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Melbourne’s local doco fest. Documentary Month 1st - 31st July 2025. Call for entries mdff.org.au
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We aim to support independent documentary filmmaking in Melbourne, Australia and around the globe.
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Here's a link to my short film Temple Lament that was shown at the UNFIX NYC 2025 Film Festival and at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
TEMPLE LAMENT
Bereep-Bereep is the Indigenous name for Mount Cole. It translates as ‘wild’ in the language of the Beeripmo balug group of the Djab wurrung people.…
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July 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Here's a link to my short film Temple Lament that was shown at the UNFIX NYC 2025 Film Festival and at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
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Thanks everyone who came to the premier of KNOW ME at the @mdff.bsky.social (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival) last Sunday afternoon. There were tears, heart warming embraces, reunions too and discussion that flowed from Cinema Nova's foyer onto a nearby pub and into the evening back home.
July 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Thanks everyone who came to the premier of KNOW ME at the @mdff.bsky.social (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival) last Sunday afternoon. There were tears, heart warming embraces, reunions too and discussion that flowed from Cinema Nova's foyer onto a nearby pub and into the evening back home.
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Review: "Expression of Illness" screening online at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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Review: 'Expression of Illness' - Documentary Drive
With "Expression of Illness," filmmaker Bryn Silverman offers an intimate glimpse into her experience with thyroid cancer, crafting a short documentary that unfolds like a personal diary—raw, reflecti...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Review: "Expression of Illness" screening online at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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First time seeing Temple Lament on the big screen @mdff.bsky.social Good to see the space and the detail in the film, to have a live audience, to discuss the movie at the Q&A with 3CR's Annie McLaughlin, and the young director of Verge Collection, another of the films at the session. Fun time.
July 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
First time seeing Temple Lament on the big screen @mdff.bsky.social Good to see the space and the detail in the film, to have a live audience, to discuss the movie at the Q&A with 3CR's Annie McLaughlin, and the young director of Verge Collection, another of the films at the session. Fun time.
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A Perth filmmaker has taken out the top award at this year's Australia Youth Film Festival, held in Melbourne on Friday night. Dannon Wu, 24, won the ABC Best Overall Film award for 'Black Cockatoos: Cultural Significance,' a documentary centred on an Elders Yarning Circle.
Noongar Elders’ stories drive award-winning Black Cockatoo film
A Perth filmmaker has taken out the top award at this year's Australia Youth Film Festival, held in Melbourne on Friday night. Dannon Wu, 24, won the ABC Best Overall Film award for 'Black Cockatoos: Cultural Significance,' a documentary centred on an Elders Yarning Circle.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A Perth filmmaker has taken out the top award at this year's Australia Youth Film Festival, held in Melbourne on Friday night. Dannon Wu, 24, won the ABC Best Overall Film award for 'Black Cockatoos: Cultural Significance,' a documentary centred on an Elders Yarning Circle.
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Screening at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, REFLECTIONS OF COURAGE is "Distressing, powerful and thought-provoking…" according to Annette Basile's review
Reflections of Courage - FilmInk
Distressing, powerful and thought-provoking…
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July 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Screening at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, REFLECTIONS OF COURAGE is "Distressing, powerful and thought-provoking…" according to Annette Basile's review
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The Longer You Bleed filmmaker Ewan Waddell writes about the over-riding themes of his documentary, when screens numb the soul.
The Longer You Bleed screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
The Longer You Bleed screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Is Our Empathy Dying in the Digital Age? - FilmInk
The Longer You Bleed (2025): When screens numb the soul
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July 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The Longer You Bleed filmmaker Ewan Waddell writes about the over-riding themes of his documentary, when screens numb the soul.
The Longer You Bleed screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
The Longer You Bleed screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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I really appreciate this thoughtful review of Dwarf Story from Documentary Drive in Australia. They really got the film! Thank you.
The film is available for two more weeks for audiences in Australia as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
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The film is available for two more weeks for audiences in Australia as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
www.documentarydrive.com/review-dwarf...
