Mardi Gras Film Festival Archives - Star Observer /category/artsentertainment/scene-events/mardi-gras-film-festival Setting Australia鈥檚 LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:19:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Mardi Gras Film Festival Archives - Star Observer /category/artsentertainment/scene-events/mardi-gras-film-festival 32 32 Goran Stolevski On Growing Up Gay In Melbourne And His New Film Housekeeping For Beginners /artsentertainment/goran-stolevski-on-growing-up-gay-in-melbourne-and-his-new-film-housekeeping-for-beginners/228689 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:19:21 +0000 /?p=228689 Goran Stolevski burst into the limelight when his debut narrative feature You Won’t Be Alone premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was selected as Australia’s entry for Best ...

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]]> The Nine Best Films To Watch At Mardi Gras Film Festival This Year /artsentertainment/screen/the-nine-best-films-to-watch-at-mardi-gras-film-festival-this-year/221303 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:14:16 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=221303 It鈥檚 going to be an exciting few weeks for film fans when Queer Screen’s聽30th Mardi Gras Film Festival聽gets underway from February 15 until March 2.聽 The festival, which screens the ...

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival Guide Magazine | February 2022 /latest-issues/mardi-gras-film-festival-guide-magazine-february-2022/210653 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:19:33 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=210653 The post Mardi Gras Film Festival Guide Magazine | February 2022 appeared first on Star Observer.

]]> Raw! Uncut! Video! A Love Story About Fetish Porn /news/raw-uncut-video-a-love-story-about-fetish-porn/210170 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:26:32 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=210170 鈥楻aw! Uncut! Video!鈥 – packaged as 鈥渁 love story about fetish porn鈥,聽 is an eye openingly raunchy documentary, lovingly crafted to tell the historically significant journey of Palm Drive Video. ...

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival Is Back /artsentertainment/mardi-gras-film-festival-is-back/209735 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 06:46:09 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=209735 The 29th Mardi Gras Film Festival is once again set to unspool the best of Queer cinema from around the world from February 17 until March 3. With 119 films ...

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]]> Breathtaking Film The Greenhouse Set To Stun Audiences /artsentertainment/breathtaking-film-the-greenhouse-set-to-stun-audiences/200728 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:30:26 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=200728 Premiering as part of this year鈥檚 Mardi Gras Film Festival is a locally produced work unlike any other. The Greenhouse details a family who some years ago witnessed the聽death of ...

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]]> Discover The Heartbreaking Backstory Of My Fiona /artsentertainment/filmmaker-kelly-walker-speaks-about-the-heartbreaking-backstory-of-my-fiona/200788 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:30:05 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=200788 Continuing Star Observer鈥檚 look at some of the films making their Australian debut at the forthcoming Mardi Gras Film Festival, we spoke with acclaimed Australian filmmaker Kelly Walker who is ...

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival Returns For Its 28th Year /artsentertainment/mardi-gras-film-festival-returns-for-its-28th-year/200696 Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:30:31 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=200696 Mardi Gras Film Festival is back for its 28th year, bringing audiences together again in what MGFF聽Director Lisa Rose describes as a “silver lining to the hideousness that was 2020.” ...

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival Guide Magazine | February 2021 /latest-issues/mardi-gras-film-festival-guide-magazine-february-2021/200141 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 03:05:49 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=200141 The post Mardi Gras Film Festival Guide Magazine | February 2021 appeared first on Star Observer.

]]> Jacki Weaver’s New Film To Debut This Weekend /artsentertainment/jacki-weavers-new-film-to-debut-this-weekend/197736 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:16:20 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=197736 This weekend Queer Screen Film Festival in Sydney and Melbourne Queer Film Festival will be debuting the new feel good film Stage Mother starring Jacki Weaver, Lucy Lui and Adrian ...

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]]> MGFF2019: The Blonde One World Premiere /photos/mgff2019-the-blonde-one-world-premiere/178371 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:58:08 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/photos/mgff2019-the-blond-one-world-premiere/178371 Event Cinemas George Street Tuesday February 26, 2019 Photographer: Ann-Marie Calilhanna

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019 /photos/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019/178206 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 06:29:31 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/photos/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019/178206 Event Cinemas George Street Thursday February 21, 2019 Photographer: Ann-Marie Calilhanna

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019 Opening Night /photos/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019-opening-night/177677 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:45:17 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/photos/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019-opening-night/177677 Event Cinemas George St Wednesday February 13, 2019 Photographer: Ann-Marie Calilhanna

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]]> ‘A love letter to gentle masculinity’: our interview with the director of Giant Little Ones /news/national-news/a-love-letter-to-gentle-masculinity-our-interview-with-the-director-of-giant-little-ones/177097 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:10:54 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=177097 "When you develop characters that are true, that are expressing something true about their own experience, it always finds a place in the world."

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]]> Community spotlight: getting to know community volunteer Phlan-Michelle Purss /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/community-spotlight-phlan-michelle-purss/177079 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:56:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=177079 "Within the LGBTIQ community I鈥檝e been volunteering for 30 years - ten years with Queer Screen and and 31 years with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras."

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]]> How the ‘gay, Indigenous, resistant’ Guatemalan film Jos茅 came together /news/international-news-news/how-the-gay-indigenous-resistant-guatemalan-film-jose-came-together/176824 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:56:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=176824 "Realities are made harsher by being poor, non-white, and gay... and having few opportunities. Finding a love relationship amongst all that, can be an impossible dream."

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]]> Win 1 of 12 double passes to the 2019 Mardi Gras Film Festival /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019-win-tickets-double-passes/176773 /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019-win-tickets-double-passes/176773#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2019 06:49:35 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=176773 Enter to win a double pass to this year's massive festival, featuring 120 films screening from February 13 to 28 in Sydney and select regional areas.

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]]> /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019-win-tickets-double-passes/176773/feed 1 Here are the Mardi Gras Film Festival director’s top five picks for 2019 /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/here-are-the-mardi-gras-film-festival-directors-top-five-festival-picks-in-2019/175762 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 05:52:36 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=175762 Including a Robert Mapplethorpe biopic, one of the "sexiest lesbian films" ever, and a lost gay classic that everyone should see.

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]]> Transphobic trolls flood documentary ‘TransMilitary’ with negative iTunes reviews /news/international-news-news/transphobic-trolls-flood-documentary-transmilitary-with-negative-itunes-reviews/175083 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:56:53 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=175083 The documentary, which screens at Mardi Gras Film Festival next month, has won numerous awards for exploring the lives of four trans troops across several years.

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]]> Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019 announces massive full program /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/mardi-gras-film-festival-2019-announces-massive-full-program/174946 Wed, 09 Jan 2019 06:25:42 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=174946 This year's festival features over 120 films, including stars like Molly Shannon, Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Matt Smith, as well as local documentaries focused on The Coming Back Out Ball and trans elder Colleen Young.

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