Brunswick Valley Landcare is very excited to be organising community screenings of three films at the Brunswick Picture House – you could call it a little fundraising film festival.
Proceeds from the tickets will go towards more tree plantings, habitat restorations and bush regeneration projects across the Byron Shire.
Planet Fungi: North East India will screen on Sunday, 15 October and will include a Q&A with the filmmakers on International Fungi Day!
Planet Fungi: North East India is a pioneering fungi adventure in the remote Eastern Himalayas.
Internationally acclaimed fungi photographer Stephen Axford and local tribal guides take us on a journey of discovery into a world of extraordinary, beautiful and bizarre mushrooms – a world beyond imagination.
Stephen’s images of mushrooms have been featured in leading science and nature magazines across the globe. His exquisite time lapses of fungi growing are showcased in several award-winning documentaries and now in this documentary, