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.
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March 14, 2019 Win 1 of 4 double passes to Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2019
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March 13, 2019 Victorian Government announces $145,000 in funding to support conversion therapy survivors
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February 27, 2019 Melbourne Queer Film Festival: The Program Director’s top ten picks for the 2019 festival
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February 13, 2019 Melbourne Queer Film Festival announces huge 2019 program
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January 18, 2019 Voting open for short film competition tackling smoking rates in LGBTI community
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Melbourne Queer Film Festival announces huge 2019 program
“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.
Voting open for short film competition tackling smoking rates in LGBTI community
“These creative filmmakers have done a stellar job of portraying how smoking really does kill the vibe in important moments.”
Victorian campaign aims to raise awareness of high smoking rates in LGBTI community
“Research has found that viewers of movies with LGBTI themes are exposed to one depiction of tobacco use every 15 minutes.”
Community spotlight: Spiro Economopoulos, Melbourne Queer Film Festival
“The LGBTI community has proven to be both resilient and fierce in the face of adversity, again and again.”
‘When we started we knew nothing about AIDS’: former ACT UP activist
“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”
Win 1 of 4 double passes to Melbourne Queer Film Festival
This year’s MQFF features a stellar line-up of queer cinema from all around the world.
Top ten films to watch at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival
We asked program director Spiro Economopoulos to cherry pick his personal favourites.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival launches major 2018 program
“Every film will confront queer culture with honesty, insight, and not infrequently, the great leveller, humour”
Proudly different
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.