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MIFF lifts the lid on its 2021 program, featuring a whopping 283 films Summer of Soul (.or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Words by Talia Rinaldo Melbourne International Film Festival is bringing a huge spread of feature and short films to cinemas and screens at home with this year’s program. Celebrating its 69th edition, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has revealed its 2021 program, with an astonishing lineup of 283 international and Australian films and transformative screen experiences. Presenting 199 feature films, 84 shorts, and ten XR experiences, the program includes 40 world premieres the most in the festival’s history and 154 Australian premieres, with 62 films available on MIFF Play the festival’s online screening platform. ....
Scoob! Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) Significant Other (Midnight Shorts Competition) Sonic the Hedgehog Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) Sophie and The Baron (Documentary Shorts Competition) Space Explorers: The ISS Experience Episode 2: Advance (Virtual Cinema Competition) Squeegee (Narrative Shorts Competition) Stuffed (Midnight Shorts Competition) Swamp Thing Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) Ten Leaves Dilated (Documentary Shorts Competition) The 100 Title Sequence (Title Design Competition) The Avalanches – ‘Running Red Lights’ (Music Video Competition) The Beauty President (Documentary Shorts Competition) The End Of Us (Narrative Feature Competition) The Expected (Animated Shorts Competition) The Fabulous Filipino Brothers (Narrative Spotlight) The Girlfriend Experience (Episodic Premieres) ....
Michael Apted, Heddy Honigmann has only gone and raced ahead of you by about 40 years. An unofficial spin-off of the Up series (which saw its most somber chapter yet with 63 Up), the pleasantly warm 100Up looks at the daily lives of a handful of centenarians to examine what life means at that grand old age. The issue with Honigmann’s film compared to Apted’s blueprint series, though, is that half of the subjects are relatively famous. There’s sex therapist Shirley Zussman, who became known in the Swinging Sixties and was eventually invited by Oprah to discuss her work on TV, and who formed half of a power couple with Leon Zussman, a doctor famed for performing one of the first legal abortions in New York. Then there’s Irwin Corey, a fellow New Yorker and retired stand-up comic who was affiliated with a who’s who of 50’s/60’s icons including fellow comedian Lenny Bruce, acclaimed author Thomas Pynchon, and the one and only Fidel Castr ....