Five colourfully decorated vases on red dirt in the desert

Teal vase with brown animal figure painted on it with night sky in the background

Woman in black attire with printed top standing in front of a wall weaving

Woman in sleeveless green overalls standing in the middle of an office

Black and white live action puppetry scene with three puppets in a forest

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Makers Film Festival

Ballarat

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Australian Centre for Rare Arts and Forgotten Trades

Bradshaw Street,
Ballarat VIC 3350

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Sat 13 Sep

5:15pm–8pm

$15 - $20

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The Makers Film Festival is an international short film festival celebrating craft, its makers, making, and materials.

The bi-annual festival is making its way to Ballarat, featuring 14 films from around the world including collaborations from Australia, Canada, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Selected from a worldwide call out, the final set of films includes a wide variety of genres as well as craft practices and materials from organic fashion to incense-making, terrazo files to glass, ceramics, puppetry and automata, and more.

The Makers Film Festival is produced by Maker & Smith. Presented by the Australian Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades and the Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections.

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