Melbourne Premiere. Feature length documentary. Film introduced by a representative from the Renters and Housing Union Australia. A special forum about activist documentary making with the filmmakers to follow hosted by Keva York, a writer and film critic for ABC Online. Her work has also appeared in publications such as The Monthly, Senses of Cinema, and MUBI Notebook.

Things Will Be Different documents the experiences of two neighbours as they are forced to relocate from the Walker Street public housing estate in Northcote, Melbourne when it is sold for private redevelopment.

Director Lucie McMahon is a film practitioner and scholar based in Melbourne. She teaches, researches and studies media and communications at RMIT University, Collarts and the University of Melbourne. Lucie is currently working on a documentary about queer history in Melbourne through a masters by creative practice research. Lucie recently completed a role working as the programming coordinator at the Australian International Documentary Conference. She is currently working as the distribution coordinator for Arena Media’s Cinemaplus, on two exciting new Australian feature films made by young women, Petrol by Alena Lodkina and Because We Have Each Other by Sari Braithwaite.