Quandamooka Film Festival

Bring your story. Use the tools if they help. Keep what is yours. Ask before using what belongs to others. AI can help with structure, prompts, planning, captions, and rough ideas, but humans hold the story.

A festival idea shaped around practical story care.

This site is a draft public toolkit for people who want to make a film, plan a screening, or prepare useful Markdown files for AI-assisted story work. It is not an official community rulebook and it does not tell anyone what their story should mean.

Use the tools if they help. Leave them alone if they do not. The story stays with the person or group who carries it.

What do you want to do next?

A small community film workshop planning around a table

First-timers, phone filmmakers, documentarians, young creators, and organisers.

The site keeps the language beginner-friendly because the point is to help people shape a usable plan, not impress them with film school vocabulary.

  • Storytellers who have a spark but not a structure yet.
  • People using a phone, simple camera, interview setup, or AI storyboard tool.
  • Groups who need permissions, source trails, and public/private boundaries written down.

For the makers who want the bigger sandbox.

Civilisation of Sand is a separate live draft workbench: a playful story-world and systems simulation for future-facing quests, material imagination, local capability, AI, robotics, care, and resilience. QFF links to it as adjacent creative context, not as festival authority.

Old brainstorms stay in the background.

The source documents behind this draft were treated as raw material, not as authority. This site does not claim approval from QYAC, MMEICAC, Elders, Council, schools, sponsors, businesses, or community groups.