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You’ll find the Festival Lounge in The Cube, ACMI galleries Level – if you’re at the Box Office, take the escalators downstairs.
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Festival Lounge opens half an hour before the first session of the day and is open til late every night – even later on Friday and Saturday nights, where we bust out the DJs and good tunes.
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Stay for a delicious meal, a quick snack, real coffee (made by real baristas), a glass of Barefoot wine or an award winning beer from the Mildura Brewery.
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It’s the one-size-fits-all venue – right in the centre of the Melbourne CBD. Drop in for a quick visit, linger with friends or just hit the couches and soak up the atmosphere.
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MQFF Festival Lounge is the ideal spot to meet up with friends and kick back before or after your film screening. It’s a bar, a restaurant, a lounge room and a late night club all rolled into one – and it’s all yours!
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ACMI CINEMAS Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne ACMI is our Festival hub, with our main screening cinemas, ticket purchase and collection, Festival Lounge and Opening and Closing Night parties.
2 GREATER UNION MELBOURNE CITY CINEMAS
131 Russell Street, Melbourne Greater Union Russell St is our secondary screening venue. Tickets booked online for sessions at Greater Union must be picked up from ACMI.
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23 Meyers Place, Melbourne Loop is our Celluloid Casserole screening venue.
Voting
Check our website for the full list of prizes.
Don’t miss your chance to decide the best of the Fest in 2012!
Thanks to our generous sponsors The Cullen Hotel, and Bang & Olufsen Collins Street.
The Festival is offering over $12,000 in cash prizes to deserving filmmakers. There’s four different audience choice awards up for grabs, all decided entirely on your vote! So release your inner Margaret or David and let us know your favourite features, shorts or documentaries.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
ABN 47 483 109 783
Office: Level 8, 225 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Postal: PO Box 21244, Little Lonsdale Street VIC 8011Australia Phone +61 3 9662 4147
Fax +61 3 9660 3950
Email info@mqff.com.au
Vote online at www.mqff.com.au or grab a voting form available at all our screening venues and the Festival Lounge. For full details of all awards, see page 9 of the Program.
15-25 March 2012
Pocket Guide Festival Planner & Venues Map plus information on Festival Lounge, Voting for Awards and the Festival Raffle
