm not entirely clear what's going on.
43:08I think they're rescuing rhinos, aren't they?
43:10Helping rhinos?
43:11Yeah, but why did they take the horn off?
43:13I have an idea.
43:14Let's ask the filmmaker.
43:15Yes.
43:15Why do they cut the horn off the rhino?
43:19Because rhino horn is like $8,000 American dollars per like 100 grams.
43:23So they're being poached to extinction.
43:25They're critically endangered.
43:27So basically they tranquilize rhinos, cut off the horn, so they're not poached.
43:31That was what I guessed.
43:33But it never said that.
43:34I think it's a bit short on information, the film.
43:38I think that there were so many shots and it was all happening so quickly.
43:43And there were so many different people talking that it was hard to grab one narrative through line, I guess.
43:48Yes, no, you're right.
43:49You're right.
43:50I'm agreeing with you this time.
43:52And there were so many really powerful shots, like attaching that camera to the back of the helicopter, them sawing
43:59off the rhino thing.
44:00That could have all been, you know, slowed down a little bit to let some of those images really, really
44:04sink in.
44:05Well, you're basically saying the same thing I said, but a bit more extravagantly.
44:09Yeah, I'm very extravagantly.
44:11John, what did you think of the film?
44:13So Elliot, like obviously you just, so much sweat went into that, so you must be commended on that.
44:21But I would have preferred if you just had chosen one little story and then made that the whole three
44:28and a half minutes.
44:29Was there a reason you put so much into it?
44:31Yeah, I mean, I think the issue is, is I flew into Cape Town, so I kind of lost a
44:35couple of days mucking around here on the access.
44:37And then I went up north, hinging on this rhino dehorning scene, which happened to happen at the day before.
44:45And I felt like it would be a disservice to not use that.
44:48And so I was kind of limited in the edit.
44:51Elliot, all the things you're describing are exactly what the other five races are facing.
44:56Having to land in a new country, find a story.
44:59If that doesn't work, pivot to another story.
45:01And are you going to change your approach for the next film and think about how you can manage your
45:05time to find and edit the story and deliver it in that 10 days?
45:10No, we're all up against the same challenges.
45:12And I don't know, I probably, I wouldn't change anything.
45:16You know, it was an incredible experience.
45:17But yeah, it was convoluted and a little bit mad, like my mind sometimes.
45:21So we'll see what happens next week.
45:23Yeah, we will see what happens next week.
45:30Five films, five countries, a torrent of opinions from our judging panel.
45:35And it's time for the last stop on tonight's itinerary.
45:39William, you went from exotic Cairo to Wales.
45:42Did you get whiplash?
45:45Hello, everyone.
45:46I think I said that right.
45:49Yeah, look, certainly calmer.
45:51I found it a bit easier to have a sleep in Cardiff rather than Cairo.
45:56The morning prayers didn't help me in Cairo and here it was a bit quieter.
46:00So, yeah.
46:01You've copped some harsh critiques from the judges last week.
46:05Are you the type of person to take that feedback on or do you stick to your guns as a
46:10filmmaker?
46:11Yeah, look, I'm not sure if it's sort of exclusionary one or the other.
46:16When Margaret Pomerant speaks, you listen.
46:19I love it.
46:20Well, last week's feedback is about to be tested.
46:23Here is The Rock of the Night.
46:27The Rock of the Night.
46:42Good morning.
46:44Good morning.
46:56Good morning, and welcome to Cragenor's castle, the most haunted castle in Wales.
47:05There's a lot of spirits here.
47:08So many people come here and say about something they've seen or felt.
47:19You know, this building, there is a feel, a feeling now and again in the bar of somebody else being
47:25there when I've been by myself.
47:29The historian saw a lady in black on his bed, eventually got off the bed, turned left, and walked through
47:36the wall behind the bed.
47:42Two little girls tend to appear quite frequently down here, moving objects, making things splash, etc.
48:04Here we are, under the stage.
48:06This is a favourite area of the paranormal investigators that come down here.