Review: 'Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice' - Documentary Drive
Directed by Riccardo Servini, “Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice” is a thoughtful and deeply moving documentary that engages with one of the most pressing and polarizing developments in the world...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I really appreciate this thoughtful review of Dwarf Story from Documentary Drive in Australia. They really got the film! Thank you.
The film is available for two more weeks for audiences in Australia as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
www.documentarydrive.com/review-dwarf...
The film is available for two more weeks for audiences in Australia as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
www.documentarydrive.com/review-dwarf...
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The best guitarist you've never heard of finally gets her due in: 'Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine' screening as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. My review:
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Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2025) - Film Review
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July 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The best guitarist you've never heard of finally gets her due in: 'Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine' screening as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. My review:
www.weekendnotes.com/goddess-of-s...
www.weekendnotes.com/goddess-of-s...
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What's the definition of happiness?
It's in the title of new Australian documentary.
Annette Basile reviews.
The Definition of Happiness screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
It's in the title of new Australian documentary.
Annette Basile reviews.
The Definition of Happiness screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
The Definition of Happiness - FilmInk
… fun, upbeat ...
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July 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What's the definition of happiness?
It's in the title of new Australian documentary.
Annette Basile reviews.
The Definition of Happiness screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
It's in the title of new Australian documentary.
Annette Basile reviews.
The Definition of Happiness screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Join me on Sunday 27 July at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival for the first public screening of KNOW ME at Cinema Nova, 12:20 PM, Carlton, Melbourne. Booking details in bio link. KNOW ME is one of several incredible short films being screened at that session. It's going to be great!
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Join me on Sunday 27 July at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival for the first public screening of KNOW ME at Cinema Nova, 12:20 PM, Carlton, Melbourne. Booking details in bio link. KNOW ME is one of several incredible short films being screened at that session. It's going to be great!
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The natural and cultural values of the Kimberley's Martuwarra Fitzroy River was showcased to a Naarm audience recently, when powerful nature documentary Lifeblood premiered at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Beauty of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River showcased at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
The natural and cultural values of the Kimberley's Martuwarra Fitzroy River was showcased to a Naarm audience recently, when powerful nature documentary Lifeblood premiered at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
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July 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The natural and cultural values of the Kimberley's Martuwarra Fitzroy River was showcased to a Naarm audience recently, when powerful nature documentary Lifeblood premiered at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
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Melbourne's iconic Nicholas Building gets its own documentary.,
The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall
The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall
The Nicholas Building - FilmInk
The film’s contents may lack the polish or shape, but its tactility – its sounds, colours and characters – are what makes The Nicholas Building priceless.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Melbourne's iconic Nicholas Building gets its own documentary.,
The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall
The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall
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Annette Basile reviews LOVE IN THE WALLS, closing night film at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Love in the Walls - FilmInk
... important, fairly hopeful and very watchable ...
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July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Annette Basile reviews LOVE IN THE WALLS, closing night film at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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July 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🎬 The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
🎟️ Browse the full lineup + get tickets here: watch.eventive.org/mdff
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#MDFFest #DocumentaryFilm #MelbourneFilmFestival #SupportIndieFilm
🎬 The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
🎟️ Browse the full lineup + get tickets here: watch.eventive.org/mdff
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/events/melbo...
🎟️ imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/the-lo...
#MDFFest #DocumentaryFilm #MelbourneFilmFestival #SupportIndieFilm
🎟️ Browse the full lineup + get tickets here: watch.eventive.org/mdff
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July 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🎬 The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
🎟️ Browse the full lineup + get tickets here: watch.eventive.org/mdff
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/events/melbo...
🎟️ imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/the-lo...
#MDFFest #DocumentaryFilm #MelbourneFilmFestival #SupportIndieFilm
🎟️ Browse the full lineup + get tickets here: watch.eventive.org/mdff
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/events/melbo...
🎟️ imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/the-lo...
