Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 2)
We speak to Critics Campus alumni Aimee Knight (2016 cohort), Conor Bateman (2015 cohort) and Claire Cao (2019 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
18 May 2023
Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 1)
We speak to Critics Campus alumni Michael Sun (2019 cohort), Isabella Trimboli (2019 cohort) and David Heslin (2015 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
MIFF Staff
04 May 2023
Critics Campus: Q&A with Debbie Zhou & Jessica Kiang
We speak to Debbie Zhou and Jessica Kiang about their experiences as mentee and mentor, respectively, during MIFF 2018’s Critics Campus.
MIFF Staff
20 Mar 2023
The Act of Articulation: An Interview with Tony Ayres
Critics Campus participant James Walsh speaks to The Home Song Stories director Tony Ayres about exposing the personal, the power of storytelling and what’s next for the screen.
James Walsh
29 Aug 2022
Glitter Gore and Magical Madness: An Interview with Hannah Barlow
Critics Campus participant Lamya Nawar speaks to Hannah Barlow about self-awareness, self-forgiveness, and the power and perils of social media, as tackled in the pop-horror film Sissy.
Lamya Nawar
28 Aug 2022
Remembering the Radical: An Interview with John Hughes
Critics Campus participant Digby Houghton speaks to Senses of Cinema co-director John Hughes about subversion, collective filmmaking and historiography.
Digby Houghton
27 Aug 2022
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Interview with Alena Lodkina
Critics Campus participant Andrew Fraser speaks to Petrol writer/director Alena Lodkina about creative synergies, cultural cringe and challenging audiences to watch films as co-creators.
Andrew Fraser
26 Aug 2022
A Film That Talks: An Interview with Beck Cole
Critics Campus participant Lily Rodgers speaks to director Beck Cole about collaboration, revelation and transformative storytelling as embodied in the dynamic anthology We Are Still Here.
Lily Rodgers
25 Aug 2022
Funny Pages – Four Ways
Owen Kline’s coming-of-age black comedy Funny Pages gets the critical treatment from four of our 2022 Critics Campus participants: Andrew Fraser, Ellen O’Brien, Lamya Nawar and Brooke Heinz.
24 Aug 2022
Your Money, My Problem: Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies
Critics Campus participant Ellen O’Brien reflects on the entanglement of fascination, aspiration and alienation when watching screen portrayals of wealth, using Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies as her jumping-off point.
Ellen O’Brien
23 Aug 2022
Sissy – Four Ways
Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes’s Sissy receives some critical attention from four of our 2022 Critics Campus participants: Isabelle Carney, James Walsh, Digby Houghton and Lily Rodgers.
22 Aug 2022
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