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

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.

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.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Dylan Rowen speaks to director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel about the development of – and thinking behind – his tense single-location drama.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Daniel Tune speaks to director Matías Piñeiro about the aesthetic and thematic departures in his latest work, and how cinema can communicate the pleasure of encountering time-honoured texts.

In the lead-up to Kindred's NITV/SBS premiere during National Reconciliation Week, we speak to directors Adrian Russell Wills and Gillian Moody about the risks and rewards of recounting life experiences on film as well as the ongoing importance of empowering First Nations storytellers.

In the third instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Kristen S. Hé (2015 cohort), Keva York (2017 cohort) and Merryana Salem (2020 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.