Mustafa Needs a Wife – a multicultural twist to webisode

The five projects which secured funding for Long Story Short initiative from the ABC and Screen Australia includes Mustafa Needs a Wife, which jumps off the page as a fragment of true blue multiculturalism.
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Image: the whole gang just makes it into the frame. 

The web has been a useful way for non-Anglo Australian performers to gain a profile – with Mychonnie and Natalie Tran, spectacularly so. But what happens when projects become much more complicated? 

In our phone hook up, producer Yingna Lu is in Cairns on a quick holiday, while writer/actor Mansoor Noor and director Steve Anthopolous are in separate homes in Sydney. 

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.