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MIFF Blog
MIFF Docos To Watch From Home
May 19th 2020 |
Five of the best MIFF-featured documentaries you can stream online from Programmer Kate Fitzpatrick.
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MIFF Shorts to Watch from Home
April 30th 2020 |
MIFF Programmer Mia Falstein-Rush recommends past MIFF shorts you can stream now for free.
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In My Blood It Runs: An Interview with Maya Newell
August 17th 2019 |
Filmmaker Maya Newell talks to 2019 MIFF Critics Campus participant Claire Cao about her latest documentary, In My Blood It Runs.
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The Art of the Documentary: An Interview with Pietra Brettkelly
August 16th 2018 |
2018 Critics Campus participant Valerie Ng spoke to Yellow is Forbidden director Pietra Brettkelly about her artistic process, and the responsibility of being a documentary filmmaker.
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Like How I Pictured It: Fangirls and the Enduring Power of the Boyband
August 9th 2018 |
From the sweaty front row of the MIFF2018 Critics Campus, participant Ivana Brehas writes about Jessica Leski’s I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story
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Q&A with UNDERMINED: TALES FROM THE KIMBERLEY Director Nicholas Wrathall
July 27th 2018 |
Director of the MIFF Premiere Fund-supported UNDERMINED: TALES FROM THE KIMBERLEY speaks about the unique challenges of making a film in the remote Kimberley region, and the international relevance of the tensions between first peoples and developers.
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Q&A with The Eulogy director Janine Hosking
July 13th 2018 |
The director of the MIFF Premiere Fund supported documentary The Eulogy spoke to us about how she became interested in the work of Geoffrey Tozer, and what it was like to work with the big personalities of Paul Keating and Richard Gill.
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Artist, Activist and Antagonist: The Misrepresentation of Mathangi Arulpragasam
July 6th 2018 |
In anticipation of documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A, Vyshnavee Wijekumar gives us an insight into the controversial performer's art and activism.
Traced through her own parallel family history, Vy explores her connection to M.I.A as a fellow Sri Lankan Tamil migrant.
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More Heart than Horror: An Interview with Florian Habicht
August 16th 2017 |
In an interview with director Florian Habicht, MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Dominic Ellis looks behind the theme-park frights in the documentary Spookers.
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On Dries and Rethinking the Fashion Documentary
August 11th 2017 |
2017 Critics Campus participant Phoebe Chen strips back the glamour in her look at Reiner Holzemer’s Dries and the fashion documentary.
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