#MDFFest #DocumentaryFilm #MelbourneFilmFestival #SupportIndieFilm
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Left Behind follows a group of bold NYC moms fighting for the first public dyslexic school in America’s largest district. Three years. One mission: justice in education. 🎓 Don’t miss the MDFF screening — July 30, 8:50pm, Cinema Nova.
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
July 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Left Behind follows a group of bold NYC moms fighting for the first public dyslexic school in America’s largest district. Three years. One mission: justice in education. 🎓 Don’t miss the MDFF screening — July 30, 8:50pm, Cinema Nova.
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
Left Behind follows a group of bold NYC moms fighting for the first public dyslexic school in America’s largest district. Three years. One mission: justice in education. 🎓 Don’t miss the MDFF screening — July 30, 8:50pm, Cinema Nova.
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
July 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Left Behind follows a group of bold NYC moms fighting for the first public dyslexic school in America’s largest district. Three years. One mission: justice in education. 🎓 Don’t miss the MDFF screening — July 30, 8:50pm, Cinema Nova.
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova
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Don’t miss Union at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, July 29, 9:10pm at Cinema Nova! This powerful Sundance doc follows Chris Smalls and workers fighting Amazon for labor rights, capturing their historic union win. #MDFFest #MDFFest2025 #UnionDoc
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July 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Don’t miss Union at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, July 29, 9:10pm at Cinema Nova! This powerful Sundance doc follows Chris Smalls and workers fighting Amazon for labor rights, capturing their historic union win. #MDFFest #MDFFest2025 #UnionDoc
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...
Don’t miss Union at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, July 29, 9:10pm at Cinema Nova! This powerful Sundance doc follows Chris Smalls and workers fighting Amazon for labor rights, capturing their historic union win. #MDFFest #MDFFest2025 #UnionDoc
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...
July 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Don’t miss Union at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, July 29, 9:10pm at Cinema Nova! This powerful Sundance doc follows Chris Smalls and workers fighting Amazon for labor rights, capturing their historic union win. #MDFFest #MDFFest2025 #UnionDoc
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...
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Review: 5 Standout Shorts at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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Review: 5 Standout Shorts at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival - Documentary Drive
At this year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, the short documentary category is anything but small. With 9 dedicated Shorts Sessions and shorts screening alongside many of the features at Cinema...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Review: 5 Standout Shorts at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social is on right now. Packed with fascinating docos. www.mdff.org.au Now in cinema at @cinemanova.bsky.social My own Temple Lament is on July 27th 10.30am session followed by Q&A. It would be good to meet folks from Blue Sky there. Sarva Mangalam!
July 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social is on right now. Packed with fascinating docos. www.mdff.org.au Now in cinema at @cinemanova.bsky.social My own Temple Lament is on July 27th 10.30am session followed by Q&A. It would be good to meet folks from Blue Sky there. Sarva Mangalam!
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Not long back from Whoopee Blues, first night in cinema @mdff.bsky.social A real education for me as relative newcomer to Melbourne on the wild 70s in old Prahran. Crazy iterations of the eclectic band, with a side of Circus Oz. Very impressed that Jim Conway played harp with Brownie McGee.
July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Not long back from Whoopee Blues, first night in cinema @mdff.bsky.social A real education for me as relative newcomer to Melbourne on the wild 70s in old Prahran. Crazy iterations of the eclectic band, with a side of Circus Oz. Very impressed that Jim Conway played harp with Brownie McGee.
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Review: "Scars Unseen" screening July 16th at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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Review: 'Scars Unseen' - Documentary Drive
Healing rarely arrives with fanfare. Often, it’s quiet, cumulative, and deeply personal. In "Scars Unseen," filmmaker Meredith Yinger captures that reality with care and sensitivity, focusing not on t...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Review: "Scars Unseen" screening July 16th at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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www.documentarydrive.com/review-scars...
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Review: "Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice" screening online at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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Review: 'Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice' - Documentary Drive
Directed by Riccardo Servini, “Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice” is a thoughtful and deeply moving documentary that engages with one of the most pressing and polarizing developments in the world...
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July 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Review: "Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice" screening online at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social
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