MIFF Festival Program Released!

The 2008 MIFF Festival Program was released yesterday morning (Friday 11 July)! If you missed your copy of the Guide in The Age then check it all out HERE on our website. Single tickets, festival passes and Opening & Closing Night tickets are available for purchase NOW.

Phone bookings on (03) 03 9662 3722.

The MIFF Box Office will be operating from the Forum - 154 Flinders St (cnr Russell St) from Monday 14 July.

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Melbourne Citymission

Melbourne International Film Festival is a proud supporter of Melbourne Citymission’s Homelessness Campaign 2008. YOU can support them too.

On Friday 8 August run a PJ Day, Winter Sleepout or a morning tea and sell some of their very cool badges.

Check out www.melbournecitymission.org.au/homelessness to register or for more information.

Charity Screening

MIFF’s Charity Partner, the Melbourne Citymission, have an annual Homeless Campaign to raise money for the 23,000 Victorians who are homeless each night.

MIFF, with the help of the Rooftop Cinema & Rialto Films, are doing their bit to raise some money and awareness, with a special outdoor Festival screening of the Rialto Film, ‘YOUNG @ HEART’ at the Rooftop Cinema. Come snuggle up under a blanket, under the stars! Enjoy a treat from the Rooftop BBQ, mulled wine or a hot chocolate and let that warm fuzzy feeling of doing something good keep the winter chills away!

Ticket & blanket hire proceeds will go straight to the Melbourne Citymission's 2008 Homelessness Campaign.

Wednesday 30 July

Doors will open at 6pm, Film at 7pm

Rooftop Cinema, Level 6, 252 Swanston Street

Film ticket $20, Film & Blanket Hire $25

As this is a Charity event Festival passes & Member prices do NOT apply.

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE!

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Virgin Blue & Blue Holidays MIFF Packages

Got your tickets to the hottest event this winter? Blue Holidays, the holiday program of Virgin Blue, can keep you front-row and centre for this must-see event. Packages include return airfares to Melbourne and accommodation. Book now at virginblue.com.au/melbournefilm.

Interstate MIFF Package to be won!

The 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival is just around the corner and we are lucky enough to have a fabulous Interstate Festival Holiday Prize to give away.

The prize is for 2 people and includes return flights from any Australian capital city to Melbourne flying Virgin Blue during the Festival, return Skybus travel from Melbourne Airport to Melbourne city, one night's accommodation, a $50 dining voucher at The Carlton Hotel and of course, tickets to the Festival (5 doubles).

For your chance to win one Interstate MIFF Package, email your name and mailing address to griffen@melbournefilmfestival.com.au by Tuesday 15 July, 12noon. Please include "Interstate" in the subject line. Winners will be notified by email.

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CAE Offer

What course would you do?

At CAE we specialise in beginners courses, designed for interested CAE devotees who just love to learn. So try something new this winter. Yoga, Italian Conversation, Acting, Machine Sewing, Belly Dancing, Guitar, Singing, Painting or Graphic Design.

CAE is offering a $100 Gift Voucher towards a course of your choice. With hundreds of courses on offer the hardest decision will choosing which one to do first! What course would you do?

To find out more, visit www.cae.edu.au or call 9652 0611 to enrol now!

For your chance to win one of five $100 CAE Gift Vouchers, email your name and mailing address to griffen@melbournefilmfestival.com.au by Monday 14 July, 12noon. Please include "CAE" in the subject line. Winners will be notified by email.

The Bank Job!

Melbourne International Film Festival & Paramount present an advance screening of ‘The Bank Job’ with an exclusive introduction by special guest, Jason Statham (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Collateral), in his only Melbourne appearance.

This is a Members Only screening HOWEVER the distributor has released additional seats for MIFF and we would like to extend an invitation to our Widescreen subscribers to join us. All tickets for Widescreen Subscribers are $15.00 (no booking fee). Each Widescreen subscriber may purchase up to two tickets at this price. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. ENTRY MAY BE REFUSED TO LATECOMERS.

MIFF Members can purchase tickets for themselves and one guest at the special Member's price of $12.00 per ticket (no booking fee).

Sunday 13 July, 2008

2.45pm for 3:15pm start

Forum Theatre

154 Flinders St, Melbourne

The Bank Job

Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays.

THE BANK JOB is based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery that was never properly told – the result of a Government ‘D’ Notice, gagging the press.

Martine (Saffron Burrows) offered Terry (Jason Statham) a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London’s Baker Street. The thieves tunnelled into the vault of a bank and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewellery worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared.

THE BANK JOB reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.

Running Time: 111 mins (TBC), Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Rating: TBA,
Only at the movies from July 31
Website: www.bankjobmovie.co.uk

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