Melbourne Queer Film Festival: The Program Director’s top ten picks for the 2019 festival
This year’s MQFF will run from Thursday 14 March to Monday 25 March.
This year’s MQFF will run from Thursday 14 March to Monday 25 March.
“The 2019 edition of MQFF is guaranteed to enthral whilst also casting a keen eye over LGBTIQ+ culture and its fascinating diversity,” said Program Director Spiro Economopoulos.
“These creative filmmakers have done a stellar job of portraying how smoking really does kill the vibe in important moments.”
“Research has found that viewers of movies with LGBTI themes are exposed to one depiction of tobacco use every 15 minutes.”
“The LGBTI community has proven to be both resilient and fierce in the face of adversity, again and again.”
“We were gay and HIV-positive, and wouldn’t let anybody else decide things for us. We wanted to be the masters of our own stories”
This year’s MQFF features a stellar line-up of queer cinema from all around the world.
We asked program director Spiro Economopoulos to cherry pick his personal favourites.
“Every film will confront queer culture with honesty, insight, and not infrequently, the great leveller, humour”
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival remains one of the world’s largest and longest running film festivals with an LGBTI focus. Matthew Wade caught up with the festival’s team to talk about the importance of queer film festivals and representing more diversity than audiences are exposed to in mainstream cinema.