Editing

Matthew Walker

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Editing

Credits

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Matthew Walker is an Australian director and long time editor with more than 20 years’ experience in documentary storytelling. His debut feature, I’m Wanita, premiered at Hot Docs 2021 and went on to win the Sydney Film Fes:val Award for Best Australian Documentary, the Raindance Award for Best Music Documentary, and the AIDC Award for Best Feature Documentary. He recently directed the YouTube documentary series Cooking for Seamus, a character-driven portrait of a disabled bull with a devoted online following. Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story marks his second music-driven feature documentary.

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Behind the camera

Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story poster
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Live It Up is a feature documentary celebrating Mental as Anything, the art-school band whose irreverent humour, visual art and clever pop songs made them one of Australia's most distinctive cultural forces. Following the release of Nips Are Getting Bigger in 1979, the Mentals rose quickly from inner-city Sydney pubs to national fame, becoming masters at capturing Australian suburban life with warmth, wit and playfulness. While success came fast, they never treated it with reverence. Funny, warm and unexpectedly moving, Live It Up explores how Mental as Anything navigated fame, longevity and the pressures of the music industry while holding fast to their humour and creative spirit - revealing why their music continues to resonate today.

Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story

2026

Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story poster
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Live It Up is a feature documentary celebrating Mental as Anything, the art-school band whose irreverent humour, visual art and clever pop songs made them one of Australia's most distinctive cultural forces. Following the release of Nips Are Getting Bigger in 1979, the Mentals rose quickly from inner-city Sydney pubs to national fame, becoming masters at capturing Australian suburban life with warmth, wit and playfulness. While success came fast, they never treated it with reverence. Funny, warm and unexpectedly moving, Live It Up explores how Mental as Anything navigated fame, longevity and the pressures of the music industry while holding fast to their humour and creative spirit - revealing why their music continues to resonate today.

Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story

2026

I'm Wanita poster
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I'm Wanita is the story of a renegade country music singer from Tamworth, Australia, hell-bent on realizing her childhood dreams of stardom.

I'm Wanita

2022