Nature Needs You
Genre
Nature/Environment/First Nations documentary
Synopsis
While industrial resource developments continue to put at risk our natural and cultural significance, people across Australia are standing their ground for nature.
Co Production by
Balangara Films/Wilderness Society Inc.
Producer/Director: Mark Pearce
Writer: Mark Pearce
Cinematographers: Nick Hayward/Michael Fletcher/Christian Fletcher/Michelle Thomas/Joe Shemesh
Editor: Mark Pearce
Sound Design: Michael Slater
Music Composers: Riley Lee/Matthew Doyle/Magnum Opus/Mat Davidson
Awards
Winner: 1st Place
2022 My Hero IFF, California - United States
Winner: Outstanding Achievement - Nature
2020 Tagore IFF, Bolpur - West Bengal
Winner: Call-to-Action Film
2019 Sustainability Shorts FF, Illinois - United States
Winner: Best Documentary
2016 FARCUME Film Festival, Faro - Portugal
Shortlist
2016 Small Axe Radical Film Awards Oxfordshire - United Kingdom
Winner: Best Ecology Film
2016 Viva Film Festival, Sarajevo - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Finalist:Best Impact Film
2016 Social Impact Media Awards, California - United States
Winner: Top 5 Choice Award
2015 Environmental Film Festival Australia, Melbourne - Australia
Runner-Up:Best in Fest
2015 Climate Change Int. Film Festival, Oregon - United States
Winner: Cinematography
2015 Climate Change Int. Film Festival, Oregon - United States
Winner: Music
2015 Climate Change Int. Film Festival, Oregon - United States
Official selections
2022 Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Queensland - Australia
2019 Wasatch Mountain Film Festival, Utah - United States
2017 FIIN Festival Internacional Imagem Natureza, Parque - Portugal
2017 Tasmanian Eco Film Festival, Hobart - Tasmania
2017 SEFF Ecofilm Short Film Festival, Sighetu-Marmatiei, Maramures - Romania
2017 Frozen River Film Festival, Minnesota - USA
2017 Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Arizona - United States
2016 Life Sciences Film Festival, Prague - Czech Republic
2016 Jahorina Film Festival, Pale - Bosnia and Herzegovina
2016 IF of Sustainable Development Films - Ekotopfilm, Prague - Czech Republic
2016 Where Is The Horse Film Festival, Monterrey - Mexico
2016 Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival, Oxfordshire - U.K
2016 Vaasa International Nature Film Festival, Vaasa - Finland
2016 IFF Ekotopfilm - Envirofilm, Bratislava - Slovak Republic
2016 May Day Sustainability Shorts Film Fest, Illinois - United States
2016 Clarke University Environmental Film Contest, Iowa - United States
2016 Les Bois Film Festival, Idaho - United States
2015 International Green Culture Festival, Belgrade - Serbia
2015 Environmental Film Festival Australia, Melbourne - Australia
2015 Earth Port Film Festival, Massachusetts - United States
Distribution
SIMA for The Classroom (2016)
Planet Classroom (2020)
Environmental Film Festival Australia - Best Of Tour (2017)
Wilderness Society Inc.
Broadcast
Aboriginal Broadcasting Australia (2020)
BronxNet Television (2021)