{"id":810892,"date":"2026-07-19T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810892\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:08:12","slug":"race-around-the-world-recap-catch-the-week-seven-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810892\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Around the World recap: Catch the week seven films"},"content":{"rendered":"

The six filmmakers taking part in ABC iview’s Race Around The World<\/a> are in the seventh week of their global adventure.<\/p>\n

Only finding out their destination with a day’s notice, each filmmaker had just 10 days to find a story and produce a short film, to be judged by a panel of experts.<\/p>\n

But we also want your two cents. From Mexican wrestling to Indian slums, catch up on every week seven film<\/a>, choose your favourite, and find out where they’re headed next.<\/p>\n

Take part in our audience poll at the bottom of this page, or save the scroll and click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Race<\/a>Jayden in India<\/p>\n

Title: Two Days in Dharavi<\/p>\n

What’s it about? With the biggest slum in Asia in a bid for development, Kashif doesn’t want to see his home disappear.<\/p>\n

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Where is he headed next? Jersey<\/p>\n

Lucinda in France<\/p>\n

Title: LUCINDA IN PARIS<\/p>\n

What’s it about? Ever landed somewhere and felt an overwhelming desire to completely reinvent your personality? Paris does that to a girl.<\/p>\n

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Where is she headed next? Indonesia<\/p>\n

Mikaela in Germany<\/p>\n

Title: Bubbling<\/p>\n

What’s it about? Berlin is a city built on remembering. But as support for the far right reaches levels unseen in the post-war era, many of the people who make Berlin what it is are beginning to feel something shifting beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

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Where is she headed next? Argentina<\/p>\n

Kate in Mexico<\/p>\n

Title: A Family Man<\/p>\n

What’s it about? Paco became Chamuel, the luchador, at 13 years old. In the world of lucha libre, he is a villain.<\/p>\n

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Where is she headed next? Romania<\/p>\n

William in Maine, USA<\/p>\n

Title: Birds of a Feather<\/p>\n

What’s it about? From the back porch of their castle, King Ethan and Queen Ingrid survey the vast woodland of their avian kingdom.<\/p>\n

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Where is he headed next? Madagascar<\/p>\n

Elliot in Azerbaijan<\/p>\n

Title: For our Fathers<\/p>\n

What’s it about? In the aftermath of the recent conflict in Azerbaijan, thousands of children were left to grow up without their fathers. Among them are two 12-year-old girls who found each other through shared grief.<\/p>\n

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Where is he headed next? The Bahamas<\/p>\n

Pick your favourite<\/p>\n

We want to know your favourite film from this week’s line up.<\/p>\n

Tell us below by tapping once on your pick.<\/p>\n

The poll will close on Friday, July 24, at 4 pm.<\/p>\n

Get to know the contestants<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words: Artistic, poetic, magazine.<\/p>\n

My motto for Race Around the World is: Art is subjective. Not everyone is going to like your film, so as long as you make something that you’re proud of, it doesn’t really matter if people don’t like it.<\/p>\n

One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: Wired headphones. There’s too much travel to rely on a charged set of AirPods.<\/p>\n

My greatest fear while overseas is: Having luggage go overboard and get wet. With all our filming gear, water is really hard to recover from.<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words: Chaotic, introverted extrovert.<\/p>\n

My motto for Race Around the World is: I always liked this saying in Portuguese, “Viva como se fosse morrer amanh\u00e3”, which is like, live as if you will die tomorrow. I think you just need to enjoy every day.<\/p>\n

One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My glasses, but I’ll lose them. I’ve lost three pairs of glasses in the last month.<\/p>\n

My greatest fear while overseas is: Something happening to people that I love while I’m away.<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words: Easy-going, lively, passionate.<\/p>\n

My motto for Race Around the World is: I think this one’s actually plagiarised from the big man David Attenborough, but if people don’t care about something, they won’t protect it, and people won’t care about something they can’t see.<\/p>\n

One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My long lens. It’s a really long, stupidly heavy, big thing that no one in their right mind would want to carry when you’re running around to 10 different countries.<\/p>\n

My greatest fear while overseas is: Getting to day nine and a story having completely fallen through, or if I shot a full story with someone, and then I’m ready to submit it, and for whatever reason, the person in the story pulls the pin.<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words: Bubbly, curious, unconventional.<\/p>\n

My motto for Race Around the World is: YOLO [you only live once].<\/p>\n

One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: A necklace that means a lot to me, that’s my talisman.<\/p>\n

My greatest fear while overseas is: The logistics. I dread not getting sleep.<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words: Curious, Wollongong, humorist<\/p>\n

My motto for Race Around the World is: Water off a duck’s back.<\/p>\n

One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My nan’s ring, that would be my lucky charm.<\/p>\n

My greatest fear while overseas is: A misunderstanding would be really dreadful. Being Australian, I feel like we have a very good sense of humour, but it can also be a little bit different. You don’t want people to think you’re making fun of them, but that’s sometimes how that can be interpreted.<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words: Content, introspective, disorganised<\/p>\n

My motto for Race Around the World is: Have fun.<\/p>\n

One item that’s making the suitcase no matter what: My Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n

My greatest fear while overseas is: My reputation for being a machine learning engineer getting tarnished by the fact that, I don’t know, maybe I say something about not wanting to do it when really, I love my job.<\/p>\n

Stream Race Around The World on ABC iview, or watch Sundays at 7:30 pm on ABC TV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The six filmmakers taking part in ABC iview’s Race Around The World are in the seventh week of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,1691,349497,134,1689,291673,349499,349501,349500,349502,344,154163,3792,385935,360720,349498,274831],"class_list":["post-810892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-documentary","tag-elliot-constable","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-filmmakers","tag-jayden-oneill","tag-kate-mcguinness","tag-lucinda-price","tag-mikaela-zuiderduyn","tag-movies","tag-race-around-the-world","tag-travel","tag-week-seven","tag-weekly-wrap","tag-william-he","tag-world-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}