Brietta Hague's 'Baltasar' was awarded Best Australian Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Shorts Awards yesterday evening, while Jordan Giusti, director of 'Reptile', took home the Award For Emerging Australian Filmmaker.
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) may have been unable to return to city cinemas this year, but the conditions proved ideal for other elements of the event.
In a sad blow, the Melbourne International Film Festival has announced it will cancel its in-cinema screenings given the current COVID situation in the city.
Australian films have won in two categories at this year's LA Shorts International Film Festival, with Jon Bell's 'The Moogai' awarded Best Horror and Tony Radevski's 'Risen' named Best Sci-Fi.
In putting together this year's Melbourne International Film Festival, director Al Cossar was "hoping for the best and planning for utter chaos".
Adrian Francis' documentary 'Paper City' follows three elderly survivors of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo in their fight against bureaucracy and indifference to ensure that the event and its victims are not forgotten.
Co-written with Christos Tsiolkas, Aaron Wilson's 1970s-set 'Little Tornadoes' depicts a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him.
James Vaughan's feature debut 'Friends & Strangers' is a satire that explores the drift of 20-something life.