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This week on Movietime's Summer series we look back at one of the big events for Australian cinema in 2012, The Sapphires. Adapted by Tony Briggs from his own hit musical, it's a film about four young Aboriginal women (Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell) who form a soul group under the guidance of an unlikely Irish impresario (Chris O'Dowd) to tour Vietnam and entertain the troops. The story was inspired by the experiences of Briggs' mother and aunties who toured Victoria in a similar group, and in the case of his mother and one aunt, also travelled to Vietnam as entertainers. In this panel hosted by Jason Di Rosso and recorded at the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival, we’ll hear from Tony Briggs, his mother Lauren Robinson, his aunt Lois Peeler, director Wayne Blair and producers Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne.

This week on Movietime's Summer series we follow up our discussion with film scholar Mark Cousins, writer and director of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, and take up the question of alternative approaches to understanding film history -- or maybe histories. In particular, that vexed question of The Canon. Is it necessary, or even inevitable? Julie Rigg is joined by Paul Harris, host of Triple R's Film Buff's Forecast and Deb Verhoeven, Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University, to tease out these issues in a forum recorded at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in October 2012.

This week we’re talking blockbuster adaptations. Ang Lee discusses bringing the ‘unfilmable’ Life of Pi to the screen, plus we review two Boxing Day films with strong antipodean links: Les Miserables, starring Hugh Jackman and Russel Crowe, and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey.