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MIFF Docos To Watch From Home

Five of the best MIFF-featured documentaries you can stream online from Programmer Kate Fitzpatrick.

By MIFF Staff | 19 May 2020
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MIFF Shorts to Watch from Home

MIFF Programmer Mia Falstein-Rush recommends past MIFF shorts you can stream now for free.

By MIFF Staff | 30 Apr 2020

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Interviews Critics Campus Australian Films Documentary 2019 68th MIFF

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.

17 Aug 2019

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The Art of the Documentary: An Interview with Pietra Brettkelly

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.

By Melanie | 16 Aug 2018

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Like How I Pictured It: Fangirls and the Enduring Power of the Boyband

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

By Alex | 09 Aug 2018

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Q&A with UNDERMINED: TALES FROM THE KIMBERLEY Director Nicholas Wrathall

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.

By MIFF Staff | 27 Jul 2018

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Q&A with The Eulogy director Janine Hosking

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.

By MIFF Staff | 13 Jul 2018

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Artist, Activist and Antagonist: The Misrepresentation of Mathangi Arulpragasam

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.

By Natalie | 06 Jul 2018

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More Heart than Horror: An Interview with Florian Habicht

In an interview with director Florian Habicht, MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Dominic Ellis looks behind the theme-park frights in the documentary Spookers.

By Alex | 16 Aug 2017

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On Dries and Rethinking the Fashion Documentary

2017 Critics Campus participant Phoebe Chen strips back the glamour in her look at Reiner Holzemer’s Dries and the fashion documentary.

By Alex | 11 Aug 2017

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Q&A with Have You Seen the Listers? director Eddie Martin

Eddie Martin, director of the MIFF Premiere Fund-supported film Have You Seen the Listers? speaks about the process of making the film and our changing attitudes to street art.

By MIFF Staff | 31 Jul 2017