FESTIVAL CLUB
VENUES Driven by Volkswagen 18–29 March 2009 www.mqff.com.au
POCKET GUIDE 2009
ALL SESSIONS (except Opening Night & Celluloid Casserole) screen at
Saddle up for a delicious meal, a quick snack, some coffee, a glass of wine (thanks to our Festival sponsors Train Trak Winery and Krombacher Beer). Hell, we’re even doing frozen daiquiris this year (three cheers for The Daiquiri Group!)
S T R E E T
S T R E E T
Atrium Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia
ENTRY
to ACMI Box Office,
F E D E R A T I O N Cinemas & Festival Club SQUARE Transport
See our trailer on the big screen in Federation Square throughout March
Melway 1B, P10
Champions
Festival
BMW Edge
club
Features
www.acmi.net.au
Drop in for a quick bite, linger with friends or just hit the beanbags and soak up the atmosphere. It’s the one-size-fits-all venue.
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s
Documentarie Shorts
Access limited
Opening Night S T
Awards
Melway 58, D8
www.astortheatre.com.au
R O A D
S T Windsor Hotel
S P R I N G
Loop 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne
S T P L A C E
B O U R K E
W I N D S O R
Celluloid Casserole
VOTING Voting forms are available at ACMI Cinemas and the Festival Club, or you can vote online at www.mqff.com.au. See p.11 of the Program for details of all awards.
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VIC
www.looponline.com.au
The Festival is offering a record $16,000 in cash prizes to deserving filmmakers. There’s five different audience choice awards up for grabs, all decided entirely on your vote.
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Parliament
Melway 1B, U6
Don’t miss your chance to decide the best of the Fest in 2009! Vote for the features, shorts or documentaries that had you sniggering, sobbing, sighing or sizzling.
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ASTO R
P L A C E
VIC
Windsor D A N D E N
C H A P E L
Astor Theatre cnr Chapel St & Dandenong Rd, St Kilda
M E Y E R S
The Festival Club opens half an hour before the first film of the day and is open til late every night – and even later on Friday and Saturday nights, where we bust out the DJs and good times. You’ll find the Festival Club in the Function Space of ACMI (ground floor, Flinders Street side – if you’re at the Box Office, take the escalators downstairs). Entry is free, so come on down!
Flinders Street Station
The MQFF Festival Club is the ideal spot to meet up with friends and kick back before your film screening.
S W A N S T O N
ACMI Cinemas 1 & 2 and ACMI Studio 1 Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne
F L I N D E R S Visitor Centre
LITTLE COLLINS ST
TICKETING Festival tickets available from: www.mqff.com.au
Our 24/7 online ticketing facility. Buy tickets, passes and festival memberships, download the program and much more!
ACMI Cinemas
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne. Open 10am–6pm (extended hours during Festival).
