Arts

Next month Madeleine Sami takes on the biggest acting role of her career to date in new Australian black comedy Deadloch. She tells Kathryn Ryan why it's taken her so long to get a lead role. Audio

Seventy-one local and international films are currently screening in cinemas as part of the Documentary Edge Film Festival. One of these movies is All Static & Noise from the United States and it's… Audio

The trailer for our latest homegrown creature feature, The Tank racked up more than a million views in its first week of release in the U.S. It marks a return to NZ and to directing here by Scott… Video, Audio

'It took me a long time to be proud of myself'. Iam Tongi has become the first Pacific person to win American Idol - and says there's no reason why others can't follow in his footsteps.

The… Video, Audio

Hundreds of people have today marked the death of a man well-known for juggling on the streets of Wellington.

Michael Wahrlich, affectionately known as Mike the Juggler, is one of five people known… Video, Audio

A massive art and lights festival is transforming Sydney from today. Over TWO million people are expected to visit the Light Walk experience - where one of the installations is by a group of New… Audio

In 2021 the famous New Zealand short story Coming Home in the Dark by Owen Marshall was carefully adapted for the big screen actor and director James Ashcroft. Audio

Melodownz joins So’omalo for a great chat about Music, his community and his appearance in NZ Hip Hop Stand Up Season 3 streaming now on rnz.co.nz/hiphop. So’omalo also tells us some other yarns but… Audio

Dan Slevin previews three titles from this year’s DocEdge festival, on the understanding that the full programme is so diverse this small selection can’t possibly be representative of the whole. Video

Rotuma is a tiny Pacific island - a Fijian protectorate - it's about 47 square kilometres in size with a resident population of around 15 hundred people. In a couple of weeks the Rotuman dance group… Audio

This week for Bookmarks we meet co-founder of Letterboxd, Matthew Buchanan. As well as running the online social networking service for movie buffs he's also a designer. He talks to Jesse about his… Audio

Award-winning Sydney-based artist and activist Emily Valentine uses art to advocate for her passion: decent public housing. She specialises in creating objects and wonderous animals using, or… Audio, Gallery

On today’s episode, Coast Arcade’s Bella chats with Evie about the bands new EP, So’omalo catches up with Tori from new fundraising group Tea Towel Takeover, and boss man Harry gives our dynamic duo a… Audio

You may know comedian Ed Amon from The Panel, podcasts, as a newspaper columnist The multi talented man about to make his 3rd appearance at the NZ International Comedy Festival Ed has partnered with… Audio