Jen Peedom's 'River' and Ben Lawrence's 'Ithaka' add to the already strong contingent of local films bound for August's Melbourne International Film Festival, which unveiled its full program today.
In putting together this year's Melbourne International Film Festival, director Al Cossar was "hoping for the best and planning for utter chaos".
This year's Melbourne International Film Festival will include the richest feature film competition in the Southern Hemisphere, with $140,000 going to the winner of the Best Film Award.
An augmented reality (AR) interpretation of being in a queue at the Melbourne International Film Festival has been selected as the inaugural MIFF XR Commission, receiving an $80,000 philanthropic grant.
The world premiere of Goran Stolevski's anticipated sophomore feature, 'Of An Age', will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
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.
'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.
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.