MQFF 2012 Pocket Guide

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Pocket GuideFestival Planner & Venues Map

plus information on Festival Lounge,Voting for Awards and the Festival Raffle

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!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. 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.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. You’ll find the Festival Lounge in The Cube, ACMI galleries Level – if you’re at the Box Office, take the escalators downstairs. Entry is free, so come on down!

1 ACMI CINEMASAustralian 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 CINEMAS131 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 LOOP23 Meyers Place, Melbourne Loop is our Celluloid Casserole screening venue.

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.Check our website for the full list of prizes.Thanks to our generous sponsors The Cullen Hotel, and Bang & Olufsen Collins Street.

Don’t miss your chance to decide the best of the Fest in 2012! 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.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.

Festival Planner & Venues Mapplus information on Festival Lounge,

Voting for Awards and the Festival Raffle

Pocket Guide15-25 March 2012

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 [email protected]

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Thursday 15 March7.30pm ON Cloudburst + Opening Night Party

Gala Event p.12

Friday 16 March6pm 01 Break My Fall Lazy

Lesbians p.23

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

10.15pm 05 Sexing The Transman p.55

10.30pm 06 Sex Drives & Videotape p.72

Saturday 17 March11am 07 Hit So Hard Directors

Choice p.53

1.15pm 08 Wish Me Away Lazy

Lesbians p.55

2pm 09 East Bloc Love STUDIO p.57

2pm 10 The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Lazy Trans p.50

3.30pm 11 Circumstance p.24

3.30pm 12 For 80 Days p.28

6pm 13 August Lazy Buggers p.21

6.15pm 14 Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Directors

Choice Lazy

Lesbians p.25

Seeks Same

8.15pm 15 Joe + Belle p.35

8.15pm 16 Gun Hill Road Lazy Trans p.31

10.15pm 17 Cocktales p.70

10.15pm 18 Man At Bath p.38

Sunday 18 MarchMidday 19 Queeries 1 STUDIO p.85

12.15pm 20 Short & Girly p.74

2pm 21 Help! We’ve Got A Gay in The Class STUDIO p.58

2pm 22 Personal Stories p.89

2.15pm 23 Kawa p.35

4pm 24 Photos of Angie STUDIO p.60

4pm 25 Cancerpants p.52

4.15pm 26 Let My People Go! Lazy

Buggers p.36

6pm 27 My Last Round p.41

6.15pm 28 With Every Heartbeat Lazy

Lesbians p.45

8pm 29 So Hard To Forget p.43

8.30pm 30 Private Romeo p.42

Monday 19 March6pm 31 Harvest p.32

6.15pm 32 Suicide Room p.44

8pm 33 Fake Orgasm p.53

9pm 34 Our Paradise p.42

Tuesday 20 March6pm 35 Insects in The Backyard p.33

6.15pm 36 Absent Centrepiece Presentation p.14

6.30pm 37 Daphne p.26

8pm 38 The Green p.30

8.15pm 39 Tomboy DirectorsChoice

Lazy Trans p.44

8.30pm 40 Four More Years Lazy

Buggers p.29

10pm 41 Rent Boys p.54

Wednesday 21 March6pm 42 We Were Here Centrepiece Presentation p.15

6.30pm 43 Love Actually…Sucks p.37

7.30pm 44 Celluloid Casserole p.91

8pm 45 Beauty DirectorsChoice p.22

8.30pm 46 Jitters p.34

10.15pm 47 The Advocate For Fagdom p.50

Thursday 22 March6pm 48 An Ordinary Family p.41

6.15pm 49 Vito Selectors’ Choice p.17

6.30pm 50 Break My Fall p.23

8pm 51 So Hard To Forget p.43

8.15pm 52 Off Beat Centrepiece Presentation DirectorsChoice

Lazy Buggers p.16

9pm 53 The Green p.30

10.15pm 54 Short & Burly p.68

10.15pm 55 Sex Drives & Videotape p.72

Friday 23 March6pm 56 Joe + Belle p.35

6.15pm 57 eCupid: Love On The Download p.27

6.30pm 58 Circumstance Lazy

Lesbians p.24

8pm 59 Jamie And Jessie Are Not Together p.34

8.15pm 60 Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same p.25

9.30pm 61 Private Romeo Lazy Buggers p.42

10.30pm 62 Cocktales p.70

10.15pm 63 Mommy is Coming p.39

Midnight 64 Hollywood To Dollywood p.63

Saturday 24 MarchMidday 65 The Cure: A Documentary Film STUDIO p.52

12.15pm 66 Boobtube p.76

2pm 67 Queeries 2 STUDIO p.86

2pm 68 Oz Docs p.65

2.15pm 69 The Mountain p.40

4pm 70 Illegal Love STUDIO p.59

4pm 71 Queer As Fxxk p.61

4.15pm 72 Transformations p.81

6pm 73 Oz Shorts p.66

6pm 74 What Happens Next p.45

8pm 75 With Every Heartbeat p.45

8.15pm 76 August p.21

10.30pm 77 Short & Burly p.68

10.30pm 78 Kink Crusaders p.54

Sunday 25 March12.15pm 79 Femme Fatalities p.78

2pm 80 Queeries 3 STUDIO p.87

2pm 81 Still Around p.61

2.15pm 82 Becoming Chaz Lazy Trans p.51

4pm 83 The Call p.24

4.15pm 84 Morgan p.40

6pm 85 Mix Tape p.82

6.15pm 86 Romeos Lazy Trans p.43

8.30pm CN Leave It On The Floor + Closing Night Party Gala Event p.18

Monday 26 March 87, 88, 89, 90 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: We rescreen the 4 most popular sessions from the Festival. Check our website for details.

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9.30pm 61 Private Romeo Lazy

Buggers p.42

Feature/Documentary Shorts Package Session with Panel

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