Chasing Roo
Best Short Documentary
Skye Fitzgerald
United States,
Documentary,
English,
00:34:00
CHASING ROO is an intimate portrait of wildlife rescue experts who have devoted their lives to saving Kangaroos in tension with professional hunters seeking to harvest them. Vérité-driven, Chasing Roo immerses the viewer into the parallel realities of wildlife harvest and rescue in the deep outback of Australia.
Film block:
DOCUMENTARY / ON NATURE AND ITS PROTECTION
Screening:
Palace of Culture Pernik, Hall 1
- Language English
- Country United States
- Genre Documentary
- Cinematographer Talal Khoury
- Producer Skye Fitzgerald
- Music William Campbell
- Editor Brady Darragh
- Year of creation 2024
- Duration 00:34:00
Skye Fitzgerald founded SPIN FILM to bear witness to unfolding crises with the intent to deepen empathy and understanding. Fitzgerald is best known for a trilogy of films focused on the global refugee crisis: 50 FEET FROM SYRIA was voted onto the Oscar® shortlist, LIFEBOAT was nominated for an Academy Award® and national Emmy® and HUNGER WARD was nominated for an Academy Award®. His latest film, CHASING ROO, was shortlisted for an Oscar®. Fitzgerald is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, rides his bicycle to ruin, and hugs three dogs on a daily basis.
