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Have you ever been bored at a film festival? We have and we love film. It has been over 80 years since Venice held the world’s first film festival in 1932, and there’s still never been a compelling re-evaluation of how to showcase films to a festival going audience. The promotion of art should never be let to grow stagnant.

Embarking on its third year, The ReelGood Film Festival is an an extension of Melbourne-based website, ReelGood.com.au. The film festival is on ongoing celebration of Australian cinema, and together we look at the redefinition of the film festival experience. Removing the barrier between the film, the filmmaker, the festival and the audience, RGFF is a platform for the Australian community of filmmakers and talent to be recognised across the country. We’re not reinventing the wheel, we’re re-evaluating it.

RGFF explores the idea of showcasing short films spanning over the course of a day, not a session, with breaks, grog, tunes and good eats serving as intermissions for the mind. Short film sessions at festivals can be oppressively long, and we’re forced to invest in sometimes 15+ films over the course of them. It’s exhausting. Not anymore.

Film is universal and yet it often becomes an industry that engenders exclusivity. One of the central goals of RGFF is to open up the world of film festivals for people who might normally shy away from them, without sacrificing the integrity of the films being showcased. You don’t need to be a critic to love cinema. You just have to love cinema.

 

OPENING NIGHT

 Fell (dir. Kasimir Burgess)

“Fell is not only the finest Australian film to be produced in many years, but simply one of the finest films ReelGood has had the pleasure of encountering in a very long time. Burgess’ sophisticated handling of his material belies his limited feature film experience. It is a rare but wonderful film that manages to be aware enough of its own strengths to pursue every avenue perfectly. Fell is one of those films.”

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Q&A with director Kasimir Burgess and writer Natasha Pincus

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MAIN FESTIVAL DAY

(FILMS SCREENING FROM 10AM ONWARDS)

CINEMAS 1 & 2:

There Is No Such Thing As A Jellyfish (dir. Alena Lodkina)

Rocketman (dir. Sophie Hayward)

Lily (dir. Kasimir Burgess)

Weekend Getaway at Riddells Creek (dir. Jacintho Muiños and Jess Langley)

The Cosmonaut (dir. Sophie Hayward)

Cake Industries (dir. Jack Dyball)

Furniture Friend (dir. Sam Darby)

Our Magic Hour (dir. Sam Rogers)

You Like It, I Love It (dir. James Vaughan)

Love and a Tandem (dir. Ariel Shaw)

The Space Between Words (dir. Lara Kose)

Hungry Man (dir. Jordan Prosser)

Looking To Buy (dir. Isaac Wall)

Double Patty (dir. Tavis Urquhart and Alexander Moore)

Maalu (dir. Sanjay De Silva)

Family Holiday (dir. Ted Wilson)

The Family (dir. Jayden Stevens)

For The Love Of Dog (dir. Carl Stella)

Alight (dir. Tenika Smith)

Building Bridges (dir. Jessica Barclay Lawton)

Euxine (dir. Tess Hutson)

 CINEMAS 3 & 4: 

Going Up (dir. Tavis Urquhart and Patrick Neff) WINNER OF BEST SHORT FILM, 2014

Three Poems (dir. Jake Houston Harris) WINNER OF AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, 2014

We Keep On Dancing (dir. Jessica Barclay Lawton) WINNER OF BEST SHORT FILM, 2015

Bush Trip (dir. Kathleen Lee) WINNER OF AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, 2015

Breathe (dir. Sam Rogers) WINNER OF MOST EXCITING TALENT, 2015

Touch Wood (dir. Sherwin Akbarzadeh)

Kings (dir. Charlie Ford and Tom Neill)

Body Movie (dir. Jordan Prosser)

Meat Dad (dir. Damon Girbon and Paul Ritchard and Kristen Krauth and Vincent Trundle)

Ten Quintillion (dir. Romilly Spears)

Men of the Earth (dir. Andrew Kavanagh)

Draft Day (dir. Alexander Moore)

Carcass (dir. Tarquin Netherway)

Carnivore (dir. Sam Rogers)

The River (dir. Tarquin Netherway)

+ Heaps of music videos from some of Melbourne’s most exciting filmmaking talent!

+ BUM: Seven Days on the Streets of Melbourne – FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY CALLUM PADGHAM AND TAVIS URQUHART

 

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–  The best music this side of the Mississipi!

– Cheap drinks!!

– Great food!!!

– Free stuff for you to take home and keep!!!!

FILM SCREENINGS KICK OFF AT 10AM

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