Ellis Park, World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2024.
A heartwarming film was made about Ellis Park and premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival
A heartwarming film was made about Ellis Park and the efforts to help the animals in Sumatra. The Film 'Ellis Park' premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 10, 2024. It will definitely tour the world, so keep an eye on screenings in your area.
Summary
A key member of iconic Australian bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as well as a prolific film score composer (The Proposition; Hell or High Water, MIFF 2016), multi-instrumentalist Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in Australian music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft, however, lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health, Ellis Park is a beacon of kindness in a world that sometimes has precious little of it to spare.
Review
A review of the film by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/13/ellis-park-review-like-its-subject-warren-ellis-documentary-moves-to-the-beat-of-its-own-drum
