“Most of us don’t want to up and move to Mars just yet, so we’re looking for films that inspire us all to help save our asses.” — The Green Festival of San Francisco

Balangara’s Lobster and Lyrebird films will be part of the Rainforest Partnerships Films for the Forest at 2022 SXSW, screening at Rollins Theatre within the Long Center complex, Austin Texas.

The 8th annual International Nature and Environment Protection Festival has officially selected The Message of the Lyrebird to screen as part of the event 27-29 May in the Gödöllői Királyi Kastély [Royal Palace of Gödöllő] Budapest, Hungary.

Balangara Films has won two prestigious Awards of Merit from the IndieFEST Film Awards.

The latest Australian independent wildlife film, The Message of the Lyrebird was supposed to hit the screen at Cameo Belgrave in August 2021.

The Animalis Fabula Jury has selected The Message of the Lyrebird as BEST OF FEST for January, 2022. The film is now invited as a finalist to compete for inclusion in the annual Animalis Fabula Film Festival.

The latest Australian independent wildlife film, The Message of the Lyrebird was supposed to hit the screen at Cameo Belgrave in August 2021. The pandemic hit instead and the Australian premiere was postponed more than once.

11 years in the making, The Message of the Lyrebird will have an Australian premiere at Cameo Cinemas in Belgrave on 12 February, with all proceeds going towards the Sherbrooke Lyrebird Study Group.

The Message of the Lyrebird has been awarded two notable achievements from film festivals in the United States and India.

Nick Hayward became the Bronze Honour recipient of the Ron Taylor AM ACS & Valerie Taylor AM Wildlife & Nature Award for his compelling visual filmmaking on The Message of the Lyrebird.

Interview with Writer/Producer/Director Mark Pearce, and DOP Nick Hayward, for the Australian feature documentary The Message of the Lyrebird releasing in Australia soon, and playing at various film festivals overseas.

For thousands of years, the famed mimic has fooled, tricked and misdirected forest workers, bushwalkers and campers with the seemingly impossible skill of mimicking the sounds of anything it hears. Read more…

As a child, Iain Stych was fascinated by everything in nature. This began a travel bug which led him to working in various countries around the globe taking photographs, including Australia where his nature collection has stretched to hundreds of species, including the lyrebird for which his stunning photograph of the master mimic was used on the official film poster for The Message of the Lyrebird.

Take a walk into the forest with wildlife cinematographer Nick Hayward and behavioural ecologist and expert in the science of birdsong Dr Anastasia Dalziell.

As a multi-disciplinary artist who works with writing, theatre, film, animation, painting, sculpture, spatial design and installation, Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman explains why she makes art and the process of creating the 6-minute D'harawal Dreaming story, Yandel'ora which features in The Message of The Lyrebird.

Victor Dream Holder was chosen as designer and animator for The Message of the Lyrebird as the film required multidisciplinary techniques for a variety of sequences, from traditional rotoscoping to digital water colour art.

The Message of the Lyrebird, a film which investigates the deep understanding of lyrebird behaviour, its habitat, and the sacred connection between humans and lyrebirds, will have its world premiere at the 11th Wildlife Conservation Film Festival.

In 2010, Balangara Films was founded for the purpose of producing a small project entitled, The Message Of The Lyrebird.