Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival returns for its fourth year in 2020 to celebrate and support the diverse, talented voices of Australian women filmmakers and creatives - on screen and behind the camera. For the first time, the festival warmly welcomes filmmakers from Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands to screen their works and participate in the program's talks, workshops and panels.

This year's theme Stories in Colour celebrates and showcases the diversity and differences of women's filmmaking, highlighting the many ways that Australasian women practitioners engage with global stories and the international industry.

Kicking off the festival will be Vai (2019) on opening night: a portmanteau feature film created by nine female Pacific Island filmmakers and filmed across seven Pacific countries. Each of the eight vignettes explores the journey of Vai from a seven-year-old girl to the grand matriarch of her family.

Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020 will feature 20 sessions including short and feature films, panels and workshops, short film awards, and a school screening.

This project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.