# Zooming with Shalom Almond

**Interview** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 20 December 2024  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/interview/zooming-with-shalom-almond/

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Markus Hamence is Zooming in The Jungle Room with South Australian Film-Maker Shalom Almond. With a brand new award-winning documentary our ‘Songs Inside’, Shalom and Markus chat it up, discussing the inspiration, the drive and what’s next…

A group of incarcerated women sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs as part of a music program in an Australian prison. The women – who come to the program low in confidence and self-worth – are quickly thrown into a world of creativity and blossoming self- determination. But the process also opens up deep scars around trauma and addiction, threatening a once-in-a-lifetime prison performance alongside the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

**[Visit the website for more!](https://www.songsinside.com.au/)**

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