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Reconciliation cinema: First Nations filmmaking at MIFF
In honour of National Reconciliation Week 2020, we’ve compiled a list of MIFF-featured titles made by, or in collaboration with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
MIFF Shorts to Watch from Home
MIFF Programmer Mia Falstein-Rush recommends past MIFF shorts you can stream now for free.
Waiting for The Waiting Room: Rolf de Heer on the Future of VR
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.
Through the Looking Glass: An Interview with Sequin in a Blue Room’s Conor Leach
Conor Leach dazzles in Samuel Van Grinsven’s Sequin in a Blue Room, who chats to 2019 Critics Campus participant about his role in the film and queer culture both on screen and off in Australia today.
In My Blood It Runs: An Interview with Maya Newell
Filmmaker Maya Newell talks to 2019 MIFF Critics Campus participant Claire Cao about her latest documentary, In My Blood It Runs.
Australian Stories, International Stories: An Interview with Animals Director Sophie Hyde
Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde speaks to 2019 MIFF Critics Campus participant Zoë Almeida Goodall about her latest film Animals and her career more broadly.
“The Blue Room is Limitless”: In Conversation with Samuel Van Grinsven, Director of Sequin in a Blue Room
2019 Critics Campus participant Luke McCarthy talks to Australian filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven about his feature debut, Sequin in a Blue Room.
In My Blood It Runs, Four Ways
Maya Newell’s In My Blood It Runs is considered from a range of different critical perspectives by four of our 2019 Critics Campus participants, including Michael Sun, Isabella Trimboli, Jamie Tram, and Olivia Bennett.
Beyond the Boundary: An Interview with The Merger director Mark Grentell
MIFF Critics Campus participant Claire White talks to director Mark Grentell about The Merger.
What the dreaming doing is what the dreaming does: a conversation with the Karrabing Film Collective
James Waters sat down with Elizabeth Povinelli, Linda Yarrowin and Cecilia Lewis of the Karrabing Film Collective discuss filmmaking, developing a collective voice and censoring swear words!
Not that Kind of Asian Girl: An Interview with director Hyun Lee
MIFF 2018 Critics Campus participant André Shannon speaks with Hyun Lee, director of the short film Asian Girls screening in the WTF Shorts package.