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 secondment at work and 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.