The 2006 MIFF audience poll for most popular films have been announced:

Madman titles THE HOST and OFFSIDE came in at 2nd and 3rd respectively, making them the most popular foreign-language films in the festival! Both films are being released through Madman Cinema (OFFSIDE - Sept 28; THE HOST in 2007), and will then be on DVD.

The TOP 10 FEATURE films were:

1. Thank You For Smoking (Dir Jason Reitman, USA)

2. The Host (Dir Bong Joon-ho, Sth Korea)

3. Offside (Dir Jafar Panahi, Iran)

4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Dir Ken Loach, UK/Ireland)

5. A Prairie Home Companion (Dir Robert Altman, USA)

6. A Scanner Darkly (Dir Richard Linklater, USA)

7. Grbavica (Dir Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Austria)

8. C.R.A.Z.Y (Dir Jean-Marc Valée, Canada)
>released by Madman on DVD (Rialto in cinemas)

9. Last Train To Freo (Dir Jeremy Sims, Australia)

10. Quinceanera (Dirs Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, USA)


The TOP 10 DOCOS were:

1. An Inconvenient Truth (Dir Davis Guggenheim, USA)

2. Sketches Of Frank Gehry (Dir Sydney Pollack, USA)

3. Rock The Bells (Dirs Denis Henry Hennelly, Casey Suchan, USA)

4. A Weekend In The Country: A History Of The Meredith Music Festival (Dir Robert McCafferty, Australia)
>Madman will be releasing this on DVD

5. Loudquietloud: A Film About The Pixies (Dirs Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, USA)
>Madman will be releasing this on DVD too

6. Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple (Dir Stanley Nelson, USA)

7. Global Haywire (Dir Bruce Petty, Australia)

8. Women Of The Sun - 25 Years Later (Dir Bob Weis, Australia)

9. A Crude Awakening - The OilCrash (Dirs Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack, Switzerland)

10. Workingman's Death (Dir Michael Glawogger, Austria/Germany)