MWFF Critics Lab 2020: Meet the Mentees!
Say hello to the Melbourne Women in Film Festival Critics Lab Class of 2020! These four lucky humans will be participating in mentoring sessions and special screenings over the next couple of weeks. They’ll be writing updates in our festival diary, interviewing filmmakers and panellists, networking with industry folk, and reviewing the incredible features in this year’s program. To make things even more exciting, we’re teaming up with Kill Your Darlings to publish their work after we wrap up the festival!
Keep an eye out for their faces at screenings, workshops and panels. Say hi and ask them what it’s like to be a film critic!
Natalie Williams is a Melbourne-based creative who is passionate about sharing stories that matter with the world, and creating spaces for diverse voices to be heard. She is a writer, a video editor, an aspiring filmmaker, the co-founder of KOS Magazine and a dedicated Hufflepuff!
Laura La Rosa is a proud Darug woman, writer, graphic designer, and emerging critic. She is Running Dog's Inaugural First Nations Emerging Critic and a post-graduate cultural and screen studies student at University of Melbourne. With bylines in SBS, Kill Your Darlings, Eureka Street and Big Issue, Laura is passionate about fostering disruptive discourse and elevating vital voices and works through various mediums.
Tiia Kelly is an emerging writer and editor from Melbourne, currently completing her BA in creative writing and screen and cultural studies at The University of Melbourne. You can find some of her writing (on film and otherwise) in Voiceworks, Baby Teeth, Kissing Dynamite and Farrago. She has recently begun crying in movies after a lifetime of not doing so, and is very excited about it.
Chloe Wong is a writer and screenwriter who is currently studying a Graduate Certificate of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is particularly passionate about the authentic portrayal of sexual identity and ethnic diversity in any form of media.
