Tickets are now on sale for the third annual VMC Film Festival, to be held from 7pm, Thursday, 23 May at ACMI, Fed Square, Melbourne. Early bird tickets are available for just $10 until Sunday 5 May.
The VMC Film Festival is a short-film festival showcasing the stories of emerging filmmakers from diverse cultural backgrounds across Victoria and Australia.
This year, the big screen will light up with stories of everyday multiculturalism that contribute to ‘making diversity great again’. Efforts to promote cultural diversity and inclusion have been under threat for some time now, with fear and division on the rise around the globe. To help roll back this tide, this unique collection of films explores the positive side of cultural diversity and potential barriers to social inclusion.
The VMC Film Festival is presented by the Victorian Multicultural Commission in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology as an offshoot of Cultural Diversity Week.
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