DEGANZ Members Selected for Melbourne Women Film Festival

Five films from DEGANZ members are in this year’s Melbourne Women Film Festival (MWFF) programme. MWFF showcases work from women and gender diverse filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa, and the Pacific Islands. This year marks the ninth run of the annual festival and will include retrospective screenings, Q&As with filmmakers and creative personnel, diverse short film sessions, engaging panels, public forums, networking events, and practical workshops.

Congrats to all those selected!

The Almost Midnight Movie Marathon

Grafted

Director: Sasha Rainbow

Writers: Mia Maramara & Hweiling Ow

In a back-to-back screening with the Australian feature T Blockers, Grafted is featured in a night of schlock, horror, gore, and goo!

Grafted is Sasha Rainbow’s debut feature where Mean Girls meets Face/Off. When a brilliant but disfigured Chinese scholarship student is shunned by her fellow classmates at a prestigious New Zealand university, she decides to achieve the popularity she so desperately craves by putting her science studies to a new and terrifying use.

Freshly Squeezed Shorts 1

Cold Feet

Writer/Director: Isla McLeod

Producer: Miryam Jacobi

A six-minute continuous take following a bride-to-be who is having doubts just before she walks down the aisle.

Taurewarewa

Editor: Amanda Mulderry

An inquisitive approach to bipolar disorder in Aotearoa New Zealand, Taurewarewa – a Māori word describing the pressure building as a wave rises – positions the ocean’s moods behind those of the interview subjects as they recount and describe phases of experiencing the disorder.

Bottle Money

Writer/Director: Rebekah Tyler

Co-Editor: Sam Small

16-year-old Nelson plays parent to his younger siblings while their unstable and unreliable Mum wreaks havoc on the household. As the chaos of their world increases, Nelson must decide: how much longer can he stand to love her?

Freshly Squeezed Shorts 2

Lǎo Lao Lǎo Le

Writer/Director: Julie Zhu

Editor: Brendon Chan

When a young boy is left home alone with his increasingly unwell grandmother, he is forced to come to terms with her deterioration

Last updated on 8 April 2025