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Clare Stewart and Michelle Carey have a long history, stretching back to when they first worked together on the Melbourne Cinematheque Committee back in the early 2000s.
Each would go on to work at ACMI in its early days, before becoming heavyweights in the Australian festival landscape in their own right. Stewart was the director of Sydney Film Festival from 2006 to 2011, then heading off to lead the BFI London Film Festival and BFI Flare for five years, while Carey was the artistic director of the Melbourne International Film f...