Feast your eyes upon this year’s festival poster! Welcome to the kaleidoscope. Just don’t stare into the centre for too long… we can’t guarantee where the rabbit hole leads! Since the early day of Made in the West, it has been something of a tradition for us to surprise you all with an amazing poster design that captures the personality of each year’s festival. This year, we knew we wanted to do something memorable, as a celebration of all the stories that have passed throug

Every year, Made in the West partners with Western Sydney University to give one lucky design student the chance to shape the visual identity of the festival - and in 2025 we welcome Nico Mendoza to the creative spotlight. Nico’s poster design for Made in the West 2025 captures everything we love about Western Sydney filmmaking - creativity, transformation, and that unstoppable momentum that keeps the region’s stories surging forward. This year’s theme 'Creative Evolution' ce

We are SO excited to reveal the 2024 festival poster! This next level design is the brainchild of another talented student designer from the Burrow Studio at Western Sydney Uni and we think it’s just marvellous. It brings together sci-fi, psychedelic and film-inspired elements into a dazzling design that screams with creativity. With bold colors and surreal imagery showing all eyes on YOU the filmmaker, it perfectly captures the state of Western Sydney’s thriving creative c

The team at Made in the West is thrilled to reveal the 2023 festival poster! Isn’t it gorgeous? When we sent through the brief for this...

Made in the West is proud to reveal our fantastic event poster for 2022! With its many creative nuances and local references, we think it...

2021 may have been a year of hurdles for everyone but #Westies don’t shy away from hard work! With the gradual relaxation of lockdown...

Have you seen our awesome new poster for 2020? It’s so awesome we think it might be our best poster yet!! We think it perfectly captures...