Melbourne Doco Fest / Naarm Doco Film Fest

TEMPLE LAMENT Bereep-Bereep is the Indigenous name for Mount Cole. It translates as ‘wild’ in the language of the Beeripmo balug group of the Djab wurrung people.…

Here's a link to my short film Temple Lament that was shown at the UNFIX NYC 2025 Film Festival and at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566

Film Poster

Post-screening Q&A with the afternoon session's filmmakers. Photo by Neil Grant.

The filmmaker at the festival. Photo by Neil or Amanda Grant.

Thanks everyone who came to the premier of KNOW ME at the @mdff.bsky.social (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival) last Sunday afternoon. There were tears, heart warming embraces, reunions too and discussion that flowed from Cinema Nova's foyer onto a nearby pub and into the evening back home.

Review: 'Expression of Illness' - Documentary Drive With "Expression of Illness," filmmaker Bryn Silverman offers an intimate glimpse into her experience with thyroid cancer, crafting a short documentary that unfolds like a personal diary—raw, reflecti...

Review: "Expression of Illness" screening online at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social

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First time seeing Temple Lament on the big screen @mdff.bsky.social Good to see the space and the detail in the film, to have a live audience, to discuss the movie at the Q&A with 3CR's Annie McLaughlin, and the young director of Verge Collection, another of the films at the session. Fun time.

Noongar Elders’ stories drive award-winning Black Cockatoo film A Perth filmmaker has taken out the top award at this year's Australia Youth Film Festival, held in Melbourne on Friday night. Dannon Wu, 24, won the ABC Best Overall Film award for 'Black Cockatoos: Cultural Significance,' a documentary centred on an Elders Yarning Circle.

A Perth filmmaker has taken out the top award at this year's Australia Youth Film Festival, held in Melbourne on Friday night. Dannon Wu, 24, won the ABC Best Overall Film award for 'Black Cockatoos: Cultural Significance,' a documentary centred on an Elders Yarning Circle.

Reflections of Courage - FilmInk Distressing, powerful and thought-provoking…

Screening at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, REFLECTIONS OF COURAGE is "Distressing, powerful and thought-provoking…" according to Annette Basile's review

Is Our Empathy Dying in the Digital Age? - FilmInk The Longer You Bleed (2025): When screens numb the soul

The Longer You Bleed filmmaker Ewan Waddell writes about the over-riding themes of his documentary, when screens numb the soul.

The Longer You Bleed screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

Review: 'Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice' - Documentary Drive Directed by Riccardo Servini, “Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice” is a thoughtful and deeply moving documentary that engages with one of the most pressing and polarizing developments in the world...

I really appreciate this thoughtful review of Dwarf Story from Documentary Drive in Australia. They really got the film! Thank you.

The film is available for two more weeks for audiences in Australia as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

www.documentarydrive.com/review-dwarf...

Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2025) - Film Review

The best guitarist you've never heard of finally gets her due in: 'Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine' screening as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. My review:

www.weekendnotes.com/goddess-of-s...

The Definition of Happiness - FilmInk … fun, upbeat ...

What's the definition of happiness?

It's in the title of new Australian documentary.

Annette Basile reviews.

The Definition of Happiness screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

Join me on Sunday 27 July at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival for the first public screening of KNOW ME at Cinema Nova, 12:20 PM, Carlton, Melbourne. Booking details in bio link. KNOW ME is one of several incredible short films being screened at that session. It's going to be great!

Beauty of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River showcased at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival The natural and cultural values of the Kimberley's Martuwarra Fitzroy River was showcased to a Naarm audience recently, when powerful nature documentary Lifeblood premiered at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

The natural and cultural values of the Kimberley's Martuwarra Fitzroy River was showcased to a Naarm audience recently, when powerful nature documentary Lifeblood premiered at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

The Nicholas Building - FilmInk The film’s contents may lack the polish or shape, but its tactility – its sounds, colours and characters – are what makes The Nicholas Building priceless.

Melbourne's iconic Nicholas Building gets its own documentary.,

The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall

Love in the Walls - FilmInk ... important, fairly hopeful and very watchable ...

