Upcoming Events: Melbourne Queer Film Festival

By David Hatcher on 03/5/2007
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The 17th Melbourne Queer Film Festival cements its place as one of the world's largest queer film festivals. MQFF screens more than 120 features, shorts and documentaries from Australia and all over the world. Over the past 14 years it is estimated that the festival has attracted 120,000 people, making it the second largest in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne Queer Film Festival
The largest and most successful queer film festival in Australia, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival will take place from March 15 - 25.

Kicking off with its roof-raising opening night and party at the Astor Theatre in St Kilda, The 2007 Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) will be screening 122 films over ten days including 38 feature films, 27 documentaries and over 10 feature film Australian premieres.

Opening and Closing nights of the Festival are as always, a highlight of the social calendar for the queer community. MQFF is delighted to confirm Infamous, the accurate and compelling portrayal of the brilliant and egotistical author Truman Capote as the opening night film. Closing night film is the hilarious Itty Bitty Titty Committee, by Jamie Babbit (who will be a guest of the Festival.)

Highlights of the 2007 program include: the Australian premiere of 2 new Australian feature films, Ed Aldridge’s gay surf film Tan Lines, and the World Premiere of Melbourne filmmaker Kylie Eddy’s This Kiss. International entries include: The Gymnast, winner of 9 international Best Film Awards including LA Outfest, 20 Centimetres, a hilarious Spanish comedy featuring a narcoleptic transsexual prostitute, Another Gay Movie, a queer teen sex comedy that makes ‘American Pie’ look tame, and Cut Sleeve Boys, from Hong Kongstarring Chowee Leow, who is also an MQFF guest.

The strong international selection includes features from Iceland, The Philippines, Mexico, Taiwan, Romania, Bosnia, Herzegovina and South Korea including the brilliant award winning film, The King and the Clown (Wang-ui Namja), South Korea’s Official Entry into the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. From out of the archives MQFF presents Frank Brittain’s seminal 1970 Australian feature,The Set. 

This year in partnership with the City of Melbourne, MQFF will also be presenting the 2007 Oz Shorts program which offers a $2,000 cash prize for Best Australian Short Film. Filmmakers will also vie for best feature film, best documentary, best short film and best Australian Short Film with over $9,000 in cash prizes on offer.

Strap on the stilettos or buckle up those boots, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival needs you on the floor….

For tickets, schedule and all information visit www.melbournequeerfilm.com.au

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