Melbourne On Film

Dive into the long, rich and diverse film history of an Australian cultural capital with Melbourne On Film: Cinema That Defines Our City.

Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is Australia’s most revered celebration of cinema. It is one of the world’s oldest and most storied film festivals, continuously running since 1952. To commemorate MIFFs 70th anniversary, Black Inc. has partnered with the festival to produce an exciting collection of essays on Melbourne-made cinema.

Melbourne has a long, rich and diverse film history. It was the city where the first ever feature-length film was screened in 1906 The Story of the Kelly Gang. It was also the birthplace of classics likeMonkey Grip,Ghosts of the Civil Dead,The CastleandMad Max, plus many fascinating shorts and experimental films.Melbourne on Film is both a celebration of filmmaking in Melbourne, and a tribute to the citys unique creative history.

The first collection of its kind, it includes personal reflections on the legacy and influence of these key films by some of the citys favourite writers, including Christos Tsiolkas, Sarah Krasnostein, John Safran, Osman Faruqi, Tristen Harwood and Judith Lucy. Melbourne on Filmwill be treasured by cinephiles and readers of intelligent essays on arts and culture.