WILD EARTH OCEANIA FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Beauty & Wonder
Jumping, hopping, gliding, inspecting, and running are the motions that spring through this action packed session for nature and life!
Come with us to learn of the secret lives of three gorgeous baby tree in far North Queensland, what’s been done to save tiny species in the UK how to learn about an entire species from their bones and how a young woman is empowering young children and the next generation to fight for a greener future.
Following the Film join us for Moonlight Museum: a fascinating exploration into the secrets of animal artefacts & ancient fossils. With genuine bones and fossils to experience, this interactive workshop promises an unforgettable evening of learning and adventure for curious minds of all!
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.
SESSION TIME
Date: 20th of January, 2024
Time: 6:15pm – 8:15pm (includes interactive session)
Address: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide
This film session is family friendly and should be appropriate for all ages. Recommended for 5+ years.
Creatures of the Kaleidoscope
Directed & Produced by Hannah Jodie Alexander
Students & Youth – 18 minutes
Exploring one of nature’s most magical creatures, the cuttlefish. Discover how they use their colour changing and shape shifting abilities to survive and thrive in the open ocean.
WILD EARTH OCEANIA FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Beauty & Wonder
Jumping, hopping, gliding, inspecting, and running are the motions that spring through this action packed session for nature and life!
Come with us to learn of the secret lives of three gorgeous baby tree in far North Queensland, what’s been done to save tiny species in the UK how to learn about an entire species from their bones and how a young woman is empowering young children and the next generation to fight for a greener future.
Following the Film join us for Moonlight Museum: a fascinating exploration into the secrets of animal artefacts & ancient fossils. With genuine bones and fossils to experience, this interactive workshop promises an unforgettable evening of learning and adventure for curious minds of all!
SESSION TIME
Date: 20th of January, 2024
Time: 6:15pm – 8:15pm (includes interactive session)
Address: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide
This film session is family friendly and should be appropriate for all ages. Recommended for 5+ years.
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.
Creatures of the Kaleidoscope
Directed & Produced by Hannah Jodie Alexander
Students & Youth – 18 minutes
Exploring one of nature’s most magical creatures, the cuttlefish. Discover how they use their colour changing and shape shifting abilities to survive and thrive in the open ocean.
In My Bones
Directed & Produced by Harrison Warne
Sponsored – 12 minutes
Meet Adele Pentland: a palaeontologist living on a remote cattle station in Western QLD. This short feature looks at Adele’s life as a researcher and her favourite animals – the pterosaurs.
Penny: Harvesting Hope
Directed by Josh Robertson
Short – 6 minutes
After discovering harvest mice are on the brink of extinction in the UK, Chester Zoo’s Penny Rudd leads a mission to help protect this iconic species. But will her boundless passion for wildlife and lifelong determination to protect this charismatic species be enough?
Flight of the Helmeted Honeyeater
Directed by Angus Hamilton and Produced by William Hassan
Students & Youth – 9 minutes
Flight of the Helmeted Honeyeater is a documentary focussing on this critically endangered bird and the volunteers giving up their time to save this Victorian treasure. The Helmeted Honeyeater is now found only in a sliver of re-grown forest. Less than 15 years ago, there were fewer than 50 individuals remaining. The Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater and partners have been crucial to helping bring the bird back from the brink of extinction. The population has now reached approximately 250 individuals (and is hopefully growing every year). The Helmeted Honeyeater acts as a symbol of both the fragile natural world, and as a success story… a beacon of hope.
Paint The Future
Directed & Produced by Ryan Kennedy
Micro short – 5 minutes
This story follows the journey of ultra runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett as she hand delivers three hand drawn pictures from Alice (10 years), Ange and Mel (both 8 years) by foot, from the top of Tasmania to the bottom – Devonport to Parliament House in Hobart. Her mission? To empower the next generation to fight for a greener future. These pictures represent a natural world that the girls, and their entire generation, deserve to explore when they’re old enough to throw on a backpack and set foot outdoors on their own. However, Erchana decides to take on this adventure in the middle of winter, across Australia’s coldest State when all the elements are against her.