Daughters of Darkness, BFI Flare and ACS Credit Maker 2.0

For this Out Takes, we literally have something for everyone with three interviews and six reviews of queer films from around the globe.  First up we looked at ‘Daughters of Darkness’ from 1971 which is appearing at this year’s Cinema Reborn Film Festival and is described as a surreal, stylish take on the vampire myth that blends gothic horror and psychological drama with camp eroticism. Restored to 4K by the Royal Belgian Cinémathèque, this updated print is having its Australian Premiere on May 9^th at the Lido in Melbourne. We also heard from Dr Janice Loreck who is a Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies in the School of Culture and Communication and her research expertise centres on cinefeminism, women’s filmmaking, screen violence, transgression and global art cinema and she is presenting the film at the Melbourne screening.  We were also delighted to welcome back Dion Blackler to the show in his official capacity as our London Film Correspondent to recap the films he saw at this year’s BFI Flare, London’s premium LGBTQIA+ Film Festival that is billed as a springtime celebration of queer cinema that ran from March 19 to 30. As one of the co-hosts of the podcast ‘In the Mood for Film’ and a lifelong lover of cinema, Dion knows his stuff and brought us five great reviews for films to keep a look out for in film festival’s in 2025 down under. We finished up with an interview from Erika Addis,  the National President of the Australian Cinematographer Society and is the first ever female national president in the society’s history. With Helen Grace, she made ‘Serious Undertakings’ in 1982, an early example of independent filmmaking by Australian women, and at the beginning of her career as part of the camera crew, she also worked on iconic Australian films including ‘Storm Boy’ and ‘The Year My Voice Broke’. We had her on to discuss ACS Credit Maker 2.0 and the importance of this program in the Australian film industry.

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