Welcome to the Crowdfunding Campaign for our feature documentary ‘WILD THINGS’.

Your pledges fund a social impact and outreach strategy that will help the film to be seen by as many people as possible.

What’s The Film About?

WILD THINGS follows a new generation of environmental activists that are mobilising against forces more powerful than themselves and saying: enough! Armed only with mobile phones this growing army of eco warriors will do whatever it takes to save their futures from the ravages of climate change. From chaining themselves to coal trains, sitting high in the canopy of threatened rainforest or locking onto bulldozers, their non-violent tactics are designed to generate mass action with one finger tap. Against a backdrop of drought, fire and floods; we witness how today’s environmentalists are making a difference and exploring connections with the past through the untold stories of previous campaigns. 

Our Crowdfunding Campaign is a little different than most other documentaries. Why? Our film is finished - thanks to the amazing support of Screen Australia, Screen Territory, Screen Tasmania, Film Victoria and many generous donors just like you.

Why Do We Need Your Support?

Our film has a very important job to do. It needs to inspire people of all ages that change is possible.

We want our audience to realise that activists are ordinary people, who have decided that in order to save their future they must get involved and take action now!

If you are not in a position to go to the frontline, then we ask you to help us get our film out to as many people as possible

 by donating to our outreach campaign.

Here’s a trailer to our film!

Our film recently premiered at the prestigious Cinefest Oz Film Festival in WA.

This is what the audience had to say:

"After watching the film, I wanted to get more involved in the protest and learn more about climate change."

"I thought it was a powerful film that humanises those on the front line. It was inspiring and moving to see what young people have been able to achieve in regard to the school strikes."

"The way that they get into the mix of things, they genuinely fight for what is right. While they do have peaceful protests to raise awareness, they also actively protect forests and much more."

What Will Your Pledges Fund?

Your pledges fund a social impact and outreach strategy that will help the film to be seen by as many people as possible.

We want to go beyond the city cinemas and take the film out to the suburbs, and regional country towns. Most of all, we want every school and local environment group to watch the film and use its bespoke curriculum and action-based packs to help their own community strive for change.

Your donations will provide the funds to create these resources, roll out our Impact Strategy, promote and market the film across all sectors, and most importantly provide the film for free to schools and community groups.

• $10,000 to create and design Curriculum Materials and Action sheets to engage teachers at different levels to use the film with their students to promote Australia’s environment movement and learn how to take meaningful climate action in their own communities.

• $10,000 will be used to employ an Education and Screenings Coordinator who will prepare a “Host a Screening Guide” and contact schools and community groups across Australia to help them use the film.

• $5,000 to cover Marketing and Promotion. These funds will enable the film to be marketed to teachers (free screening to over 500 teachers to encourage them to use the film); DVD’s and creation of purpose-built online platform to deliver digital screenings to communities with Q&A sessions afterwards to help inspire change.

• $10,000 will enable us to provide the film and curriculum resource materials for FREE to 100 Schools and Community Groups at a costing of @ $100 per screening.

CROWDFUNDING TARGET $35,000

With your help if we reach this target within the first 15 days, we will go for a stretch target of $50,000.

The extra $15,000 will enable us to deliver the film and curriculum materials to an additional 150 schools and community groups.

The more people who see the film the more we will inspire particularly young people to believe that change is possible and get out there and stand up for the planet today.

With your support our film will meet this challenge and continue inspiring activists from all walks of life to stand up for our planet.

Tax-deductible donations

To make your contribution tax-deductible, please donate here via the Documentary Australia Foundation.

Meet The Filmmakers

Sally Ingleton, Producer and Director - Sally is one of Australia’s most experienced documentary filmmakers and has won awards across the world over the past 30 years. Her company 360 Degree Films is based in Darwin.  “Wild Things has been four years in the making and enables viewers to understand why ordinary people are taking extraordinary action to save their futures”, Says Ingleton.

Over time Sally has produced over 40 hours of award winning multi genre content for major broadcasters including ABC, BBC, PBS, SBS, National Geographic, Arte France, France TV, and ITV.

