Join William Mora and filmmaker Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan, MIFF 2015) as they share their unbelievable family story – the inspiration behind this year’s MIFF film, Monsieur Mayonnaise.

Philippe Mora

Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Mora has been making films since he was 15, oscilating between documentary and drama. Philippe is the eldest of Georges and Mirka Mora’s three children, who all grew up prominently in the Australian art scene. Working with the likes of Barry Humphries, Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee and Eric Clapton (to name a few), Mora has solidified himself as an important figure within the Australian art scene since the 1960s.

William Mora

William Mora is one of only three second-generation art dealers operating in Australia today; his father Georges Mora opened one of the first commercial galleries in Melbourne in the 1960s. William is an accredited valuer of Australian art after 1945, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art after 1970 and European and American prints after 1960. William Mora has sat on numerous committees for the support and promotion of the arts, including the National Gallery Society and the Art Committee for the Council of Adult Education.