Still Searchin' Productions is proud to announce the nominees for this year’s individual category awards! Every film we screen at Made in the West is in the running to win one of two major trophies – the ‘Best in the West’ Award (for independent films) or the ‘Best Student Film’ – awarded to those films that receive the top score overall from our panel of judges. To make it even more interesting, each year we also ask our judges to nominate the films that demonstrate excellen

Made in the West 2019 will feature 18 short films by local filmmakers from right across Western Sydney, from Camden to Canterbury, Warwick Farm to Whalan, Quakers Hill to Kenhurst. While the films differ in genre, they all share one thing in common: they each feature a cast member, crew member or location from Western Sydney. And we think that’s pretty fabulous! In this year’s festival line-up you’ll get to see some hilarious comedies and great dramas, doco’s, web series, hor

Made In The West Film Festival is now less than a month away! What better way to celebrate the final week of submissions (and the influx of student films undoubtedly coming our way) than to chat to Emma Elias, who walked away with Best Student Film Award in 2015 for her beautiful film Clarté de Lâme. If you haven’t seen the film yet (shame on you), you can watch it here. Note: Late entries are still being accepted THIS WEEK ONLY for Made in the West 2017! If you’re a film stu

What a fabulous time we had at the 2015 Made in the West Film Festival – with an impressive line up of films and plenty of awesome young filmmakers in attendance, we think it was one of the best yet! Still Searchin’ Productions would like to congratulate all the entrants in this year’s event and particularly, the 18 finalists that had their films screened on the night – you each contributed to a great night of film watching and we take our hats off to you. Made in the West