Keywords: Melbourne Film Festival
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 April 2009
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Mary is a socially awkward adolescent, growing up in 1970s
suburban Melbourne. Her penpal Max
is a lonely New Yorker, a chronic overeater with Asperger's. Adam Elliot's films are not just about difference. They are about justice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
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In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 July 2008
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Cult filmmaker Romero fears that new media has, rather than democratising the news, led to increased
tribalism that is divisive rather than unifying. He articulates these fears in his latest high-concept zombie film, Diary of the Dead.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Dave Hoskin is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts. His writing has appeared in Metro and Pathway, and his short films have screened at festivals around the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
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This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Rice
- 24 June 2006
Margaret Rice talks to the man behind The Rage in Placid Lake.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Allan James Thomas, Juliette Hughes
- 11 May 2006
Reviews of the films Shaolin Soccer, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Connie and Carla
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