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Queer Screen heads to Parramatta and Canberra

March 31 - Festivals, Film

After the biggest Mardi Gras Film Festival in recent memory, Queer Screen is taking some of the biggest and best films on the road to Parramatta and Canberra. Catch up on films you may have missed or perhaps see a favour...

Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey - photo courtesy of SBS

SBS announces new Eurovision Hosts

March 24 - Music, Television

Radio host, presenter and music buff Myf Warhurst, together with comedian and… sequin buff Joel Creasey are the new duo who will host SBS’s broadcast, and provide commentary of the Semi Finals and Grand Final of the Euro...

Bruce Beresford to direct Ladies in Black

March 23 - Film

Academy Award nominated director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues, Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy) will bring to life Madeleine St John’s 1993 best-selling Australian novel The Women in Black after secu...

Top Picks at the 2017 Melbourne Queer Film Festival

March 16 - Festivals, Film

Celebrating its 27th year, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) is set to delight, excite, shock and surprise with the most cutting edge queer cinema has to offer from Australia and around the globe. We take a look a...

Jasper Jones

March 11 - Film

Adapted from Craig Silvey’s bestselling Australian novel, Jasper Jones is the story of Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14 living in a small town in Western Australia. In the dead of night during the scorching sum...

Human Rights Arts & Film Festival turns 10 in 2017

March 7 - Festivals, Film

Celebrating a milestone 10th Anniversary, the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) is back for 2017 with an exciting new selection of international and locally made films, a vibrant arts program and topical foru...

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

February 23 - Film

“I can’t imagine a life without film,” says Australia’s most revered critic, the English-born David Stratton. “I try to see a film every day. At least one.” Film is David’s life. Filed in a ring binder labeled 1946 on a ...

MQFF Guy on Guy Shorts Amir Stolar's Haircut

Melbourne Queer Film Festival announces 2017 program

February 18 - Festivals, Film

Now in its 27th year, Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), Australia’s largest queer film festival, has launched its massive 2017 program encompassing 135 challenging and inspiring films from 30 countries, including 47 ...