By Travis Johnson
The 2017 iteration of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival runs from July 9 to 16, bringing all the best factual content direct from Hot Docs, SXSW, Doc NYC, Doc Edge, Traverse City Film Festival, Sundance, Cannes, Doxa, Tribeca and more. A huge host of documentary features will play across four venues: Cinema Nova, Howler, Laneway Center, and Longplay. The opening short is The Satellite by Ann Johnson, which tells the improbable true story of Australia’s first spacecraft.
Over 80 films will screen this year, divided among curated sections including Australian, Short Documentary, Music, Foodie, Art, Street Art, Environmental, LGBTI, Aboriginal, Investigative Journalism Documentaries, and World Cinema. Guests this year include Costa Botes (Candy Man, Forgotten Silver, LOTR), John Pritchard (One Heart, One Spirit) and Jack Thompson (The Man from Snowy River, Breaker Morant).
Outside of the actual screenings, a number of seminars and workshops are taking place at the Laneway Learning Center, including a Master Class on Documentary Filmmaking, Indigenous Filmmaking and a seminar on distribution from leading Australian distributors.
For more information, go to the official site.
