☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“Six years ago, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melbourne</span></a>-based film-maker <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/KristinaKraskov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KristinaKraskov</span></a> read an article about an international <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MicrosoftExcel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftExcel</span></a> competition and had two thoughts. The first: “What the hell, that can’t be real.” The second: “There’s got to be a film about this – I want to watch it so badly.”</p><p>There wasn’t a film about competitive <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/spreadsheeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheeting</span></a>, so Kraskov decided to make it herself. The subject appealed to the director, whose work captures “different inner worlds that are a bit unusual on the outside”, including a short film titled Party in the Back, about a mullet festival.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spreadsheet</span></a> Champions, which will screen at the Melbourne international film festival, follows six young competitors from around the world as they head to Florida for the 2023 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MicrosoftOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftOffice</span></a> Specialist world championship to showcase their skills. It might sound silly, but Excel is an incredibly sophisticated <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/application" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>application</span></a> – according to the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a>, the average person uses only 10-15% of its capabilities, but would-be competitors are required to understand closer to 70% of what it can do.”</p><p>Joel Spolsky (MS Excel PM) would get a kick out of this. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/applications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>applications</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MSOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MSOffice</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a><<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/02/excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/</span><span class="invisible">02/excelling-in-excel-inside-the-high-stakes-secretive-world-of-competitive-spreadsheeting</span></a>></p>