Accessibility

Event: Made in the West Film Festival 2025: Opening Night Gala

General information

Contact name

Jay Knapp - Community and Events Manager

Contact number

0435 209 203

Travel instructions

By car: Access the Westfield car park via George Street and drive up to the rooftop parking lot. There are 5 accessible parking spaces located outside the Event Cinemas entrance. Arrive after 6pm for free parking all night. If you arrive prior to 6pm, parking rates are free for the first three hours and then you will start to be charged. Made in the West runs from 6pm - 11:30pm approximately. Parking rates and information can be found below. > https://www.westfield.com.au/liverpool/parking By train: Trains run to Liverpool every 15 minutes. Event Cinemas / Westfield Liverpool is a 10 minute trip from the station. Check for trackwork and plan your journey ahead of the event. Be mindful that extreme heat or severe weather may cause delays or cancellation of services. There is scheduled track work planned for the Saturday 22 November which affects anyone travelling through Lidcombe - Strathfield or via the Blue Mountains line using express services. Leave plenty of extra time for your departure and return trips. Review planned track work below. > https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/future-trackwork-calendar By bus: Take the T80 from Parramatta, M90 from Bankstown, 802 from Fairfield or the 872 from Campbelltown.

Entry instructions

Event Cinemas is located on the top floor (Level 3) of Westfield Shopping Centre, on Elizabeth Drive Liverpool. Pedestrian access to the cinema is via the front entrance of Westfield Shopping Centre then take the first escalator to the roof. There are two elevators inside the shopping centre, at the east and west ends, which service Levels 1, 2 and 3 however access on Level 3 is to an outside / exterior rooftop car park with considerable travel to Event Cinemas. For this reason, we advise anyone with mobility considerations to drive and park in accessible parking spaces on the rooftop where possible.

After entry instructions

When you arrive at Level 3, Event Cinemas is located up a small set of stairs. There is a ramp located outside the automatic doors on the right; follow the glass wall to find the bottom of it. Then, travel through the entrance - past the bathrooms on the right and Parlour Lane (candy bar) on the left. There is a small set of stairs to get to the festival entrance on the mezzanine level with a ramp located on the left. Travel past the bar on your left and our friendly volunteers will welcome you to the festival and scan your digital tickets. You will self-select your seats at the point of ticket registration but friendly staff on the night can help direct you to your seats if you need. Red carpet entry and photos start from 6pm, with doors to the cinema opening at 7pm. Before 7pm, the red carpet foyer space can get quite crowded and loud. For this reason, you may choose to wait away from the crowd if needed. We conduct filming inside the cinema before doors open which we require silence for so unfortunately cannot permit attendees inside the cinema before 7pm.

Hazards

There are two smalls sets of stairs to get to Cinema 12 where Made in the West screens; when you arrive at Level 3, Event Cinemas is located up a small set of stairs. There is a ramp located outside the automatic doors on the right; follow the glass wall to find the bottom of it. Then, travel through the entrance - past the bathrooms on the right and Parlour Lane (candy bar) on the left. There is a small set of stairs to get to the festival entrance on the mezzanine level with a ramp located on the left.

Toilet location

Bathrooms are located on the entry level of Event Cinemas, on the other side of the void between the entry and mezzanine levels. As you enter Event Cinemas on the entry level, turn right. From Cinema 12 on the mezzanine level, where Made in the West screens, travel along the foyer and past the bar on your right, navigate down the small set of stairs or ramp, and travel past Parlour Lane on your right and travel straight ahead to the arcade games area. The bathrooms are on your right.

Accessible parking

There are multiple accessible parking spaces across all levels of the Westfield parking lot. There are five spaces located outside Event Cinemas on Level 3 (rooftop).

We want you to have a great time!

What to Expect 6pm - Red carpet entry and photos 7pm - Doors to the cinema open 7:30pm - Screening starts with Acknowledgement to Country, housekeeping, speeches and feature film trailers, then our first 75 minute segment screens followed by some awards. 9pm - Intermission 9:30pm - Our second 75 minute segment screens followed by a live audience vote via a QR code on screen to select your favourite film of the night. 11pm - We'll hand out some more awards and then our major trophies will be presented. 11:20pm - Anticipated finish. The festival after party is at the Macquarie Hotel. Make a night of it! Stay at the Quest Apartments or Meriton Suites in Liverpool to avoid the late night uber home. > Quest Apartments: https://www.questapartments.com.au/properties/nsw/liverpool/quest-liverpool > Meriton Suites: https://www.meritonsuites.com.au/our-hotels/nsw/western-sydney/liverpool Heads up We encourage attendees to let us know if they have any accessibility requirements or concerns before the event. Please make a note in your ticket order and we'll do our best to reach out to you ahead of the event to keep you informed so you can have a great night. Westfield Shopping Centre will be very busy; Black Friday sales will be on (ahead of Saturday 29 November) and people will be out to take advantage of early end-of-year presents for the gift-giving season. The period from 6pm until cinema doors open can be quite overwhelming - we pack our 330 audience into the pre-cinema foyer on mezzanine level and it can be quite crowded and loud. There is space on the other side of the cinema (where the entrance / Parlour Lane and bathrooms are) which is less populated and quieter if needed. We do some recording inside the cinema for our Online Festival at this time, which we need silence for, so we don’t generally admit anyone to the space before doors open at 7pm. We encourage anyone who would like to avoid loud / crowded spaces to delay your arrival until 7pm. Films may contain flashing / strobing content; we ask filmmakers to add a warning at the start of their films for attendees and our MC will announce if this is the case too. Also, it's worth noting that the festival is not hearing loop enabled, we do not make use of an Auslan interpreter and the presentation is not close captioned, except for films that were submitted with captions or films in languages other than English. Priority seating Cinema 12 has two wheelchair holds for anyone who needs them - please contact us to reserve them, or the seats near / around them for your family, friends, cast, crew or carers. How to stay up to date Follow us online via our Linktree, Facebook or Instagram pages. We keep our website up to date too, with our news blog and FAQs pages being your best source of information. We'll also keep you updated with regular communications via email from the Humanitix platform. > Linktree: https://linktr.ee/madeinthewest > Blog: https://www.madeinthewest.com.au/news > FAQs: https://www.madeinthewest.com.au/faq How to contact us Please reach out to our Community and Events Manager with any questions or concerns - details at the top of this page - or visit our website to contact us. > https://www.madeinthewest.com.au/contact-made-in-the-west