Richard Wolstencroft & Dr Chris Neil on The Damien Richardson Show - 04 May 2023

On today's show we discuss US writers strike over streaming services and payments, and the lifting of the ban on prescribing Ivermectin.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Richard Wolstencroft is an Australian filmmaker and director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Wolstencroft's film career began in 1992, with the premier of his directorial debut, the vampire film Bloodlust, which he co-directed with Jon Hewitt In 1999, Wolstencroft released his second feature film Pearls Before Swine. The rejection of that film by Melbourne International Film Festival prompted Wolstencroft to start the Melbourne Underground Film Festival as an outlet "dedicated to alternative, exploitation, genre and political cinema" in 2000. Wolstencroft directed and released three other feature-length projects, The Beautiful and Damned in 2008, The Second Coming in 2015, and The Second Coming: Volume 2 in 2016. Wolstencroft continues to serve as director of the MUFF.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Chris Neil is President of the Australian Medical Professionals' Society. He has practised medicine for 20 years, specialising in cardiology for the past 13. Since obtaining his PhD he has been involved in clinical research in a tertiary hospital context, including supervising multiple higher degree students.