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    Big wins for Aussie filmmakers

    Almost all of the award winning films at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival were locally made, with three out of the four winners coming from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. It’s a coup for Melbourne’s Lee Galea...

    • Posted 56 days ago
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    CLOSED: MQFF tickets to I Do

    Thanks to our friends at Melbourne Queer Film Festival, we have 10 double passes to give away to the 7pm Sunday, March 17 screening of I Do at ACMI. With its timely storyline, I Do highlights the barriers faced...

    • Posted 71 days ago
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    Stiletto steals the show

    Silver Stiletto, the drag caper about an ex-SAS soldier turned vigilante drag queen, walked away with the Audience Award at the My Queer Career short film program at Mardi Gras Film Festival on Friday, March 22. The...

    • Posted 84 days ago
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    Aussie feature films debut at MQFF

    Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) organisers are excited to see not one but two Australian feature films making their Australian debut at this year’s festival. MQFF launched its 2013 program to a packed house last night at...

    • Posted 91 days ago
  • Melbourne queer film festival sneak peak

    Australia’s largest LGBTI film festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, has revealed just a fraction of what’s to come in 2013. The 2013 line-up will screen over 150 films from filmmakers across the world for 10 days in...

    • Posted 134 days ago
  • Queer event funding safe post-election

    Incumbent Melbourne City Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has kept the city’s top job for another three years, defeating LGBTI advocate and former deputy Lord Mayor Gary Singer last weekend. Team Doyle, including deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley...

    • Posted 203 days ago
  • Gay Australian film claims world prize

    In an Australian first, Melbourne director Grant Scicluna has taken out the coveted top prize at the world’s ‘gay short film Oscars’ for his striking work, The Wilding. Scicluna last week won the 2012 Iris Prize, the...

    • Posted 211 days ago
  • New face for film festival

    The Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) has announced Kylie Eddy as its new general manager this week. It came just days after entries for next year’s program opened up to the public. Eddy returns to the MQFF...

    • Posted 274 days ago
  • Parkes to green Melbourne

    Melbourne City Council could fund more LGBTI events like Midsumma Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Greens Melbourne mayoral candidate Alison Parkes said. Parkes, a marriage equality supporter, and David Collis will be running in the...

    • Posted 336 days ago
  • Wild times for filmmaker

    Audiences at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival crowned The Wilding the season’s Best Australian Short Film. The short film is a gritty insight into a gay relationship set in a juvenile jail and follows what happens...

    • Posted 393 days ago