WILD EARTH OCEANIA FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Creatures of Oz
From the mysterious creatures living in the deep ocean to the ghosts of the forests with a stop by Australia’s rarest bird of prey, this session will take you on a natural history adventure!
Mysteries of the Twilight Zone
Directed by Leo Leo Richards and Produced by Logan Mock-Bunting
Students & youth – 30 minutes
In the deep ocean, life is concentrated at chemosynthetic oases where primary production is made possible via chemosynthesis at cold seeps and deep sea hydrothermal vents. The non-chemosynthetic regions of the deep are divided into two very different worlds. First is the midwater, where pelagic wanderers tread migratory routes that span entire oceans, and planktonic drifters and their predators take part in bioluminescent light shows.
It is separated into zones based on depth, including the sunlight zone (epipelagic), twilight zone (mesopelagic), midnight zone (bathypelagic), abyssal and hadal zones. And below, lies the deep sea floor. A kingdom of mud and ooze, where sessile creatures cling to any solid outcrop and corals craft kingdoms on the seamount crusts. The worlds of the deep sea could not be more different, and yet their stories are fundamentally intertwined. In this film, we delve into the Twilight Zone.
SESSION TIME
Date: 20th of January, 2024
Time: 12:45pm – 2:45pm (includes 30 minutes Q&A)
Address: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide
This film session contains content that may not be appropriate for very young viewers. 8+ years recommended.
Tree Kangaroos - Ghosts of the Forest
Directed and produced by Geoff Spanner, and executive produced by Chris Fletcher
Feature – 50 minutes
Tree Kangaroos: Ghosts of the Forest, mastered in 4K UHD, centres around a Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo joey and her mother from the time the joey looks out upon the world from her mother’s pouch until she leaves her mother as a fully developed tree kangaroo almost two years later. During that time, Mabi (her name comes from the First Nation name for them) faces several challenges and trials as she learns to find food, climb trees, hop along the ground, avoid predators and grow.
Her biggest challenge is when a new joey emerges from her mother’s pouch and Mabi starts to drift away from them to become an independent tree roo.
Mabi and her mother remain in the wet sclerophyll forest on the edge of the rainforest. Seldom seen, almost never heard and very rarely filmed in their natural environment, they are the ghosts of these forests. Tree kangaroos are however, one of Northern Australia’s most iconic species.
WILD EARTH OCEANIA FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Creatures of Oz
From the mysterious creatures living in the deep ocean to the ghosts of the forests with a stop by Australia’s rarest bird of prey, this session will take you on a natural history adventure!
SESSION TIME
Date: 20th of January, 2024
Time: 12:45pm – 2:45pm (includes 30 minutes Q&A)
Address: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide
This film session contains content that may not be appropriate for very young viewers. 8+ years recommended.
Mysteries of the Twilight Zone
Directed by Leo Leo Richards and Produced by Logan Mock-Bunting
Students & youth – 30 minutes
In the deep ocean, life is concentrated at chemosynthetic oases where primary production is made possible via chemosynthesis at cold seeps and deep sea hydrothermal vents. The non-chemosynthetic regions of the deep are divided into two very different worlds. First is the midwater, where pelagic wanderers tread migratory routes that span entire oceans, and planktonic drifters and their predators take part in bioluminescent light shows. It is separated into zones based on depth, including the sunlight zone (epipelagic), twilight zone (mesopelagic), midnight zone (bathypelagic), abyssal and hadal zones. And below, lies the deep sea floor. A kingdom of mud and ooze, where sessile creatures cling to any solid outcrop and corals craft kingdoms on the seamount crusts. The worlds of the deep sea could not be more different, and yet their stories are fundamentally intertwined. In this film, we delve into the Twilight Zone.
Tree Kangaroos - Ghosts of the Forest
Directed and produced by Geoff Spanner, and executive produced by Chris Fletcher
Feature – 50 minutes
Tree Kangaroos: Ghosts of the Forest, mastered in 4K UHD, centres around a Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo joey and her mother from the time the joey looks out upon the world from her mother’s pouch until she leaves her mother as a fully developed tree kangaroo almost two years later. During that time, Mabi (her name comes from the First Nation name for them) faces several challenges and trials as she learns to find food, climb trees, hop along the ground, avoid predators and grow.
Her biggest challenge is when a new joey emerges from her mother’s pouch and Mabi starts to drift away from them to become an independent tree roo.
Mabi and her mother remain in the wet sclerophyll forest on the edge of the rainforest. Seldom seen, almost never heard and very rarely filmed in their natural environment, they are the ghosts of these forests. Tree kangaroos are however, one of Northern Australia’s most iconic species.
Red Goshawks: lifting the veil
Produced by Braydon Moloney
Short – 10 minutes
Join raptor research Chris MacColl on journey to Cape York, as he reveals new secrets about Australia’s rarest bird of prey.