Dead End Film Festival

2017—19

Dead End Film Festival was a community-run, international film festival that exhibited the work of resourceful filmmakers. It was an annual festival at the Coburg Drive-In, Melbourne held between 2017--2020, and a spontaneous screening program in residency at Flowers Cinema (monthly between 2018-19). Almost all programs hosted by DEFF included live performances, installations, cheap or free meals, distributed texts and talks, and were held in the spirit of poetry and friendship. 

Cinema programs aimed to promote digital films that very limited screening opportunities in Australia. Emotionally, collectively and aesthetically these films employed resourceful practices. Resourceful filmmaking most commonly uses means readily available to the filmmakers, such as inexpensive cameras and untrained cast and crew. We believe that this approach can free filmmaking from economic and social restraints and in doing so provide a greater diversity of voices and stories represented on screen.

What is Resourceful Cinema?


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2017 program

2018 program

2019 program