Tag Archive for Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

MDFF 2021 – Finding Creativity

Director Roger Ungers Score 4/6 An intimate and pragmatic look into the creative process from those who harness creativity in their personal and professional lives. Finding Creativity is being screened as part of the 2021 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Creativity, it certainly is an odd choice for the topic of a documentary. I suppose that…

MDFF 2021 – DTF

Director Al Bailey Score 5.5/6 DFT (DTF) is currently being screened in the 2021 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. A filmmaker follows his friend and widowed pilot across the world, to find love on Tinder. The quest spins to an expose of depraved behaviour. My first thought when I finished watching DTF (for those of you…

Cry of the Forests Melbourne Premiere July 25 at MDFF

A new documentary film highlighting the threats to Western Australia’s native forests and their real value in mitigating climate change will have its Melbourne premiere at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival on July 25. Cry of the Forests was made by independent WA-based filmmaker Jane Hammond in partnership with the WA Forest Alliance. Ms. Hammond…

MDFF 2021 – Australia Burns … Silence of the Land

Director Shane McLachlan Score 6/6 In 2019-20 Australia experienced a catastrophic bushfire season, one of the worst on record. This documentary focuses not only on the fires and their devastating effect on Australia’s unique wildlife and eco system, but whether climate change played a roll, why was it so random and merciless and will this…

MDFF 2021 – We are Conjola

Director Anthony ‘Ash’ Brennan Score 6/6 NYE 2019. Director and film maker Ash Brennan lost his house in the Conjola Park Bushfire which nearly killed his brother and many others who stayed to fight. From a Perth hotel room Ash saw the first image of what used to be his house in the background of…

MDFF 2021 – Batoor: A Refugee Journey

Director Barat Ali Batoor Score 6/6 Barat Ali Batoor was once Afghanistan’s most esteemed photographer working for the United States Embassy in Kabul. But in 2011, all this changed when The Washington Post published his potent photo essay exposing one of Afghanistan’s darkest secrets — the brutal trade in young dancing boys for the purposes…

MDFF 2021 Kicks off July 1

The 6th Melbourne Documentary Film Festival runs from the 1st -31st July 2021 Online and the 21st – 31st July 2021 In-Cinema at Cinema Nova as part of Documentary Month. The festival showcases the very best documentaries from: Venice, SXSW, Slamdance, CPHDOX, Doxa, Hot Docs, VIFF, Shanghai Film Festival, Harlem International Film Festival, Chicago International…