MELBOURNE: 16 December 2008 – The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF 2008), the MIFF Premiere Fund today has opened its application process for Round Five with a call for submissions that closes on January 9, 2009.
The MIFF Premiere Fund, which commenced operations in September 2007 with a A$1.6 million grant over two years from the Victorian State Government, provides strategic minority financial supports to a range of local theatrical documentaries and narrative feature films that will have their premieres at MIFF. At MIFF 2008, Victorian State Premier John Brumby and Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings announced that the MIFF Premiere Fund would continue with a further A$1.6 million grant over two years from July 2009.
