Special Edition - MIFF Is On The Move

The Melbourne International Film Festival Office Is Moving

Another part of Fitzroy's soul is being lost with the closure of the Erwin Rado Theatre and the moving of the MIFF office. After being located in Fitzroy for 15 odd years, the Festival has been given it's marching orders - the Rado is making way for yet another furniture shop on Johnston St, and the office space is being converted into a number of apartments.

Where is the Festival moving to? - to the city we march! After all, we do have Melbourne in our name and not Fitzroy! The Festival has been accepted as one of the tenents in the new 'City Village' concept being developed by the City of Melbourne. This concept is allowing not-for-profit organisations, such as MIFF, to either remain or to enter the city at an affordable rate. This is a great concept, especially in the current era of continually rising rental rates.

The new address for the Festival is:

New postal and contact details will be available in the contacts section of the Festival's website by mid December.

Garage Sale

As a result of the move into the city the Festival will be holding a 'Garage Sale' on the 6, 7, and 8 of Dec. As the new office has been left almost fully furnished, the Festival is needing to sell the bulk of our current office fit out. Up for sale will be the following:

Bookcases
Office desks
Filing cabinets
Ceiling fans
Pull down window blinds
An assortment of tables
Posters
An assortment of chairs
A Commander phone system
Plus a whole heap of other odds and ends.

If you have any questions please email the office miff@melbournefilmfestival.com.au and keep an eye on our website for any updates.

SUBSCRIBER GIVEAWAYS

September - 50 Two for One passes up for grabs

A new Australian film by Peter Carstairs, September is a humane, cinematic and intricately drawn coming-of-age story - a visually stunning character film about two 16 year old boys, one black, one white, whose pure and unaffected friendship begins to fall apart against the backdrop of a turbulent and pivotal moment in Australia's past.

Set in Western Australia in1968, Ed and Paddy have been best friends for as long as they can remember, having grown up together on Ed's family farm. They spend their afternoons together being boys; laughing, reading, smoking and then building their own make-shift boxing ring in the wheat fields where they spar each day and dream of future glories.

But Ed is white and Paddy is Aboriginal and the changing social and political climate threatens to fracture what was a rock solid friendship.

"An extraordinarily moving journey... this film will tear your heart out."
Margaret Pomeranz

Running time: 85 minutes, Distributor: Hopscotch, Rating: M
Release Date: 29 November, 2007
www.hopscotchfilms.com.au

For your chance to win one of fifty, Two for One passes, courtesy of Hopscotch, email your name and mailing address to griffen@melbournefilmfestival.com.au by 5pm, Friday 23 November. Please include September in the subject line. Only winners will be notified by return email.

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