Melbourne International Film Festival Adds More Music Films To 2021 Program

Fresh off its first announcement last month, Melbourne International Film Festival has unveiled its full 2021 program, with a stack of music flicks and events added to the line-up.

Along with the initial announcement of documentaries chronicling Aussie artists Courtney Barnett and The Triffids' David McComb, MIFF will host in-conversation events for both films. 

Barnett's Anonymous Club and McComb doco Love In Bright Landscapes will feature special Q&As for fans to get even more up-close-and-personal with those involved. 

The annual MIFF Talks program will also include Art Of The Score: The Music Of Horror, a special panel on composing for horror films featuring Nicholas Buc, Dan Golding and Andrew Pogson.

Music documentaries feature heavily in the overall program, with films featuring the likes of alt-punk legends Dinosaur Jr, Australian country star Wanita Bahtiyar, Tom Petty, and surrealist mockumentary The Nowhere Inn from St Vincent and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein also on the line-up.

Also playing is Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a doco about the lost "Black Woodstock" festival and the first-ever directorial effort from drummer and producer Questlove.

After wowing the world with their own Edgar Wright-directed documentary this year, Sparks will finally release their long-awaited musical Annette with MIFF 2021. 

We'll also see the return of the Hear My Eyes series, featuring live scoring from Aussie bands to films. This year, The Murlocs will create their own soundscape to the Heath Ledger classic Two Hands.

The see the full 2021 line-up, head to the MIFF website here.