Sunday Arts Magazine

15 Nov 2020

Spiro Economopoulos talks to David about this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival

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Spiro Economopoulos talks to David about this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Over 50 queer films will be screened this month as part of Melbourne Queer Film
Festival’s MQFF Interrupted – streaming from 19 – 30 November 2020.
MQFF Interrupted will be the festival’s largest ever online offering, with 17 features and
40 shorts being made available to Australian viewers wanting to see some of the best
LGBTIQ content from Australian and international filmmakers.
Tickets go on general sale on Friday 6 November 2020.
For viewers in Melbourne, MQFF Interrupted will also be holding a special event
screening at the Village Drive-In in Coburg of romantic comedy Happiest Season, starring
festival favourite Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. The Melbourne premier of the
film will mark the first in-person event since the 30th festival was cut short in March due
to coronavirus.
MQFF CEO Maxwell Gratton said MQFF Interrupted will be an opportunity for a larger
range of audiences to experience content that shares the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, intersex and queer communities.
“Our online offering not only allows our audiences in Melbourne to experience some of
the best queer content, it has also made us accessible to audiences who usually were not
able to join us in cinema, such as those located in regional and rural areas of Victoria, or
those outside of the state,” said Maxwell.
MQFF is also closed captioning many features and shorts for the festival – truly making
the festival accessible to all.
Program Director Spiro Economopoulos said the program for MQFF Interrupted will
make available some new content, and content that either was not able to screened or
only had a limited run at #MQFF30 in March.
“While our program in March was interrupted due to coronavirus, this is an opportunity
to explore a range of stories that capture the diversity of queer culture right from the
comfort of your own living room.”

Viewers will be able to treat themselves to a range of film features including: Georgian
romantic drama And Then We Danced; Australian coming out comedy Ellie & Abbie
(And her dead aunt); romantic drama Lingua Franca, the first to be written and
directed by a trans woman of colour; Bit, the queer community’s answer to The Lost
Boys; and the mysterious seductive love story End of the Century.
MQFF’s popular shorts packages will also be screened during MQFF Interrupted,
including Documentary Shorts; the raunchy Hooking Up and Laws of Desire shorts;
Transformations which explores stories of our trans and gender non-binary
communities; Animation Shorts and Asia-Pacific Shorts.
The full program is available on mqff.com.au

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