VENUES
All Sessions (except Opening Night & Celluloid Casserole) ACMI Cinemas and ACMI Screen Pit, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
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Featuring funky toons, delicious hot food, great coffee and assorted bevvies, including the products of our beloved grog sponsors Train Trak and Matilda Bay.
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See our trailer on the big screen in Federation Square throughout March
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Located in the Function Space at ACMI Cinemas, ground floor off the Flinders Street entrance (if you’re at the Box Office, take the escalators downstairs), the Festival Club is open 30 minutes before the first session everyday.
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Meet up with your friends before or after the film at our fabulous Festival Club. It’s free and open to all!
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But wait, there’s more! Returning once again in ‘08 is our world famous Presidential Mix of the finest mixed lollies we can lay our hands on.
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Festival Club is the place to be seen during MQFF 08!
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All venues wheelchair accessible (Astor is limited)
OPENING NIGHT Astor Theatre cnr Chapel St & Dandenong Rd, St Kilda
Voting is easy – voting forms are available in the Festival Club throughout the Festival, or you can vote online at www.melbournequeerfilm.com.au.
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The MQFF offers several cash awards valued at over $10,000. We urge you to take part in awarding that cash to deserving filmmakers by voting for your favourite feature, documentary, short film or Australian short in our Audience Choice Awards. See p.15 for full details.
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CELLULOID CASSEROLE Loop 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne
ACMI >
www.melbournequeerfilm.com.au
SESSION NO. 8.15 10
A Four Letter Word
weD 5
7.30 ON
thursday 6
SESSION TITLE
6.00 1
Breakfast With Scot
p.24
PAGE NO. p.16
Oz Docs 1
p.55
12.15 28
Short & Burly
p.68
2.00 29 Trans Shorts 2.00 30 Anger Me 2.15 31
Tied Hands
4.00 32
Queeries 1
p.76
4.00 33
She’s a Boy I Knew
p.53
4.15 34
Short & Girly
p.64
6.00 35
Finn’s Girl
p.29
2
Kiss The Bride
8.00 3 The Man Of My Life 8.15 4 The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters
One To Another
p.36 p.34
10.15
6
Cocktales
p.71
6.00
7
Outing Riley
p.35
6.15
8
2.00 16
Projecting the Body
p.61
2.15 17
Butch Jamie
p.26
4.00 18
Hullabaloo
p.52
4.00 19
Oz Shorts
p.62
4.15 20
Tick Tock Lullaby
p.40
6.00 21 Shelter Me 6.15 22
Times Have Been Better
8.00 23 Vivere
p.39 p.41 p.42
p.58
p.28
6.00 75
Oz Shorts
p.62
6.15 76
Out At The Wedding
p.35 p.33
6.00 43
Before I Forget
8.15 78
A Four Letter Word
p.24
6.15 44
Dolls
p.28
10.00 79
The Shadows
p.38
10.15 80
Poltergay
p.36
12.00 81
Short & Girly
p.64
The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters
12.00 82 The World Unseen
p.48
Daddy’s Love + Mommy Mommy
6.00 48 8.15 50
Rome & Juliet
p.37
2.15 85
One To Another
p.34
8.30 51
Spinnin’ (6 Billion Different People)
p.40
4.00 86
I Know That I Am
p.52
4.00 87
Oz Docs 2
p.55
6.00 52
Spider Lilies
p.20
4.15 88
Love My Life
p.32
7.30 53
Celluloid Casserole
p.79
6.00 89
Bam Bam & Celeste
p.25
8.15 54
Shelter Me
p.39
6.15 90
The Man Of My Life
p.32
My Super 8 Season
p.33
8.30 CN
XXY
p.18
6.15 49 Clapham Junction
10.15 55
p.27 p.27
2.00 83
p.51
2.00 84 Inlaws and Outlaws + PANEL
p.59
+ CLOSING NIGHT PARTY 6.00 56 The Birthday + Transvestites Also Cry 6.00 57
Vivere
p.23
Opening + Closing
Centrepiece Presentation
Selectors’ Choice
Sonja
p.39
Features
Documentaries
Special Presentations
Oz Shorts + Docs
Girls’ Shorts
Boys’ Shorts
Trans Shorts + Docs
Queeries
Celluloid Casserole
p.38
10.15 25
In Search Of The Wild Kingdom
p.31
10.15 60
You Belong To Me
p.48
10.15 26
The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome
p.61
10.30 61
Bears
p.50
8.30 59
session colour coding
p.42 p.37
8.15 58 Saturn In Opposition
Shelter
8.15 24
Through Thick and Thin + PANEL
tuesday 11
p.30
2.00 71
p.77
wed 12
Holding Trevor
p.67
The New World
p.71
12.15 15
Boobtube
2.00 70 Queeries 2
8.00 77
Cocktales
Born Again
12.15 69
p.25
10.15 47
12.00 14
p.53
p.48
8.15 10
p.50
Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey
The World Unseen
p.47
p.59
12.00 68
3.00 42
p.39
No Magic Bullet + HIV PANEL
p.34
Times Have Been Better
The Witnesses
12.00 13
One Night Stand
1.00 41
Sonja
p.29
10.15 67
p.41
8.15 46
The Gay Bed & Breakfast Of Terror
p.47
p.57
8.15 45
10.15 12
Whirlwind
Trans Docs
p.67
p.68
10.00 66
4.15 74 The Curiosity Of Chance
p.33
p.24
p.38
4.00 73
Boobtube Short & Burly
p.42
p.30
The New World A Four Letter Word
p.32
8.00 64 Vampire Diary 8.15 65 Shelter
p.47
8.00 9 10.00 11
Love My Life
Whirlwind
p.27
Poltergay
6.15 63
p.29
10.30 40 The Houseboy
5
p.31
2.15 72 Finn’s Girl
10.00 39
10.15
Kiss The Bride
p.26
p.31
p.36
6.00 62
8.15 38 The Bubble
p.32
monday 10
6.15
p.35
THURSDAY 13
SATURDAY 8
FRIDAY 7
8.00 37
Out At The Wedding
p.49 p.41
6.15 36 The Picture Of Dorian Gray
+ OPENING NIGHT PARTY
p.72
friday 14
SESSION START TIME
12.00 27
saturday 15
PLANNER
sunday 16
2008
sunday 9
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