Lyrebird wins Best Documentary at 2022 Indie Cinema Awards

Helsinki, Finland

Some beautiful news coming out of Helsinki, Finland for Lyrebird, which has won Best Documentary Film at the 2022 annual Indie Cinema Awards.

The final nominations for the Best Documentary category were Happy, When all that’s Left is Love, and The Message of the Lyrebird.

The awards is managed by Indie Cinema Magazine. Thanks to the jury members for choosing a quirky and inspirational Aussie bird doc. Congratulations to all 200+ collaborators on the award.

There’s a famous quote about Finnish story-telling…

The Finns don’t have fairytales about “dragons”… they tell stories about “flying snakes” (Lohikäärme).

“This was the kind of spirit I found in lyrebird which is infused in the documentary. Everything about lyrebird is magical, spiritual, artistic and weird, and so the story-telling naturally took an off-beat path to that of a traditional wildlife film.” – Mark Pearce, director The Message of the Lyrebird.