News in Brief: Major film festival updates, La Brea films in Vic, and Epic lawsuit continues
It's a big week for film festivals with a new director for BIFF, MIFF opening apps for 37 South Market and Critics Campus 2021, SFF opening a new Indigenous Fellowship, and Doc Edge's program announcement.
Australian director Heather Croall won the 2021 Doc Edge Superhero Award for her illuminating portrait of her Glaswegian immigrant father John Croall in Yer Old Faither. Image supplied.
Jini Maxwell is a curator at ACMI, and an award-winning videogame journalist. They curated ‘Honk: Untitled Goose Exhibition,’ co-curate Gay24, a monthly film night showcasing rare, radical and archival queer films. Jini is currently co-curating a major videogame exhibition at ACMI.