48:11Apparently there is a lot of movement.
48:13Movement.
48:23May we ask for the spirits to step forward towards us, please.
48:46There was a first place on the original building.
48:50We didn't become Cragenors until Adelina Passi arrived in 1878.
48:54There was a rumour that Adelina Passi's third husband had perhaps helped on her way a bit in the fall
49:01down the stairs.
49:04Rumours are that she was pushed down the stairs.
49:06She basically broke her hip and died from pneumonia.
49:35She was pushed down the stairs.
49:39She was pushed down the stairs.
49:39There was a huge amount of possibility, of course, and there's various packages which range from very basic ones.
49:44They're all tailored to suit every person's individual requirements.
49:49We do anything from a dry hair, so straight through to fall-day packages, weekend-exclusive packages.
49:58Each wedding has a castle exclusive.
50:00It's quite a romantic concept to get married in a castle.
50:03so we are quite popular for weddings.
50:05We do about 100 a year.
50:08We've never heard that there's a curse
50:10on any of the weddings that have been here.
50:12Isn't getting married a curse?
50:14It was for me.
50:19APPLAUSE
50:26I mean, I appreciate the aesthetic of it,
50:29but it felt too...
50:31It felt too safe.
50:33To me, there was no teeth in it.
50:35It felt a little bit corporate to me,
50:37like we're hearing about the business
50:38and, like, it was all about the aesthetic
50:41and then the joke and the aesthetic
50:42that they also do weddings there.
50:43It just felt like a...
50:45I appreciate your commitment to that style of filmmaking.
50:49Like, even, like, you affected the audio the same way,
50:52so I had that old film fill,
50:53the titles of the old film fill.
50:55But the subject matter,
50:57it didn't feel like an authentic filmmaker
50:58expressing something that they're genuinely interested in.
51:01Well, we only had a few...
51:03But it's still...
51:04They all had a little bit of time.
51:05Oh, shut up.
51:06But it's quite witty.
51:08The titles are quite witty.
51:10The music was very cleverly used.
51:12It's meant to be comic, isn't it?
51:14It's a send-up of all those terrible TV programs
51:17where they're in haunted houses
51:19and nothing ever happens, of course,
51:20because there aren't any ghosts.
51:22So they've got nowhere to go.
51:24So he's sending the whole thing up.
51:26But it's quite funny.
51:27And what did you take away from him as an artist?
51:31Not a lot.
51:32But there's a lot more in this than in the previous one
51:36where the boy's just standing in an icy field.
51:38No, I disagree.
51:39I disagree.
51:40No, no, no, no, no, no.
51:41Oh, the first boom!
51:43The first boom!
51:44The first boom, Bruce!
51:45The first boom!
51:48I felt her passion.
51:49The boy standing in the icy field,
51:51you thought that was enough.
51:52Hear about how she felt.
51:54She had such a genuine connection with those subjects.
51:56This filmmaker didn't feel as connected to this thing.
52:00It felt really safe.
52:01It felt really overproduced in telling a story
52:03that should be more personal to him.
52:06Yeah, totally.
52:07I think this is like the second week
52:09where what you've decided to go on has been quite slight.
52:13You know, like last week it was,
52:15oh, there's a guy who sells jeans.
52:17And then this one seems like you landed
52:19and you found the tourist attraction that's a castle.
52:22Yeah.
52:23I think you have to break into more of a sweat
52:25before you kind of go, this is the idea.
52:28Yeah, have more teeth, be more bold.
52:30Like, tell us stories.
52:31Drop them to this country that you and we know nothing about.
52:34Show us something that shocks us or stuns us
52:36that you're really, really connected with.
52:39William, how are you taking all of that on?
52:41That's some real talk.
52:43Honestly, what you're saying about being raw and vulnerable
52:46and stuff, Danny, I really get.
52:47It's the kind of thing that I, if I'm honest,
52:50find difficult in four minutes.
52:53So maybe the challenge is to figure out
52:54how to do that in four minutes.
52:56I think, I know for a fact you can do better.
