“I’m hugely honoured to be one of this year’s GOFFMothers. I’ve always believed that art and life are inextricably linked, and film—as a medium that doesn’t just tell stories, but also shows them—is especially effective at inspiring and enlightening. But the cinema is equally potent at condemning, ostracising and erasing. The issue of representation is particularly important to me as a person of colour, as a queer individual, as someone with mental illness, as a migrant; wonderfully, my views on visibility and empowerment align with GOFF and its intersectional approach to celebrating feminism and film. I can’t wait to contribute to what, I’m sure, will be a spectacular, significant event!”

Adolfo Aranjuez is the editor of Metro, Australia’s oldest film and media periodical. He is also the subeditor of Screen Education magazine and a member of Writers Victoria’s editorial committee. Previously, he was the editor of Award Winning Australian Writing, an in-house editor at Melbourne Books and the deputy editor of Voiceworks. Adolfo has done freelance arts work, in an array of capacities, for Express Media, Scribe Publications, Meanjin, Dumbo Feather, the Emerging Writers’ and the National Young Writers’ festivals, St Michael’s Grammar School, Melbourne High School, and the city councils of Melbourne, Yarra, Stonnington and Wyndham. His writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow, The Manila Review, Going Down Swinging and the Wheeler Centre website, among others, and his novella Amadeo was released in 2014 by Garratt Publishing. This year, he was named one of the Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 Under 30.

Find him online at http://www.adolfoaranjuez.com and @adolfo_ae.