Conference Dinner

The Conference Dinner will be held in the Long Room at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum [new window].

The Immigration Museum is located in one of Australia's finest 19th century buildings. Completed in 1876 and modelled on an Italian Renaissance palace, Melbourne’s main customs business was conducted in the extraordinary Long Room [new window], with its grand ionic columns, plaster decorations and tessselated tile floor. This building is listed on the Australian Register of the National Estate.

On arrival at the Immigration Museum delegates will make their way to the exhibition hall to view Bollywood Dreams by Jonathan Torgovnik. On show for the first and only time in Australia, this international photographic exhibition turns the camera on the world's largest film industry. Including original photographs by New Yorker Jonathan Torgovnik and behind the scenes documentary footage.
The night will then kick off with the launch of Jane Landman’s new book, Tread of a White Man’s Foot (Pandanus):

Jane Landman's accessible study of Australian Pacific colonialism and the cinema locates a body of films within the context of the colonial culture of the Pacific in the first half of the twentieth century, and discusses the circumstances that surround the history of their production and reception.

And just when you thought there might be time to relax, perhaps enjoy the food, wine and company, think again. The Dinner will also be the place at which the winners of the inaugural Film History Research and Writing Awards will be announced.