Thursday, 18 August 2022

Under Cover

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (10:02): I would like to congratulate the team at the Melbourne International Film Festival on another successful year—in fact their 70th year. I also want to alert members to a really terrific film that premiered at MIFF last weekend called Under Cover. It was produced by Adam Farrington-Williams and the wonderful Sue Thomson, and it follows the lives of five women over 50 who have found themselves without homes. This is the fastest growing cohort of people in our society who are finding themselves homeless. It is around gender inequality, and this film beautifully shows the fragility, the economic fragility, of many women in our society. I really commend the film, and I encourage you all to see it.