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Documentary director Pietra Brettkelly drops in (choosing bFM over The Oscars™, hah) to talk about her new feature, Yellow Is Forbidden, the story of fashion designer Guo Pei and her rise from Cultural Revolution China to independent Haute Couture threat. Penelope Noir, 95bFM's resident Fashun expert, reviews Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, a documentary on the notorious titular Ms. Vivienne that once had the Westwood family's co-operation... but now, upon release, does not. What went wrong?

Director Paul Oremland talks to us about his new documentary, 100 Men, which looks at 40 years of gay history via the lens of (and honest interviews with) Oremland’s list of past lovers. As people, societal norms, and countries age, how does that affect identity, community and freedom? Penelope Noir also joins us in the studio to review a doco that contains her specialist subject: feshun. Not just for couture hounds, the story of fashion designer Zac Posen is a classically American rise-fall-rise tale as told by Sandy Chronopoulos in her new documentary, House of Z.

Director Julian Boshier gives the lowdown on his sensational new Head Like A Hole documentary, Swagger of Thieves. A mere ten years in the making, spanning twenty years of footage (converted to twelve terabytes of media), and hours of edit room ciggies, Julian's doco has its world premiere at the Mighty Civic this August 3rd. Our very own News and Editorial Director, Ximena Smith, also joins the melee to guide us through the contradictions and questions inherent within the new Laura Poitras documentary on Julian Assange, Risk. In the world of freedom of information activism, is the message always more important than its troubling messenger? Or is context _always_ key?