Image: the festival opening as we wanted it to be. The 2016 version was not so balmy.
The St Kilda Film Festival launches combine quirkiness, grass roots politics and the simple virtues of entertainment. The truly random element is the weather, which does that special Melbourne uncertainty thang.
This year it rained, we scuttled, so the event was a bit like three thousand damp Labradors on a titanic sofa.
