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MIFF Blog
Sundance 2020 Report
February 27th 2020 |
Artistic Director Al Cossar reports from Park City, Utah's Sundance Film Festival.
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MIFF Talks: Disability and Cinema – Beyond Representation
February 25th 2020 |
Drawing from disability scholars, activists and filmmakers, this panel considers the various ways people with disabilities are marginalised both on-screen and behind the scenes, to discuss the way forward and to celebrate the accomplishments of trailblazers paving the way for future generations.
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MIFF Talks: Bruce Beresford In Conversation
January 9th 2020 |
Following the MIFF screening of the NFSA’s digital restoration of Bruce Beresford's 1991 Australian/Canadian co-production Black Robe, Bruce sits down for one-hour conversation about his extraordinary career.
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MIFF Talks: Peter Strickland In Conversation
December 3rd 2019 |
As one of MIFF 2019's Directors in Focus, Peter Strickland visited Melbourne to present his new film, In Fabric, as well as retrospective screenings of his previous films and screenings of classic films that have inspired him. During this special event, he discusses his career, his filmography and his own cinephilia.
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MIFF Talks: Australian Cities on Film (Melbourne Conversations)
October 21st 2019 |
Join filmmakers, critics and academics as they explore examples of how Australian cities are represented on film, and imagine what Australian cities on film might look like as our urban populations boom.
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MIFF Talks: The World Online
October 1st 2019 |
The internet has become central to our way of living and social networking is a global revolution. How has the online environment altered the way we behave, relate to each other and understand the world? How has popular culture attempted to reflect, understand and challenge the impact of the online world?
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MIFF Talks: Beyond Buoyancy, International Slavery and Our Seafood
September 5th 2019 |
This panel discussion – consisting of experts dedicated to exposing and preventing the human right abuses – continues the discussion Buoyancy begins, with a focus on providing information and strategies to call for transparency and traceability of seafood products in our supply chains.
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MIFF Talks: Telling Other People’s Stories
September 4th 2019 |
A panel of critics and filmmakers discuss if there are certain stories that cannot – or should not – be told, except by artists of a particular race, gender or lived experience.
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Waiting for The Waiting Room: Rolf de Heer on the Future of VR
August 21st 2019 |
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer speaks to 2019 MIFF Critics Campus participant Zach Karpinellison about his latest collaboration with directors Mark Eland and Molly Reynolds; the groundbreaking 3D VR experience The Waiting Room.
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Director in Focus: An Interview with Peter Strickland
August 19th 2019 |
2019 Melbourne International Film Festival guest Peter Strickland talked to Critics Campus participant Isabella Trimboli about his career in the context of the festival's Director in Focus retrospective.
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