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Ooh La Mirada!

Ooh La Mirada!

As La Mirada takes off for 2011, ACMI speaks to the festival’s founder and director, Rocío García.

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The essential MIFF survival guide

The essential MIFF survival guide

The doors are about to be flung open again on the Melbourne International Film Festival and as all serious festival-goers know, there is a silent code about what goes and what doesn’t.

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Cannes wrap up

Cannes wrap up

Well Cannes has wrapped for another year and as usual it was an incredibly demanding, tiring, insightful and rewarding experience – an explosion of noise, colour, cigarette smoke and accents from the four corners. 

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Support for Oz filmmakers at Cannes

Support for Oz filmmakers at Cannes

I understand there’s a robust discussion going on in Australia about the representation Screen Australia provides to filmmakers on the ground here in Cannes, sparked by David Gould’s piece in Encore online.

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Dispatch from Cannes

Dispatch from Cannes

Cannes, Sunday. Been standing in a line for over an hour in the blazing sun hoping to get into one of the Director’s Fortnight films - which had now better be mighty good.

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Festivals flourishing, but on shifting sands

Festivals flourishing, but on shifting sands

The Australian film festival circuit is about to launch into ‘production mode’ and recent developments can’t help but get the mind speculating as to what kind of cycle we’re about to enter into: a cycle that will set the screen culture scene for at the next four to six years at the very least.

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