The Melbourne Queer Film Festival, or MQFF, has been running continuously since 1991 . It is the oldest queer film festival in Australia and one of the oldest queer film festivals in the world. It is arguably the largest, or at least the second largest, queer film festival in the Southern Hemisphere as well as being the second largest film festival in Victoria (second only to the Melbourne International Film Festival).
The Festival screens annually, during March, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square in the centre of Melbourne and was the first film festival to use that facility. It also uses various other central Melbourne venues - each having excellent access to public transport and disabled access. The Program Launch, which is the official launch of the Festival, is held in February each year.
Up to 2007 it is estimated that over 120,000 people have attended the Festival and other MQFF events.
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
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