Overview
The Chippo Film Festival was started in the summer of 2012 as a way of shaking up Sydney's filmmaking community and showcasing local films in a local setting. Now into its fourth year, the festival has almost outgrown the two backyards that host it, with organisers expecting over 700 people to turn out for the event and submissions received from all around the world.
Referred to by its organisers as "urban cinema's premier backyard show", the festival literally takes place across a couple of backyards in a Chippendale laneway, with all the tech stuff and presentations for the night running from a treehouse (it's legit) that sits above the audience. That's one fancy treehouse.
This is the movies, so it's glamorous enough to have a 'red carpet' you're encouraged to dress up for. But it's also in a backyard, so it's BYO. This year, the very loose theme of the festival is 'satisfaction', or "the same feeling Winona Ryder has at the end of Edward Scissorhands". Get your own slice of it by going along to support local filmmakers and checking out that treehouse.