Submissions are open! Makers Film Festival [MFF23].

We are looking for films to select for our next program to commence screenings in Australia and internationally next year :: 2023. Please share widely.

Films can be short docos, story-led, dramatised, animated. The more creative the better. We welcome all genres as long as they are about some form of craft, design and the handmade. Maximum length 10 minutes. And ‘preferably’ made within the last two years.

For initial selection we just need a link for our panel to view. Deadline 30 September 2022. So, there’s plenty of time to make a new film!

If your film is selected :: it will need to be of high enough quality to screen at cinema scale with good audio. See the T&Cs for more info on file formats etc.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR FILMS!

Submit your film for the next Makers’ Film Festival in 2023.

About the Makers’ Film Festival 2021 – currently touring

The selection of  24 films encompasses a broad range of craft, design and making disciplines presented in mini documentaries, story-led artist profiles to ingenious animations and music video. View the trailer.

Selected from near and far, the films spotlight the everyday habits and skills of ‘makers and smiths’, they reveal what drives enduring professional practice, and illustrate a diversity in film-making creativity as much as the traditional and contemporary craft approaches.

Disciplines and techniques include:
Basketry, Ceramic Art + Pottery, Costume Design + Making, Fibre Art, Glassmaking, Jewellery + Metalsmithing, Pearl Carving, Puppet Making, Screen + Block Printing, Sound Design + Making, Stop Motion Animation, Textiles, Weaving, and Zoetropes.

View the MFF21 line-up of films.

The first Makers’ Film Festival was developed as part of ‘IOTA21: Indian Ocean Craft Triennial’, supported by Lotterywest and the WA Maritime Museum.