MWFF 2022: Comedy in Australian Screen
Event description
Australian films and TV have always had their own kind of quirky humour, but how do you define this style of comedy? Join an esteemed panel of filmmakers and film critics to talk about how screen comedy in Australia is shaped by editing, mise en scene, or script writing, and how comedy may have changed over the years to reflect differing values.
Following the discussions, there will also be a live student Q & A session with the panelists.
This is a marvellous opportunity to link with VCE Media Unit 1 and Unit 3, and Media Arts curriculum linking to representation, and institutional context.
Can’t make it in person? This panel will also be available to attend online. Register your details and we’ll send you an access link and instructions closer to the event.
Any queries, please email education@mwff.org.au
Panelists
More updates announced soon:
Kodie Bedford
Kodie wrote episodes of ABC’s Mystery Road, earning her a 2020 AACTA nomination for Best Screenplay in Television. Her 2020 play Cursed! which won the prestigious 2021 Stage AWGIE award as well as the AWGIE Major Award. Kodie wrote and executive produced 2021 ABC iView series All My Friends Are Racist, winning the 2021 AACTA for Best Short Form Comedy. Kodie wrote on Firebite, a vampire series by See-Saw for AMC.
Mel Campbell
Mel Campbell is a cultural critic, copyeditor and university lecturer working on unceded Wurundjeri country. Her first book was the nonfiction investigation Out of Shape: Debunking Myths about Fashion and Fit (2013). She has co-written two romantic comedy novels with Anthony Morris: The Hot Guy (2017) and Nailed It! (2019).
Lesley Speed
Lesley Speed lectures in Humanities at Federation University. She has written about comedy in Australian film and television, early Australian film, and teen films. She is the author of the books Australian Comedy Films of the 1930s: Modernity, the Urban and the International and Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s.
