Critics Campus 2026 participant Guy Webster speaks to directorial duo THUNDERLIPS about medical misogyny, genre tropes, and finding the right balance between comedy and body horror in their outrageous feature directorial debut.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Guuleed Ismail speaks to Sophy Romvari about travel, technology, and the large and small elements of her own life that have found their way into her emotionally devastating debut feature.

Critics Campus 2026 participant Heather Fraser speaks to Adam C. Briggs about Australiana, autonomy and the prolific link between outré creativity and the ‘fuck-up freak’ community, as exemplified by his audacious fever dream Phillip Philadelphia.

MIFF Publications Manager David Heslin speaks to Lisandro Alonso about the ideas that motivate his work, the challenges of finding backers in an age of transnational funding and the importance of taking time to connect with what we see onscreen.

In the fifth instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Michelle Wang (2020 cohort), Charles Carrall (2023 cohort) and Indigo Bailey (2023 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.

Lorin Clarke speaks about the challenges of documentary storytelling, the changing cultural footprint of television and her own journey in making the film.

Director Maria Angelico and cinematographer Zoe Coldham discuss their affectionate and often very funny documentary portrait of men bonding over a shared passion.

Recent VCA graduates Ravi Chand and Sara Norman talk to MIFF about their film Coconut, a short comedy screening in the 2025 VCA Film and Television Graduate Season.