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Snowy Owl:
Smalltalk Diaries Queen Of The North
10 x 15’, HD 1 x 60’, 4K
Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be a bug? Well you’re about to find out. With Sharing an intimate and remarkable story, the film follows a breeding pair of
the help of a startling invention, the Translation Lens, we can actually translate the snowy owls as they struggle to raise their owlets in the unpredictable and
thoughts of small creatures into language we can understand. Smalltalk Diaries unforgiving Arctic. But hatching owlets in a year when prey numbers are low is
reveals the shock truth of what flies and other bugs think. only the beginning – to survive, the owlets have to escape polar bears, endure
millions of mosquitoes and even face an icy tundra river.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/Nature Conservation Channel Ltd/
Ammonite/CBBC/Big Squid/Off the Fence Thirteen WNET-New York

A Song Of Love: An
Ape With An App Spirits of Orchid Island
1 x 60’, 4K 1 x 60’, HD
Shot over two years in a pocket of mountainous Chinese wilderness, this film Orchid Island lies just off Taiwan’s southern coast. Fish and sea snakes populate
introduces the Skywalker Gibbon – a newly discovered primate. Skywalker its coral reefs, while forested slopes house lanyu scops owls, whistling green
Gibbons have an unusual ritual. When they court, they sing to one another in pigeons, reptiles and huge spiders. The island is also home to a unique sea-going
cries that can be heard across vast distances. But what if the gibbons are too far culture - the Tao people. Their knowledge and respect for the forests and ocean
apart to hear a call to their mate? A professor and a pop star set out to remedy has preserved the island’s wild and unspoilt nature.
the situation by becoming gibbon matchmakers.
Terra Mater Factual Studios PTS

Sri Lanka: Precious Isle Streetwise
1 x 60’, HD 1 x 60’, HD
‘Sri Lanka – Precious Isle’ takes the viewer on a trip to various places of this Around 7,000 herons live permanently in Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands.
beautiful country. But rather than showing only picturesque landscapes, the story Most people don’t have any problem with these long-legged thieves, but if you
features seven different but outstanding characters. Some of the programme’s run a fast food restaurant or live next door to the lady who feeds them each day,
protagonists’ occupations might look common in a local context, though some then these birds can become quite a nuisance. Streetwise opens up the floor to
developed a unique way to travel new paths. Passion, love and strength are but both their supporters and their opponents.
Content Available in Neutral Spanish / Contenido disponible en Español Neutro
a few things all of the protagonists have in common.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/NDR Corona Pictures