The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is back with a vengeance for its 2024 edition, showcasing more than 250 features, shorts, and XR experiences. Artistic director Al Cossar promises a “multi-faceted festival of cinematic excess,” designed to delight and ignite the imaginations of all attendees. “The MIFF program this year, like every year, is designed to delight … Read more
Memoir of a Snail, directed by locally-born, Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot, has been set as the opening title of the Melbourne International Film Festival. The festival runs Aug. 8-25 and is expected to comprise more than 250 titles. An early sneak peek, revealed Thursday, confirmed a high quality international and local selection. These include Cannes Critics’ Week award … Read more
The Board of Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announce the appointment of Damien Hodgkinson in a newly created role of Chief Executive Officer, marking an exciting new chapter in the organisation’s storied history. Damien joins Australia’s largest film festival after 11 years at the helm of Melbourne International Comedy Festival as its Executive Director. In … Read more
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the inaugural MIFF Awards recipients. Chosen by a distinguished independent jury of industry figures presided over by Jury President, Shareena Clanton, the $140,000 Bright Horizons Award winner, supported by VicScreen, was Neptune Frost by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams and the recipient of the $70,000 Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award was Jub Clerc for direction in Sweet As. … Read more
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced the recipients of the 2022 MIFF Shorts Awards, which reward filmmakers with more than $63,500 in prizes. An in-person ceremony was held at ACMI on Thursday evening with seven out of the 78 films in the program accoladed by a jury consisting of filmmaker Tiriki Onus (Ablaze), director James Vaughan (Friends and Strangers), and … Read more
The 70th edition of Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has begun, with a spectacular gala red carpet event set to usher in the opening weekend of the country’s longest running film festival. Storming back into cinemas for 18 days of action-packed-cinema, MIFF’s in-person program – the first since 2019 – will envelop Melbourne CBD with … Read more
Heralding a milestone celebration, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced a monumental 70th program overflowing with premiere showcases, buzzworthy international features and special anniversary events in the festival’s first in-cinema Melbourne schedule since 2019. Throughout August, Melbourne’s city and surrounds will be consumed by film, with 257 feature films, 102 shorts and 12 XR works on the bill for MIFF’s 70th anniversary. The … Read more
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced that its 70th anniversary edition in August will include the debut of the annual MIFF Film Competition. Already the Southern Hemisphere’s largest and longest-running film festival, MIFF will now also offer one of the world’s most substantial festival prize pools. Initially comprising three awards, the MIFF Film Competition‘s … Read more