Émile Laurent records honest conversations with the people building a life in Australia — on foot, on camera, away from studio lights and rehearsed lines.
English, German or French — Émile conducts the conversation in whichever language puts you at ease.
“I don’t take interviews. I go for a walk, and we talk. You’re the story.
Émile spent his twenties chasing quotes for Paris newsrooms, sitting across desks from people who answered like they were being tested. Eight years ago he moved to Sydney and started walking instead. No desk, no lights, no script — just streets, a camera, and the kind of conversation that happens when nobody's watching the clock.
Every walk is shaped around what you actually want to say — here's where most conversations start.
Émile asks the questions, you answer, recorded on the move. The move to Australia, a career rebuilt from scratch, the culture shocks nobody warns you about, the everyday details that never make it into official guides.
No set questions. You simply walk with Émile, and he tells you about the country — its cities, its history, its people. The story finds itself somewhere along the way.
You bring the theme. Émile helps structure the conversation and shoots it with a documentary eye, so it plays like a short film rather than a talking-head clip.
Émile is based between Sydney and Melbourne, and travels regularly for the right story. If your city isn't listed, ask — most things are arrangeable.
Before Australia, Émile was a journalist in Paris — deadlines, desks, and interviews that rarely felt like conversations. He arrived in Sydney eight years ago, worked as a walking-tour guide, then started a podcast about what it's actually like to build a life here. Along the way he's filmed for tourism brands and sat with migrants, expats and locals from all over the country.
Walk2talk is what happened when he stopped separating the guiding from the interviewing.
Read the full storyThat's deliberate. This site carries a small handful of drawings, total, across every page — the rest is left for the finished films. A walk doesn't translate well into a thumbnail grid, and honestly, it's better seen live: on a screen once the piece is cut together, or in person, on the walk itself.
Long-form conversation footage, cut to fit YouTube or your own channel.
On-the-ground segments about life in Australia, shot and structured like a real piece of journalism.
Place-led films that sell a city through a real conversation rather than a voiceover.
A personal record of your own move — the version you'll actually want to rewatch in ten years.
306,000
people added to Australia's population through overseas migration in the year to June 2025, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
That figure covers students, skilled workers, partners and families — each of them arriving with a reason, a plan, and usually a story nobody's asked them to tell properly yet. Walk2talk exists to slow that down: fewer headlines, more of what actually happened on the ground.
See Australia in numbersTell Émile a little about your idea, and he'll suggest a format, a city and a time to go for a walk.