He Won a Show That Drops Filmmakers in 10 Countries With No Plan | Ep 21 w/ Elliot Constable

Elliot Constable just won ABC's Race Around the World — the rebooted format that drops six filmmakers into ten countries and makes them research, shoot, edit and star in a film a week, completely solo.

We met Elliot on a Destination NSW shoot; here he walks us through the near-impossible logistics, the stories (Moldova, Svalbard's polar bears, a Brazilian favela homage to City of God), and the all-time production disaster — a thorn bush destroying his camera two days before a rhino de-horning shoot, and the snake farm 2.5 hours away that saved him.

Plus: the strange new pressure of having to be the personality, not just make the work; why the one thing he'd spend money on wasn't gear but someone to do his receipts; and the honest truth about online criticism.

Then Hot Takes — including the first live one in the show's history.

00:18 Our own overseas near-death stories

07:50 Winning Race Around the World

18:18 How the show actually works

31:30 Being the personality, not just the filmmaker30:30 The broken camera and the snake farm

1:01:45 Hot Takes (first-ever live one)

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