Revue

Putting Theory Into Practice: Two VCA Graduates Discuss Their Work

To accompany the 2024 VCA Film and Television Graduate Season, MIFF asked featured directors Xunyan Liu and Matthew Neumann about their experiences of bringing their ideas to fruition.

By MIFF Staff | 09 Dec 2024
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Tuning In: Grace Tan on Audio Technology and Visual Storytelling

In this article published in collaboration with Sennheiser, Grace Tan discusses the importance of sound in her work and her adoption of Sennheiser's EW-DP Wireless Microphone System.

By MIFF Staff | 03 Nov 2024

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Celebrating Strength and Resilience: An Interview With Shannon Owen

MIFF speaks to Bank Australia customer and filmmaker Shannon Owen about her documentary Left Write Hook, a joint winner of this year’s Intrepid Audience Award.

By MIFF Staff | 02 Oct 2024

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Riding the Next Wave: An Interview With Jaydon Martin

In the aftermath of director Jaydon Martin taking home the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award at MIFF, we speak to him about his experience of screening Flathead at the festival, and the effect it’s had on his journey as an artist.

By MIFF Staff | 18 Sep 2024

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Interviews Critics Campus

An Enduring Flame: Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on We Were Dangerous

Critics Campus 2024 participant Alice Bellette speaks to director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu about her fictionalised representation of the harrowing, defiant and even joyful experiences of girls in New Zealand state care institutions in the mid 20th century.

By Alice Bellette | 28 Aug 2024

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Interviews Critics Campus

Inner Worlds: Constance Tsang on Blue Sun Palace

Critics Campus 2024 participant Nicole Cadelina speaks to Constance Tsang about her feature debut, an intimate tale of sisterhood set in a Chinese massage parlour in New York.

By Nicole Cadelina | 25 Aug 2024

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Interviews Critics Campus

Complex Cosmologies: Jodi Wille on Welcome Space Brothers

Critics Campus 2024 participant Tara Kenny speaks to director Jodi Wille about Welcome Space Brothers, a remarkable chronicle of an alternative spiritual community that takes a very different tack from most documentaries of its kind.

By Tara Kenny | 24 Aug 2024

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Interviews Critics Campus

Natural Wonders: Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak on Fungi: Web of Life

Critics Campus 2024 participant Austin Lancaster speaks to executive producers Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak about the process of creating Fungi: Web of Life, a breathtaking document of mycological metamorphosis.

By Austin Lancaster | 24 Aug 2024

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Interviews Critics Campus

Lingering Embraces: Raven Jackson on All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Critics Campus 2024 participant Grace Boschetti speaks to Raven Jackson about her debut feature, an immersive and sensitive work that traces moments in a woman’s life across decades.

By Grace Boschetti | 23 Aug 2024

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Critics Campus Reviews

Dark Illusions: Niki de Saint Phalle’s Un rêve plus long que la nuit

Critics Campus 2024 participant Isabella Gullifer-Laurie writes on Niki de Saint Phalle’s 1976 feature, a surreal journey into a whimsical, frightening and aggressively sexualised dream world.

By Isabella Gullifer-Laurie | 23 Aug 2024

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Critics Campus Reviews

Sweet Dreams – Four Ways

Ena Sendijarević’s acidic satire Sweet Dreams receives some critical attention from four of our Critics Campus participants: Alice Bellette, Grace Boschetti, Austin Lancaster and Dylan Rowen.

22 Aug 2024