Titles include Two Mums and a Dad - Winner Best Documentary Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards, Welcome to My Deaf World (Nominated Best Documentary AFI Awards); 6 part nature series Penguin Island for BBC, ABC, Arte France and National Geographic; the 6 part nature series Devil Island for ABC TV, ITV, France TV; Kangaroo Mob for ABC and PBS; the award winning nature science documentaries Acid Ocean for PBS NOVA, SBS, SVT, Arte France and ZDF and Seed Hunter for National Geographic, ABCTV, Arte France, SVT and RTE Ireland which won an ATOM award for Best Environment film and was nominated for Best science documentary at the BANFF TV Awards. 

In 2020 Sally produced the highly successful 8-part series Jimmy Shu’s Taste of the Territory with Naina Sen for SBS Food. The series reached over 700,000 people on SBS Food Linear Channel, and 139K Video Chapter Views on SBS On Demand. 

Steven Robinson, editor -  Steven is a multi-award winning film and television editor. He has won two AACTA/AFI awards for Best Editing on the feature documentaries In the Shadow of the Hill (2016) and Inside the Firestorm (2010) and Best Editing at the Australian Screen Editors Awards for Choir of Hard Knocks (2007). Other TV documentaries include Filthy Rich and Homeless, First Contact. He is also notable for his editing on the Kath & Kim comedy series and feature film Kath & Kimderella (2012) . He has been nominated eight times for Best Editing at the Australian Screen Editors Awards.

Matteo Zingales, composer -Matteo has won the AACTA Award for Best Original Score for a Feature Film for two years running. In 2013, he shared the award with Jono Ma (of rock band Jagwar Ma) for Best Score for Not Suitable for Children (2012), and in 2012, Zingales, Michael Lira and Andrew Lancaster shared the award for Best Score for The Hunter (2011).

Antony Partos, composer - Antony is one of Australia’s most awarded screen composers. His feature film credits include Animal Kingdom (AFI Award for Best Feature Score)[2] The Rover, Disgrace, The Home Song Stories (AFI Award for best feature score) and Unfinished Sky (AFI Award for best feature score). Recent scores include Total Control and Mystery Road.

Michael Gissing, sound design - Mike has been involved in broadcast, production and post-production for over 40 years. His specialty is post-production with over 1,000 documentary soundtracks mixed and colour grade and online of over 200 broadcast programs.

Want to support us in some other - possibly bigger - way?

We are keen to speak to individuals, companies and organisations who can support our project in a more significant way — it can be financial or otherwise. Please contact [email protected] so we can chat!

Thank you for your support, every dollar counts!

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What Will Your Pledges Fund?

Your pledges fund a social impact and outreach strategy that will help the film to be seen by as many people as possible.

We want to go beyond the city cinemas and take the film out to the suburbs, and regional country towns. Most of all, we want every school and local environment group to watch the film and use its bespoke curriculum and action-based packs to help their own community strive for change.

Your donations will provide the funds to create these resources, roll out our Impact Strategy, promote and market the film across all sectors, and most importantly provide the film for free to schools and community groups.

• $10,000 to create and design Curriculum Materials and Action sheets to engage teachers at different levels to use the film with their students to promote Australia’s environment movement and learn how to take meaningful climate action in their own communities.

• $10,000 will be used to employ an Education and Screenings Coordinator who will prepare a “Host a Screening Guide” and contact schools and community groups across Australia to help them use the film.

• $5,000 to cover Marketing and Promotion. These funds will enable the film to be marketed to teachers (free screening to over 500 teachers to encourage them to use the film); DVD’s and creation of purpose-built online platform to deliver digital screenings to communities with Q&A sessions afterwards to help inspire change.

• $10,000 will enable us to provide the film and curriculum resource materials for FREE to 100 Schools and Community Groups at a costing of @ $100 per screening.

CROWDFUNDING TARGET $35,000

With your help if we reach this target within the first 15 days, we will go for a stretch target of $50,000.

The extra $15,000 will enable us to deliver the film and curriculum materials to an additional 150 schools and community groups.

The more people who see the film the more we will inspire particularly young people to believe that change is possible and get out there and stand up for the planet today.

With your support our film will meet this challenge and continue inspiring activists from all walks of life to stand up for our planet. 

Tax-deductible donations

To make your contribution tax-deductible, please donate here via the Documentary Australia Foundation - link above!