The Setting Sun Film Festival (SSFF) was founded in 2013 as a community festival to provide the West with its own film festival that promoted its large community of filmmakers, its people and stories. It was the only festival designed specifically for the Western suburbs. It has now grown in popularity to become the premier international film festival in Melbourne’s West and one of the largest short film festivals in Melbourne.
The Setting Sun Film Festival is part of the City of Maribyrnong’s prestigious Festival City calendar. It screens every year at Yarraville’s Sun Theatre, one of Time Out’s Top 50 cinemas in the world; Kindred Studios and the Greek Centre.
The SSFF was a ground-breaking festival from its inception. While many of Melbourne’s festivals now promote onscreen cultural diversity, the SSFF was designed from the beginning with innovative programs and awards designed to showcase the reality of the West’s vibrantly diverse society. The SSFF was the first festival to have a Cultural Diversity Award. Remarkably, it was the first festival in Australia, to have a female filmmakers’ program.
As the reputation of the festival has grown, it has attracted quality award winning films from around world as well the best filmmakers in Australia. The competition element of the festival honours and recognises the craft of filmmaking.
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The festival was founded and created by Anna Bourozikas from Poppy Kat Media.
