Made in the West Creative

21/06/2025

🎉 We’ve officially launched our fundraiser for the 2025 Made in the West Film Festival! Help us bring this amazing community to life and support the next generation of Western Sydney filmmakers.
🎟️ Free tickets.
📽️ Epic films.
🎤 Real stories.
Donate now via the Australian Cultural Fund: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000QZOIDMA5/made-in-the-west-film-festival

15/06/2025

We love working with talented filmmakers like Shaye Fox from DMWC Films — one of Western Sydney’s most prolific creators in the local music video and documentary scene 🎬

Thanks to the Calling Cards program by Arts and Cultural Exchange - ACE, we were stoked to deliver a workshop series through Made in the West Creative to help Shaye level up his creative practice.

Ross had an awesome time sharing tips on how to film live gigs and demonstrating editing techniques designed especially for music videos 🎸 We also worked on refining Shaye’s promotional channels to better reflect his dedication to showcasing the NSW heavy metal music scene.

🔥 Go check out his work on YouTube and Instagram — we reckon you’ll love it as much as we do. Keep killing it, Shaye!

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10/06/2025

What an honour it was to see Diversity Arts Australia's advocacy in action at the inaugural Symposium 🙌

Made in the West was asked to capture and highlights, along with the all-day program of panel discussions, lightning talks and artist performances to hundreds of viewers across Australia.

Hats off to our AV team & production crew for operating so smoothly on the day 🎬 Big thanks also to our audio and video editors for helping us deliver a full suite of podcast and video content - we love your work!

If you are planning a conference or live event and you're keen to capture highlights or livestream to a wider audience, get in touch with us at Made in the West. We have the expertise you need!

18/05/2025

Exciting news on the home front! has been selected to participate in Social Enterprise for Screen, a national masterclass program hosted by and supported by Screenrights🎉

We loved meeting all the other great filmmakers at our first workshop this week and looking forward to hearing more about social entrepreneurship from such a wonderful lineup of mentors and speakers 🎬 Thanks for the opportunity!

10/04/2025

We're pleased to be working with PYT Fairfield capturing the latest episodes of SITCOM 🤩 Featuring two original sitcom scripts written by local artists and performed by actors from the PYT Ensemble in a LIVE studio-audience setting, filmed by Curiously West Film Club 🎬 On stage for ONE NIGHT ONLY this Saturday 12 April from 6.30pm – 9.30pm. Book your FREE tickets online here: pyt.com.au/sitcom2

30/03/2025

Join us at 7pm on Thursday 10 April for another Online Networking Event with filmmakers! Hosted by the team from Made in the West Film Festival in collaboration with Western Sydney Filmmakers Hangout and featuring spotlight interviews with local filmmakers 🎬 Reserve your ticket here: https://events.humanitix.com/wsfone

Get some advice on script development, meet new collaborators, chat about your latest project and find out what's happening in the local film scene! See you there 😎

28/03/2025

We're coming back by popular demand! After full house events two years in a row our INDIE FILMMAKER MEET-UP is now open for session selection in the 2025 festival 🎉🎉 Please cast a vote our way!

1️⃣ Visit: https://rb.gy/ogn914
2️⃣ Cast your vote to see us in the 2025 SXSW program
3️⃣ There is no 3; it really is that easy!

There's no need to register and every vote counts towards being part of the conversation at SXSW again this October. Thank you!

And if you're in town for SXSW Sydney this year, come and connect with other creatives in this open networking session for emerging and established screen artists. Find future collaborators, share your work, and gain insights from each other as we talk film and filmmaking practice in Australia 🎬🎬

11/03/2025

HUGE congratulations to Paul K Rye and Noel Street Productions for winning the 2024 People's Choice Award for his debut short 'Places, Please!' 🏆🏆 This laugh out loud comedy got a heap of votes from our online audience this summer and thanks to our new sponsors at In the Park Events (in association with Sydney Olympic Park) he's just received a $2000 CASH PRIZE to put towards his next film!!! And you can bet he's got another great project in the works too 🎬 all filmed out west of course!

Misty from Made in the West Creative was there to hand over the prize pack with extra goodies from Event Cinemas, Still Searchin' & The Pagey Train and Creative Plus Business 🎉🎉 thanks to 'Places, Please!' is screening at Sydney Olympic Park this season along with 5 other awesome films from the 2024 lineup!

Have you made a film featuring cast, crew or locations from ? ENTER YOUR FILM via madeinthewest.com.au before 25 October and you could take home a prize in 2025!

03/11/2024

Made in the West Film Festival is coming soon on Saturday 30 November 👏👏 Come and celebrate another year of AMAZING made by filmmakers 😎 Tickets are OPEN now via Humanitix!

Made in the West Film Festival 2024

27/09/2024

Great to see represented so well in the discussion about future and opportunities in 🏊‍♀️ attended the Western Sydney Waterways Symposium today, with contributions from local legend of and fame Richard Fox and NSW deputy premier 🙌 so great to see driving a big vision for future development here out west in and