Festival Planner SESSION START TIME
PAGE NO. IN PROGRAM
SESSION NUMBER
Thursday 15 March 7.30pm
Gala Event
ON Cloudburst + Opening Night Party
Friday 16 March
Lazy Lesbians
9.30pm p.12
SCREENING VENUE Lazy Buggers
61 Private Romeo
SESSION TITLE
p.42
SPECIAL TICKETING INFO SHORT & TWEET SESSIONS
6pm
01 Break My Fall
6pm
02 Going Down in La La Land
p.29
8.15pm
03 The Evening Dress
p.28
8.15pm
04 Eating Out 5: The Open Weekend
p.27
p.23
Feature/Documentary
Shorts Package
Session with Panel
Monday 19 March 32 Suicide Room
p.44
8pm
33 Fake Orgasm
9pm
34 Our Paradise
2pm
09 East Bloc Love
2pm
10 The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
3.30pm
11 Circumstance
3.30pm
12 For 80 Days
6pm
13 August
Lazy Buggers
14 Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same 8.15pm
15 Joe + Belle
8.15pm
16 Gun Hill Road
Lazy Trans
Directors Choice
Lazy Lesbians Lazy Trans
p.39 p.63
Saturday 24 March 2pm
67 Queeries 2
STUDIO p.52 p.76
STUDIO p.86
68 Oz Docs
p.65 p.40
p.50
6.15pm
36 Absent Centrepiece Presentation
69 The Mountain
p.14
4pm
6.30pm
37 Daphne
70 Illegal Love
p.24
p.26
4pm
p.61
p.28
8pm
38 The Green
71 Queer As Fxxk
p.30
4.15pm
p.81
p.21
8.15pm
39 Tomboy
72 Transformations
p.44
6pm
p.66
p.25
8.30pm
40 Four More Years
73 Oz Shorts
p.29
6pm
p.45
10pm
41 Rent Boys
74 What Happens Next
p.54
8pm
75 With Every Heartbeat
p.45
8.15pm
p.35
Directors Choice
Lazy Buggers
Lazy Trans
Wednesday 21 March
p.31 6pm
42 We Were Here Centrepiece Presentation
p.15
6.30pm
43 Love Actually…Sucks
p.37
7.30pm
44 Celluloid Casserole
8pm
45 Beauty
8.30pm
46 Jitters
Sunday 18 March STUDIO p.85 p.74
2pm
21 Help! We’ve Got A Gay in The Class
2pm
22 Personal Stories
p.89
2.15pm
23 Kawa
p.35
4pm
24 Photos of Angie
4pm
25 Cancerpants
4.15pm
26 Let My People Go!
6pm
27 My Last Round
6.15pm
28 With Every Heartbeat
8pm
29 So Hard To Forget
8.30pm
30 Private Romeo
Directors Choice
10.15pm 47 The Advocate For Fagdom
STUDIO p.58
Lazy Lesbians
p.70
2.15pm
p.38
Lazy Buggers
p.42
10.30pm 62 Cocktales
p.34
2pm
p.70
12.15pm 20 Short & Girly
Lazy Buggers
p.24
p.33
10.15pm 18 Man At Bath
19 Queeries 1
61 Private Romeo
p.27
35 Insects in The Backyard
10.15pm 17 Cocktales
Midday
p.25
9.30pm
Lazy Lesbians
6pm
STUDIO p.57
6.15pm
Tuesday 20 March
p.55
60 Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
12.15pm 66 Boobtube
6.15pm
Lazy Lesbians
8.15pm
p.42
p.72
08 Wish Me Away
59 Jamie And Jessie Are Not Together
65 The Cure: A Documentary Film
10.30pm 06 Sex Drives & Videotape
1.15pm
58 Circumstance
8pm
Midday
p.32
p.53
6.30pm
p.35
p.53
31 Harvest
Directors Choice
57 eCupid: Love On The Download
64 Hollywood To Dollywood
6pm
07 Hit So Hard
6.15pm
Midnight
p.55
11am
56 Joe + Belle
10.15pm 63 Mommy is Coming
10.15pm 05 Sexing The Transman
Saturday 17 March
Friday 23 March 6pm
STUDIO p.59
76 August
p.21
10.30pm 77 Short & Burly
p.68
10.30pm 78 Kink Crusaders
p.54
Sunday 25 March
p.91 p.22
12.15pm 79 Femme Fatalities
p.34
2pm
80 Queeries 3
p.50
2pm
81 Still Around
2.15pm
82 Becoming Chaz
4pm
83 The Call
p.24
4.15pm
84 Morgan
p.40
6pm
85 Mix Tape
6.15pm
86 Romeos
8.30pm
CN Leave It On The Floor + Closing Night Party
Thursday 22 March
p.78
STUDIO p.87 Lazy Trans
p.61 p.51
6pm
48 An Ordinary Family
p.41
STUDIO p.60
6.15pm
49 Vito Selectors’ Choice
p.17
p.52
6.30pm
50 Break My Fall
p.23
p.36
8pm
51 So Hard To Forget
p.43
p.41
8.15pm
52 Off Beat Centrepiece Presentation
p.45
9pm
53 The Green
p.30
10.15pm 54 Short & Burly
Monday 26 March
p.43
p.68
p.42
10.15pm 55 Sex Drives & Videotape
p.72
87, 88, 89, 90 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: We rescreen the 4 most popular sessions from the Festival. Check our website for details.
Directors Choice
Lazy Buggers
p.16
Lazy Trans
p.82 Gala Event
p.43 p.18