The LongPlay Music Film Festival comes to Geelong’s Pivotonian Cinema this month, with a curated selection of world-class music feature films showing over four days.
Launching Thursday, November 24 and running until Sunday, the festival showcases music documentaries such as festival headliner ‘The Angels: Kickin’ Down the Door’, a new feature about the legendary Australian rock band.
Also in the lineup are the Sinead O’Connor bio ‘Nothing Compares’, a 4K restoration of Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Waltz’, and ‘We Are the Thousand’, which tells the story of 1,000 Foo Fighters superfans in Italy.
LongPlay is showing throughout regional Victoria across the weekend, brought to Ballarat, Bairnsdale and Geelong by the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Mushroom Pictures and Always Live, the live music initiative conceived by Michael Gudinski before his death.
MIFF artistic director Al Cossar said the Film Festival was pleased to work together with Mushroom and Always Live to deliver LongPlay to Victorian audiences.
“Mushroom Pictures and MIFF combining to curate a Music Film Festival program feels like a perfect harmony,” Mr Cossar said.
“We’re delighted to be a part of this very special event beyond our annual MIFF program and to connect these fascinating films with regional Victorian audiences.”
