BIFF IS BACK! The Brisbane International Film Festival is back for another year and long term readers will recall my affection for it. I volunteered at BIFF in 2004, 2005 and 2007. In 2008 I was down to see over 20 movies and met my future wife on the steps of the Palace Cinema on James Street. We lost a BIFF for a while there but it returned in 2017 where I attended with Karen for the first time Opening Night. I was also on assignment with Scenestr magazine to review Australia Day and then last year I was on assignment for Scenestr on opening night.
This year I was wrapping up a work secondment writing for the Queensland College of Teachers so missed Opening Night and ended up sitting out the first few days of the festival.
Yet on Wednesday 09OCT2019 at New Farm Cinemas Karen and I attended a 6:15pm session of Midnight Family missing the first few minutes. All up, I have bought tickets to see five films at BIFF 2019 with three of them being docos. I can’t wait to see them all and share with you.
Midnight Family was a great documentary about private ambulance crews in Mexico City. I was lucky enough to have my review published at Weekend Notes which continues on from my first reviews published with them last year being reviews for films I saw BIFF. You can read my review here https://www.weekendnotes.com/midnight-family-film-review-brisbane-international-film-festival-2019/
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Obviously something I would be interested in, given what I did as a job in London for 22 years. I cannot imagine the crews not being paid, and trying to beat each other to calls. From the clip, it hardly seemed real, more like a regular fictional film.
Great stuff, Lloyd. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
Some of it is absolutely surreal. It is the average person who suffers as well. It was shot so well I also began to wonder if it was a docos but it’s all real apparently which just brings home the plight of people who got picked up by them.
If you ever see I would be fascinated to hear your thoughts. Best wishes Pete.
That sounds really cool.
Thanks Jay.