Author Laurence Barber

Laurence Barber

Laurence Barber is an award-winning film and television critic and freelance writer based in Brisbane. He has written for Metro Magazine and Crikey, and contributes regularly to The Guardian, The 500 Club, and Graffiti with Punctuation. He holds a BA in Film and Television Studies from The University of Queensland.

Everywhere, But Not Yet Nowhere: The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival

Laurence Barber

October 2014

Festival Reports

It’s only natural for the film festival to get philosophical. This is not to accuse the long-running Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) of deliberate naval-gazing – it achieves this almost entirely th...