Wind & Sky Launches the Land Bridge Project

It’s been a long time in the making, but we are delighted to announce the launch of our most recent production, The Land Bridge.

Many thousands of years ago, during the last ice age, falling sea levels exposed the shallow Bass Strait seafloor as land.

Mainland Australia became connected to the great southern island of Lutruwita/Tasmania.

The humpback whale, one of the largest animals on earth, is part of the Bass Strait story. Humpbacks migrate through the Bass Strait in winter seeking warmer waters to breed. A species of baleen whale, humpbacks eat tonnes of zooplankton a day. Photograph by NOAA. CC BY 2.0.

The Land Bridge is a colourful, watchable and informative exploration of the underwater worlds, cultural traditions and above water remains linking us to the deep past landscape of the Bassian Plain. Produced by veteran film-making team and content producers Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks, the project combines documentary film, photo-essays and educational resources in an immersive, engaging experience.

Over the waves, on the land and in the sky category page from The Land Bridge digital story.
By Wind & Sky Productions. Source image: Ed Dunens.

The project was launched at the State Cinema in Nipaluna/Hobart on the 3rd December, where the documentary film was screened to a packed and appreciative audience. Palawa spokeswoman Nala Mansell opened the event with a rousing Statement of Country and the film screening was followed by a fascinating Q&A with panellists Jillian Mundy, Zoe Cozens, Simon Haberle and Neville Barrett, interviewed by producer Lucinda Horrocks. Fellow producer Jary Nemo made an easy going MC.

Wind & Sky would like to send a huge thank you to all our fantastic collaborators, amongst them First Nations knowledge-holders and creatives, scientists, writers, marine and Bass Strait enthusiasts, research groups and education specialists (you know who you are). Thank you for helping us make this project happen.

From left to right: Jillian Mundy, Zoe Cozens, Simon Haberle, Neville Barrett and Lucinda Horrocks in the panel and Q&A discussion at the Land Bridge Project launch, Hobart, 3rd December. Photograph by Madeleine Bessell-Koprek.

The Land Bridge digital story project was produced by Wind & Sky Productions and received funding through the Australian Government’s Our Marine Parks grant program.

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