52:57I know.
53:03Six wildly different films, all worlds apart.
53:06As for scoring them, that's the judges' problem.
53:09Thoughts and prayers, this is not going to be easy.
53:12Filmmakers, it's the moment of truth.
53:14And Michaela, it's great to have you back with us for this part.
53:17All right, judges, you must pick your top two films.
53:20Two points for your favourite film,
53:22one point for the runner-up.
53:24Bruce, what are your top two films?
53:27My first choice is Jaden for his film in Peru.
53:34And my second choice is for Michaela in South Korea.
53:41Danny, your top three films.
53:42My two points I'm going to give to Jaden for River of Gold.
53:46It felt like really, really powerful filmmaking.
53:49And I think my one point for runner-up is going to go to Kate.
53:53OK.
53:55Which is Kate?
53:56The kid on the ice block.
53:57You loved him.
54:00The kid on the ice block.
54:01The kid on the ice block.
54:02I'm very excited to see what she does next.
54:04John?
54:05My two points is going to Kate.
54:09And my one point is going to go to Lucinda
54:13for her film in Jamaica.
54:16OK, we've got some new players on the board.
54:19Let's check this week's scores.
54:27Well, this week's big winners are Jaden on four points.
54:32A close second is Kate on three points.
54:36And Lucinda and Michaela on one point.
54:42Kate, your film was received beautifully tonight.
54:46How do you feel making it onto the leaderboard?
54:48Oh, yeah, it feels pretty good.
54:52But maybe getting some negative feedback also is good too
54:56because it sets a fire under your arse.
54:59So I'm trying not to get too big-headed about it.
55:03And Lucinda, you're on the scoreboard now with one point.
55:06How are you feeling in Jamaica?
55:08Jamaica, I'm feeling great.
55:10We're back.
55:11Bruce, I'll still watch your movies, even if you hate me.
55:15You just didn't like the film.
55:17Don't like the pum pum.
55:20All right, here is the big moment.
55:23Let's see who is leading the race so far.
55:28OK.
55:29Overall at the top, it's Jaden.
55:31He is the one to beat.
55:33Jaden, you're out front.
55:34Are you feeling confident?
55:36Are you feeling terrified?
55:37What's going through your mind right now?
55:38Look, I'm feeling good that I've been able to make two films
55:41that I'm pretty happy with.
55:43But it's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.
55:45And I think I've been pretty blessed with two countries
55:47that I feel pretty comfortable in early up.
55:50So I'm waiting for a few spanners to be thrown in there.
55:53There's a lot of films still to be made.
55:55Well, the world doesn't stop spinning and neither does this show.
55:58I reckon it's time to find out where we're heading next.
56:05Are you ready, guys?
56:06Yep.
56:07Yeah.
56:20Lucinda, Sweden, you look overjoyed.
56:22Ikea?
56:25Will you get lost in an Ikea?
56:27Is that the first thing that's popped into your mind?
56:29I have ideas.
56:30I have ideas.
56:31Morocco, your face lit up, Michaela.
56:34Michaela in Morocco, it's got a nice ring to it.
56:36I'm so stoked.
56:37I've been wanting to go to Morocco for so, so long.
56:40And I've actually just been surfing in Korea at the wave park.
56:44But Morocco's got real waves, so I cannot wait.
56:47Hopefully I can get a film quick enough that I can do that.
56:51Elliot, I think you're with us.
56:52You're frozen, so you're either absolutely shocked
56:55or delighted that you're heading to California.
56:59What are the ideas that are popping into your filmmaker brain?
57:02Yeah, like, a lot.
57:03I'm going to sleep pretty much for the next two days on my way there
57:06and I'll hit the ground running.
57:07You can sleep on the plane.
57:09You've got a big ten days ahead of you.
57:11That's enough from us because your ten days starts now.
57:15Just kidding.
57:16It's already started.
57:18Off you go.
57:21Big thanks to our incredible judges,
57:24Bruce Berenson, Danny Philippou and John Safran.
57:29I'll see you next week.