MQFF 2012 Pocket Guide

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Raffle The annual Festival Raffle is full of fabulous gifts for you, and helps the MQFF continue our work. Visit the Festival Lounge or flag down a Festival vollie to get your tickets.

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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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23 Meyers Pl

Melway 1B, U6 www.looponline.com.au

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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.

3 LOOP

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


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