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Pilliga Rising

Overview

Runtime: 39:45
Country: Australia
Language: English
Category: 2019 | Short Documentaries/TV Documentaries (2019)

A salt-of-the-earth farmer, a crafty business owner, a young Indigenous multimedia artist and an experienced citizen scientist rise up to protect their communities against a proposed coal seam gas-field in the Pilliga forest; a million acres of iconic Australian bush. An oil and gas corporation plan to drill 850 wells through the Great Artesian Basin – one of the largest underground freshwater reservoirs in the world – which flows beneath the Pilliga. Now, the people who live in this rural New South Wales region are united to protect the land and water against this threat and determined to win their freedom.

Credits

Mark Pearce, Director
Mark Pearce, Writer
Mark Pearce, Producer
Tony Pickard, Key Cast
Paris Norton, Key Cast
Adam Macrae, Key Cast
Maria Rickert, Key Cast

Prev. Screenings / Awards

Guelph Film Festival
Ontario
Canada
November 9, 2019
Ontario Premiere
Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
October 12, 2019
Malaysian premeire
Director

mark pearce

Mark is an award winning filmmaker from Australia, creating social impact films around themes of nature and humanity. He produces journalistic projects at his production company, Balangara Films in Maleny, Queensland. Balangara has produced a slate of films that have won international acclaim, including ‘Nature Needs You’, ‘A Gentle Giant’ ‘Looking After Our Food’, ‘Looking After Our Country’ and ‘Our Greatest Blessing’.

His advocacy films have opened festivals in Melbourne, Frankfurt and Sarajevo and featured in articles for the Wall Street Journal International, Medium, The Australian, Independent Australia, ABC Australia, The Guardian, and Australian National Geographic to name a few.

Importantly, his stories have changed the outcome of many lives, successfully lobbying governments to protect the animals, the people, and the places we love.