Curiously West Film Club

Curiously West Film Club is a joint venture between Western Sydney University, CuriousWorks and Powerhouse Youth Theatre Fairfield. Many filmmaking spaces are either sporadic, located in the city or distant from South West Sydney; there is a significant gap for Western Sydney filmmakers to connect with their local counterparts. Recognizing this need, CuriousWorks, PYT Fairfield, and Western Sydney University have partnered to bridge this gap by establishing a dedicated and regular space for deep collaboration and connection. Though originally led just by Addy Fong at Western Sydney University, the expansion has allowed this initiative to go beyond one-off networking events, providing filmmakers with a consistent environment that fosters experimentation, skill development, and the nurturing of their craft.

Curiously West meets fortnightly on Thursday evenings at PYT Fairfield. The sessions range from hands-on skill-building workshops, to sessions where filmmakers can watch and review films, to networking sessions, to collaborative film-making sessions. It’s a space where folks of different ages, cultural backgrounds, and levels of experience can come together out of a love for film-making.

In addition to the fortnightly Thursday sessions, CuriouslyWest also set out to collaborate on their first short film together, Waves. Filmmakers met up on additional Saturday sessions to produce a short film from conception and script-writing all the way through to post-production.


CREDITS

Program Coordinators:
CuriousWorks: Diego Murillo
Western Sydney University: Addy Fong 
PYT Fairfield: Daisy Montalvo

Project Partners: Western Sydney University and PYT Fairfield

CuriouslyWest is supported by Fairfield City Council through the Arts & Culture Grant 2023.