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Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020
Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020
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Australian Centre for the Moving Image, The Capitol, Palace Kino Cinemas, RMIT University CinemaStart date
2020-02-20End date
2020-02-23Language
engNotes
A film festival that includes screenings of short and features films, panels, and workshops held across Melbourne venues and supported by state and local governments.Research statement
Research Background The 2020 festival programme intervened in contemporary discourses of intersectional feminism and women’s screen storytelling through the curation of creative works from marginalised and diverse groups of women practitioners. While gender imbalance within the Australian screen industry has been identified through Screen Australia’s 2015 ‘Gender Matters’ report, communities of further marginalised women practitioners have not been made as visible. The festival’s programme was a platform for these filmmakers and their work to reveal and discuss the diversity of women whose lived experiences remain outside dominant reflections of Australian and Pacific cultures. Research Contribution As the festival’s director, I led the artistic direction and curation of 18 publicly-presented screenings, panels and workshops thematically titled ‘Stories in Colour’, aimed at providing a platform for marginalised women practitioners to share their work. This programme contained feature and short films from across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Moana Oceania showcasing the diverse experiences and stories of these filmmakers told through their practice. This included my collaboration with Dr Romaine Moreton to curate a First Nations and Pasifika filmmakers’ panel on sovereign storytelling held in dialogue with my programming of the opening night Pasifika film, Vai (2019). Other panels and screenings examined women’s perspectives on global citizenship, migration, diasporic storytelling, and inclusive representation within the broader screen industries. Research Significance Funded by Film Victoria and City of Melbourne and located at premier screen and cultural venues including The Capitol in partnership with Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), and Palace Kino Cinemas, indicates the importance of the festival in showcasing women’s filmmaking. The festival featured in national media including Fairfax syndicated newspapers and Triple J radio.Publication classification
JC2 Curated Exhibition or Event – Exhibition/EventScale
NTRO MinorExtent
1 digital festival programme 4 colour stillsEditor/Contributor(s)
Stevens K, Loreck J, Monaghan WEvent
Melbourne Women in Film. Festival (2020 : Melbourne, Victoria)Publisher
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, The Capitol, Palace Kino Cinemas, RMIT University CinemaPlace of publication
Melbourne, Vic.Usage metrics
Keywords
Australian film festivalsFeminismWomen's filmmaking190299 Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified200212 Screen and Media Culture970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and WritingSchool of Communication and Creative Arts3605 Screen and digital media4702 Cultural studies
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