Hares & Hyenas
63 Johnston St, Fitzroy. Open Mon–Sat 10am–7pm, Sun 12–7pm.
For full ticketing information, see p.6 of the Program or visit www.mqff.com.au
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FESTIVAL PLANNER – VENUES – FESTIVAL CLUB – VOTING – TICKETS
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PLANNER 18–29 MARCH 2009 Opening &
SESSION START TIME SESSION NO. 3.15pm 35 I Can’t Think Straight
SESSION TITLE
p.34
PAGE NO. IN PROGRAM
WED
18 Thu
Boys’ Packages
Documentaries
Queeries
Special Presentations
Celluloid Casserole Lazy Lesbian’s Pass
10.15pm 59 Antarctica 10.30pm 60 Between Love and Goodbye FRI
27
Lazy Bugger’s Pass
6pm 61 Drifting Flowers
22
p.38
11.15am 29 Chris & Don: A Love Story Noon 30 Out Late + PANEL
p.59
8pm 3 Drifting Flowers
p.31
1pm 31 Short & Girly
p.66
1.15pm 32 Mom, I Didn’t Kill Your Daughter 3pm 33 An Island Calling
p.25 p.72
3pm 34 Watercolors
p.37
p.56
SAT
28
p.53
3.15pm 35 I Can’t Think Straight
p.34
p.25 p.24 p.26
p.31
p.40
11am 67 Boobtube 11.15am 68 ‘T’ is for Teacher Noon 69 Binding Words 1pm 70 The Baby Formula
p.45
p.41
p.27
10.15pm 66 The New Twenty
p.54
p.16
8pm 63 Save Me 10pm 65 Mulligans
p.68
p.19
6.15pm 62 Boystown 8.15pm 64 That Tender Touch
11am 28 Short & Burly
p.28
1.15pm 71 Drawn Out Love
p.43 p.38 p.39
p.70 p.57 p.53 p.25 p.30
6pm 7 Dog Tags
p.30
5.15pm 36 I Dreamt Under the Water
p.35
2pm 72 2 Mums and a Dad + PANEL
p.58
6pm 8 Steam (aka: Steamroom)
p.42
5.30pm 37 The Secrets
p.41
3pm 73 Tru Loved
p.44
8pm 9 Boobtube
p.70
7.30pm 38 Love for Share
p.37
3.15pm 74 For My Wife
p.55
p.29
8pm 39 Patrik, Age 1.5
p.39
5.15pm 75 Oz Shorts
p.64
5.30pm 76 Water Lilies
p.44
10pm 11 Short & Burly
21
Selectors’ Choice
6pm 2 Mulligans
8.30pm 10 Ciao
SAT
Girls’ Packages
6pm 1 Candy Rain
10.30pm 6 Lost Everything FRI
Centrepiece Presentations
Trans Package
6.15pm 56 To Faro 8.15pm 58 The Art of Being Straight
Oz Packages
Features
6pm 55 Ask Not 8pm 57 The Secrets
7.30pm ON Were the World Mine + OPENING NIGHT PARTY p.15
8.30pm 4 The Art of Being Straight 10pm 5 Cocktales
20
Closing
Director’s Choice Pass
SuN
19
26
p.68
10.15pm 40 The Lost Coast
p.36
10.30pm 12 Shank
p.41
10.30pm 41 Boystown
p.27
11am 13 Society 11.15am 14 Trans Phats
p.42
p.42 p.33
p.24
7.30pm 79 Filth and Wisdom 9.30pm 80 Champion
8.30pm 44 The Inmate
p.35
9.45pm 81 Dog Tags
p.30
8.45pm 45 Burn the Bridges
p.28
p.28
Noon 15 Sex Positive + PANEL
p.60
1pm 16 To Each Her Own
p.43
p.79
1.15pm 17 Ready? OK!
p.40
3.15pm 18 Oz Shorts
p.64
3.30pm 19 Ghosted
p.33
4pm 20 Queeries
p.80
5.15pm 21 Insatiable 5.30pm 22 Save Me 6.30pm 23 Looking for Romeo
p.55
7.15pm 24 Femme Fatalities 7.30pm 25 The New Twenty
p.74
9.15pm 26 Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon
p.57
9.30pm 27 Between Love and Goodbye
p.26
23
p.74
7.15pm 78 Steam (aka: Steamroom) 6pm 42 Candy Rain 6pm 43 All My Life
MON
6pm 77 Femme Fatalities
SuN
29
p.29
Noon 82 Fatherhood Dreams
p.54
Noon 83 Oz Docs
p.63
6pm 46 Jerusalem is Proud to Present
p.55
6pm 47 Fashion Victims
p.32
8pm 48 Ghosted
p.33
2pm 85 Queer Family Flicks – Kids’ Session
p.61
p.36
8.30pm 49 Born in 68
p.27
2pm 86 Short & Girly
p.66
p.40
10pm 50 Cocktales
p.72
p.39
TuE
24
WED
25
2.15pm 87 What Love Means
p.34
p.45
4pm 88 Power and the Passion
p.56 p.38
p.83
4pm 89 Mr. Right 6pm 90 The Lost Coast
p.26
6pm 91 Manuela and Manuel
p.37
6pm 51 The Other Side 7.30pm 52 Celluloid Casserole
p.17
8.15pm 53 Baby Love 10.15pm 54 Sex Drives & Videotape
12.15pm 84 I Can’t Think Straight
p.76
8.30pm CN Affinity + CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
p.36
p.20