MIFF 2022

At a special Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) media event highlighting the next generation of talented Melbourne filmmakers – Thomas Wright (The Stranger), Alena Lodkina (Petrol), and Goran Stolveski (Of an Age & You Won’t Be Alone) – we heard from the three trailblazers about their new buzz-worthy films and how they fit into the Australian film landscape today. Australian filmmaker Thomas Wright has always been attracted to dark material.

At a special Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) media event highlighting the next generation of talented Melbourne filmmakers – Thomas Wright (The Stranger), Alena Lodkina (Petrol) and Goran Stolveski (Of an Age & You Won’t Be Alone) – we heard from the three trailblazers about their new buzz-worthy films and how they fit into the Australian film landscape today. Alena Lodkina: “Petrol”  Writer-director Alena Lodkina moved with her family from St.

At a special Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) media event highlighting the next generation of talented Melbourne filmmakers – Thomas Wright (The Stranger), Alena Lodkina (Petrol) and Goran Stolveski (Of an Age & You Won’t Be Alone) – we heard from the three trailblazers about their new buzz-worthy films and how they fit into the Australian film landscape today. Goran Stolveski: Of an Age and You Won’t Be Alone  Australian-Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolveski had his second and third films both opening at MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival): You Won’t Be Alone, a horror film starring Noomi Rapace, and Of an Age, a wistful queer romance set in ‘90s Melbourne and picked up by Focus Features.

The world’s longest film festival – clocking up 25 consecutive days over 26 venues – announced two new MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) awards at the Closing Night Gala on August 20. The AUD$140,000 “Bright Horizons Award” – supported by the state’s film commission, VicScreen – was given to Neptune Frost, from Rwandan filmmakers Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams and the AUD$70,000  “Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award” was won by Jub Clerc, indigenous writer and director of the coming-of-age drama, Sweet As.

The 70th edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) kicked off August 4 with an Australian classic in the making; Goran Stolevski’s Of an Age.   The Australian-Macedonian filmmaker’s second film follows the brief but lingering romance between two young men over the course of one sweltering summer’s day in Melbourne in the late 1990s.