The 2019 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is running until July 30th and we have a list of 10 documentaries that are going to screen at the festival that we think you should see. 10 – Dog’s Best Friend 9 – Looby 8 – The Candidate 7 – Chasing the Jet Stream 6 – Red Sunday…
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Tommy Emmanuel : The Endless Road – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Jeremy Dylan Score 5.5/6 From the Australian outback to Music City USA, a child guitar prodigy dedicates his life to become the world’s greatest acoustic guitarist, even as revelations of dark family secrets send him into a battle with addiction that threatens to destroy his career, his family and his life. Even though I…
Saving Warru – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Daniel Clarke and Amy Pysden Score 5.5/6 Warru, or black-footed rock-wallaby, is one of South Australia’s most endangered mammals. In 2007, when numbers dropped below 200 in the remote central desert, the Warru Recovery Team was formed to help save the precious species from extinction. If you go to a film festival, I feel…
Singled Out – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Mariona Guiu & Ariadna Relea Score 5/6 Singled [Out] tells the story of five educated women in four corners of the world: Jules in Melbourne, Manu in Barcelona, Shu and Yang in Shanghai, and Melek in Istambul -they all travel solo in a world where pairing up is the norm. Together with the voices…
Red Sunday: Healing Through Narrative Therapy – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Hannah Cairns Rated 4/6 In the documentary, Red Sunday, community members of rural far east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia recount their experiences regarding the devastating 2014 bush fires, which lasted nearly 70 long, unpredictable, and traumatic days. Red Sunday is the first in a series of reviews of Documentaries that are going to be screened…
Chasing the Jet Stream – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Claudio Von Planta Score 4/6 Chasing the Jet Stream follows the pioneering adventure of Marc Hauser, a Swiss entrepreneur and motivational speaker who wants to become the first skydiver in the world jumping into a hurricane force jet stream at 8,000 to 10,000 meters altitude. I am willing to assume that more than a…
The Candidate – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Helen Gaynor Score 4/6 In March 2018 Filmmaker Helen Gaynor followed Greens candidate Alex Bhathal for the last 3 weeks of the election campaign for the federal seat of Batman. For those of you who might not remember or perhaps have conveniently forgotten the March 2018 election happened because the previous member was disqualified…
Looby – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Directors Iain Knight and Nick Garner Score 4/6 Looby is the story of what happens when an artist chooses to speak out. For Australian painter Keith Looby, it cost him almost everything. Winner of prestigious art prizes and collected by major galleries at home and abroad, Keith’s addiction to speaking his mind has left a…
Dogs Best Friend – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Eryn Wilson Score 3/6 Profile of Jacob Leezak’s Canine Behaviour Expert Dog Psychology Centre, located in outer Sydney, a place where traumatised dogs and traumatised humans can heal one another. Dogs. People like Dogs and people have strong feelings about traumatised and neglected dogs. So, it won’t surprise me if a lot of people…
Wade Jackson Waiting – The Van Duren Story Interview – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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A big thank you to Wade Jackson for taking the time to answer some questions about his documentary Waiting – The Van Duren Story which is going to be screened at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.