The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has unveiled the jury for this year's $140,000 Bright Horizons Award while announcing the nominees for the newly named Uncle Jack Charles Award.
Everything from a Melbourne-shot coming-of-age prison drama to a passion project four decades in the making will make its way to next month's Melbourne International Film Festival, with the full line-up announced this evening.
First-time director Ramata-Toulaye Sy has won the $140,000 Bright Horizons competition at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival for romantic drama Banel & Adama.
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced the nominees and juries for the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award and the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award.
The full line-up for this year's Melbourne International Film Festival was revealed Tuesday evening, with a significant number of Australian additions, such as the world premieres of Jason Raftopoulos' sophomore feature 'Voices in Deep' and Matthew Adekponya's behind-the-scenes look at how the Boomers took bronze in Tokyo, 'Rose Gold'.
Having already announced 'Shayda' and 'Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story' as gala films last month, Melbourne International Film Festival has unveiled a further 20 titles for its August line-up.
'Neptune Frost', directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, is the winner of the Melbourne International Film Festival's inaugural Bright Horizons Award, while Jub Clerc won the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award.
Melbourne International Film Festival returns to metro cinemas with a bumper program, and 70th anniversary celebrations that include a major retrospective and cinematic homages to the festival from Ivan Sen, Justin Kurzel and Soda Jerk.