Annette Basile reviews LOVE IN THE WALLS, closing night film at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

🎬 The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

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🎬 The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

🎟️ Browse the full lineup + get tickets here: watch.eventive.org/mdff
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/events/melbo...
🎟️ imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/the-lo...
#MDFFest #DocumentaryFilm #MelbourneFilmFestival #SupportIndieFilm

Left Behind follows a group of bold NYC moms fighting for the first public dyslexic school in America’s largest district. Three years. One mission: justice in education. 🎓 Don’t miss the MDFF screening — July 30, 8:50pm, Cinema Nova.
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova

Left Behind follows a group of bold NYC moms fighting for the first public dyslexic school in America’s largest district. Three years. One mission: justice in education. 🎓 Don’t miss the MDFF screening — July 30, 8:50pm, Cinema Nova.
#MDFF2025 #LeftBehindDoc #DyslexiaAwareness #cinemanova

Don’t miss Union at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, July 29, 9:10pm at Cinema Nova! This powerful Sundance doc follows Chris Smalls and workers fighting Amazon for labor rights, capturing their historic union win. #MDFFest #MDFFest2025 #UnionDoc
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...

Don’t miss Union at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, July 29, 9:10pm at Cinema Nova! This powerful Sundance doc follows Chris Smalls and workers fighting Amazon for labor rights, capturing their historic union win. #MDFFest #MDFFest2025 #UnionDoc
🎟️ www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mdff-u...

Review: 5 Standout Shorts at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival - Documentary Drive At this year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, the short documentary category is anything but small. With 9 dedicated Shorts Sessions and shorts screening alongside many of the features at Cinema...

Review: 5 Standout Shorts at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social

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Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social is on right now. Packed with fascinating docos. www.mdff.org.au Now in cinema at @cinemanova.bsky.social My own Temple Lament is on July 27th 10.30am session followed by Q&A. It would be good to meet folks from Blue Sky there. Sarva Mangalam!

Not long back from Whoopee Blues, first night in cinema @mdff.bsky.social A real education for me as relative newcomer to Melbourne on the wild 70s in old Prahran. Crazy iterations of the eclectic band, with a side of Circus Oz. Very impressed that Jim Conway played harp with Brownie McGee.

Review: 'Scars Unseen' - Documentary Drive Healing rarely arrives with fanfare. Often, it’s quiet, cumulative, and deeply personal. In "Scars Unseen," filmmaker Meredith Yinger captures that reality with care and sensitivity, focusing not on t...

Review: "Scars Unseen" screening July 16th at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social

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Review: 'Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice' - Documentary Drive Directed by Riccardo Servini, “Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice” is a thoughtful and deeply moving documentary that engages with one of the most pressing and polarizing developments in the world...

Review: "Dwarf Story: Little People, Big Choice" screening online at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social

www.documentarydrive.com/review-dwarf...

Review: 'Her Shark Story' - Documentary Drive Beneath the turquoise skin of the Pacific, the world slows down. Light bends. Giants drift silently. Directed by Ignacio Walker and Denis Arqueros, “Her Shark Story” captures that sense of oceanic rev...

Review: "Her Shark Story" screening July 17th at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social

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This NAIDOC Week, we honour the strength, resilience, and ongoing contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 🖤💛❤️
One powerful way to engage is through story — raw, unfiltered, and made by mob.
🎥 Take the time to watch Indigenous-made documentaries. Share their truths.

This NAIDOC Week, we honour the strength, resilience, and ongoing contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 🖤💛❤️
One powerful way to engage is through story — raw, unfiltered, and made by mob.
🎥 Take the time to watch Indigenous-made documentaries. Share their truths.

Little fix on our artwork. We'll be making short films collaboratively next weekend part of documentary month for the 10-year anniversary of @mdff.bsky.social. Director or Cast and crew ticks available. hop on the many shorts being produced. #KinoKabaret #documentary #filmmaking #indiefilm

Review: 'NAFADA: An Audio Uprising' - Documentary Drive What does it sound like when defiance becomes music? In "NAFADA: An Audio Uprising," director Reginald Tiessen explores the urgency, frustration, and fierce creativity of female artists confronting si...

Review: "NAFADA: An Audio Uprising" screening and masterclass July 21st at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social

www.documentarydrive.com/review-nafad...