Mother Funkers go Outback for the first episode of Streets of Your Town - The Outback Project!

From the wandering journo at Stories That Matter Studios, I'm Nance Haxton, and this is Streets of Your Town.

The podcast that takes you on an audio journey, highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.

Buckle up to meet a great array of ordinary, everyday,

incredible Australians.

And now to the first episode of the special Streets of Your Town series, The Outback Project.

Fittingly, I'm recording this intro at the beautiful outback town of Barkalden.

Hopefully you can hear those sounds of birds, outback winds and road train trucks in the background as I gather everything into Mildred, the cantankerous combi for today's travels.

But firstly, for this launch episode, we head back to where the journey began for an Outback interview from Brisbane.

Remote Outback Queensland is providing the perfect backdrop to a hilarious character-driven mockumentary following four female cabaret performers as they risk everything for their big break.

Motherfunkers Go Outback evolved out of the real-life adventures of comedian Jenny Winter and her Funny Mummies tours through regional towns.

Director Katrina Channels brought the story arc when she envisioned the storyline of a desperate performer being scammed by her charismatic manager.

From there, as they learnt on the road, anything can happen.

Let's get straight into Jenny and Katrina's fantastic chat with us on Streets of Your Town, talking about how sometimes the best ideas can evolve organically from friendship.

and even the tiniest of tiny budgets can't stop them.

And as you'll hear in this interview, they're taking the trailer for their dream mockumentary to Winton for the Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival, just a casual 15-hour drive from Brisbane to raise support for the next stage of production.