Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
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Follow the Melbourne International Film Festival Blog to read about the latest films, awards, interviews, reviews and more. MIFF is a not-for-profit organisation that has been continuously running since 1952, making it the leading film festival in Australia and one of the world's oldest film festivals, alongside Cannes and Berlin. Presenting a curated global program of innovative screen..
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
5d ago
We speak to MIFF’s new CEO, Damien Hodgkinson, about his love of film and his vision for Melbourne’s beloved celebration of cinema ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
3w ago
Programmer Kate Jinx reminisces about the movies, meetings and merriment of Berlinale 2024, including several films to keep an eye out for this year ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
3w ago
In the third instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Kristen S. Hé (2015 cohort), Keva York (2017 cohort) and Merryana Salem (2020 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
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We speak to writer/director John Harvey, whose film Katele (Mudskipper) won the VicScreen Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film, about submitting to MIFF, being part of a community and how festivals can foster creativity ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
6M ago
We speak to Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker recipient Annelise Hickey about taking the leap and submitting her film to MIFF as well as her experiences and learnings from the festival ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
7M ago
Critics Campus participant Christy Tan discusses Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 2001 feature, with particular focus on its subordination of narrative to the evocation of a certain place and time in its protagonist’s life ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
7M ago
Programmer Kate Jinx revisits the cinema, sun and Cynar spritzes of Venice, including highlights from its eponymous film festival’s 80th edition – along with a pit stop at London’s Open City Documentary Festival ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
8M ago
Critics Campus participant Charles Carrall speaks to director Sue Brooks about the making of her 2003 feature Japanese Story, shooting the film in the Pilbara and Toni Collette wearing pants ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
8M ago
Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui speaks to director Robert Connolly about his newly remastered debut feature, 2001 Australian economic thriller The Bank ..read more
Melbourne International Film Festival Blog
8M ago
Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age body horror Tiger Stripes gets the critical treatment from four of our Critics Campus participants: Christy Tan, Kevin Bui, Đăng Tùng Bach and Erika Lay ..read more