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We’ve all been there, right? Thinking you were onto a winner only to fail spectacularly and painfully in a blaze of glory?!
 
Hear stories of the worst best failures from filmmakers and storytellers at MIFF’s first F*UP NIGHT, because sometimes the single greatest lessons in creativity can come from taking risks and failing – and not just failing well but f*ing up seismically!
 
Come laugh, cry and cringe your way through the worst best failures in a hand-holding kumbaya tribute to disasters great and small, featuring guests including Luke McGregor and Tegan Higginbotham, with more to be announced.

Luke McGregor
Luke McGregor’s comedy career began in 2007, after entering the Raw Comedy competition. Luke’s first solo Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, My Soul Mate is Out of My League, played to sold out rooms and won the Best Newcomer Award, and his shows since have been equally acclaimed. On television, Luke has had roles in Utopia, Legally Brown, Time of Our Lives and Please Like Me. In 2016, Luke presented Luke Warm Sex on ABC TV, and he wrote, performed in and produced the ABC TV series Rosehaven with Celia Pacquola. They finished shooting series two this year.

Tegan Higginbotham
Tegan Higginbotham is a multi-talented comedian, actor and writer. She's appeared in TV mini-series Molly, in films Oddball and Holding the Man, and on Foxtel’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? She has also had a regular presence on television, including on shows Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Project and Foxtel’s Screen, with Margaret Pomeranz and Graeme Blundell. Other acting credits include It's a Date, Thank God You’re Here, Twenty Something, City Homicide and This is Littleton.

Santilla Chingaipe
Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She spent seven years working for SBS World News, reporting from Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia and interviewing some of Africa’s most prominent leaders. Her work explores contemporary migration, cultural identities and politics. She recently presented a one-off documentary for SBS, Date My Race. Chingaipe is currently directing and producing documentary on the complexities of Australia’s South Sudanese community. She is also making a short documentary exploring the perception of beauty in Australia. Chingaipe writes regularly for The Saturday Paper.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Amiel Courtin-Wilson is one of Australia's most innovative filmmakers, whose internationally acclaimed and award-winning work as both a filmmaker and artist spans feature films, documentary, video installation, drawing and photography. At 19, his debut award winning feature documentary Chasing Buddha premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He has since directed over 20 short films and six feature films including Bastardy (2008), Hail (2011), Ruin (2013) and The Silent Eye (2016).