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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Isabella Gullifer-Laurie speaks to Audrey Lam about her library-set experimental feature, a meditative journey through architectural space and pages.