Page 10 - Autumn Lineup 2019

Moths, butterflies and caterpillars are the protein that fuels the natural world: everything eats them – or at least tries to. In response, these winged superheroes have evolved an intriguing and fascinating array of tricks, guises and deflections to confound their would-be predators. Now, scientists are revealing the secrets of these remarkable, beautiful creatures – and surprises are guaranteed.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/Thirteen/WNET/ Coneflower Productions
‘Smiling Elephant’ follows Dutch elephant researcher Antoinette van de Water who, with the support of the University of Miami, committed herself to reducing the human - elephant conflict in Thailand. As the habitat of wild elephants shrink due to human population growth and increasing farmland, human and elephant conflict is a serious problem. After years of struggling to save domestic elephants and failing, Antoinette undertakes a project to keep the elephants away from farmland with the use of new and innovative techniques. Join Antoinette as she embarks on a brave new quest which takes her to Thailand and Africa to help save the elephant and human conflict.
NCFWW
Giant prehistoric spiders seek kinky love in the dark. As the world rapidly descends into the next period of global mass extinction, a message of hope comes from an unlikely hero: a creature, that has survived prior mass extinctions and climatic change hidden beneath the mountains of one of the world’s last great wildernesses. Journey through stunning Tasmania to an underworld that few people have seen and celebrate the wonder of an ecosystem that preceded us and may still outlast
us. Bookend Enterprises Pty. Ltd
Tremendously tall or ridiculously small. Meet giant birds that can’t fly and even bigger mammals that defy gravity. There is the brush turkey with its outrageously large feet – and the obscure – giant African bullfrogs challenging each other for their offspring! On mass, termites become fierce defenders, schools of anchovies become impenetrable and we find out that much on Earth that appears gigantic is made up or nourished by the smallest of the small.
Terra Mater Factual Studios
The African Baobab is one of the largest living things in the world, an African icon, instantly recognisable, mysterious and intriguing. It is the world’s biggest flowering and largest succulent plant on earth. This is the tree that many African people believe to be the home of ancestral spirits. Important to the indigenous people as a source of food, fiber and medicine and is now being hailed as an African ‘super fruit’ and as a ‘dryland crop for the future’. This film is the fascinating history and overview of the remarkable Baobab. Camera Africa
Sex, Lies And Butterflies
1 x 60’, 2017, 4K
Smiling Elephant
1 x 60’, 2019, 4K
Sixteen Legs
1 x 60’, 2 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2018, 4K
Tall & Tiny: Nature’s Extremes
1 x 60’, 2018, HD
The Upside Down Tree
1 x 60’, 2018, HD
Nature & Wildlife