Guests at MIFF 2017
Every year MIFF welcomes a wide variety of guests – local and international – to participate in the festival. From introducing their films and taking part in post-screening Q&As with you, the audience, to sitting on MIFF Talks panels or taking over our social media, our guests are a vital part of what makes the MIFF experience unique.
In 2017, MIFF is hosting guests at the following screenings and VR events, and their associated Talks:
Across | director Christopher W Bailey
Ali's Wedding | director Jeffrey Walker, screenwriter and actor Osamah Sami, co-screenwritier Andrew Knight and actor Helana Sawires
Australia Day | director Kriv Stenders and actor Elias Anton
Blessed | director Ana Kokkinos
By the Time it Gets Dark | director Anocha Suwichakornpong
Call Me by Your Name | director Luca Guadagino
Celia | director/screenwriter Ann Turner and actor Rebecca Smart
Daphne | director Peter Mackie Burns
Ellipsis | director David Wenham
Fun Fair Jalalabad | director George Gittoes
Glitch: Series 2 | director Emma Freeman, screenwriter Louise Fox and executive producer Tony Ayres
God's Own Country | director Francis Lee
Guardians of the Strait | director/producer Claire Jager, cinematographer/producer Samantha Dinning
Have You Seen the Listers? | director Eddie Martin, subject Anthony Lister
High Tide | director Gillian Armstrong, actor Claudia Karvan
Hope Road | director Tom Zubrycki
Human Traces | director Nic Gorman and actors Sophie Henderson and Mark Mitchinson
Inside Manus | director Lucas Taylor
Jungle | director Greg McLean, actors Joel Jackson and Lily Sullivan, and real-life inspiration Yossi Ghinsberg
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web | director Annie Goldson
King of Peking | director Sam Voutas
Loving Pia | director Daniel Borgman
Loving Vincent | artist Andrew Grimmer
Michel Chion: The Audio Spectator | composer/filmmaker/historian Michel Chion
Mountain | director Jennifer Peedom
Namatjira Project | Albert Namatjira's grandduaghter Leni Namatjira and actor Trevor Jamieson
Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs | directors Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek
On Guard | director Susan Lambert
Only the Brave | director Ana Kokkinos
PACMen | director Luke Walker
Pecking Order | director Slavko Martinov
Porto | director Gabe Klinger
Rabbit | director Luke Shanahan and actor Adelaide Clemens
Remember | directors George Kacevski and Frederic Simard
Rone | director Lester Francois and subject Rone
Shame | actor Deborra Lee-Furness
Something Quite Peculiar: The Life and Time of Steve Kilbey | subject Steve Kilbey
Spookers | director Florian Habicht
Starstruck | director Gillian Armstrong
That's Not Me | director/screenwriter Gregory Erdstein and actor/screenwriter/producer Alice Foulcher
The Allins | director Sami Saif and cinematographer Anders Löfstedt
The Big Steal | director Nadia Tass, actor Claudia Karvan
The Butterfly Tree | director Priscilla Cameron and actors Melissa George, Ewen Leslie and Ed Oxenbould
The Extraction | directors Khoa Do and Piers Mussared
The Go-Betweens: Right Here | director Kriv Stenders, subject Robert Foster
There Will be Blood | conductor Hugh Brunt
The Silent Eye | director Amiel Courtin-Wilson
The Song Keepers | director Naina Sen and subjects the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir
Three Summers | director/screenwriter Ben Elton and actors Robert Sheehan, Rebecca Breeds, Michael Caton, Magda Szubanski and Kelton Pell
Top of the Lake: China Girl | directors Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman, screenwriter Gerard Lee and actors Alice Englert and Ewen Leslie
Unrest and Unrest VR | director Jennifer Brea
Westwind: Djalu's Legacy | director Ben Strunin, subject Djalu Gurruwiwi (with band)