Melbourne Lift-Off Film Festival 2024
Network Round Features
Monday 16th December - Sunday 22nd December
1. Feel Proud Walk Tall. A Photographer's Journey
Director: Matt Reed
Producer: Lisa Reed
Country of Origin: Australia
Synopsis: Feel Proud Walk Tall goes inside the life and work of Australia’s
commercial photographer & filmmaker, Matt Reed. From farm boy, to music shop owner, to image maker. This short film focuses on his unique view of the talent, passion and resilience required as a freelance creative in the past 15 years./em>
2. A Melody of Awakening
Director: Julio Quinan
Writer: Lucy L
Producer: Amilson Lourenço,Alessandro Ramos
Country of Origin: Brazil
Synopsis: CECI is a talented and empathetic girl who has a very special musical gift. After discovering that she is adopted, she allows herself to be guided by her intuition and an incessant melody that accompanies her everywhere, and decides to leave, alongside BIA and BETO, her best friends, towards an adventure in search of the truth about her origins. . The three friends thus begin a journey that will forever transform not only their lives, but those of everyone who crosses their paths during this journey.
3. Colibri
Director/Writer/Producer: Francisco Salazar
Director/Writer: Juanpedro David Salazar
Producer: Julian Chona
Country of Origin: Colombia
Synopsis: When Catalina and Germán find out that they will have a major change in their lives, they set out on individual journeys to heal mistakes from the past in order to build a better future for their family. Catalina begins looking for her distanced brother in order to give her child the family she believes she never had while German tries to look for economic stability in order not to repeat the mistakes of his father's past.
4. Mammung
Director/Producer:Maevia Griffiths,Lillian Robb
Country of Origin: Australia
Synopsis: MAMMUNG is a collaborative film project between human rights filmmaker Maevia Griffiths and International Lawyer Lillian Robb. The Noongar people of Western Australia are one of the few cultures on earth with a living memory of the last time the sea level rose. MAMMUNG the film explores these stories of adaptation to climate change as guided by Dr Noel Nannup, and asks how we can incorporate these stories: imagining a pathway forward in which indigenous knowledge can be heard and understood.
3. Greer Ralston - Giving It All To Art
Director: Rachel Dax
Producers: Rachel Dax, Janette Gibney
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Synopsis: An intimate portrait of figurative artist Greer Ralston as she astonishes us with her exceptional talent and tells of her plans to devote herself solely to art.
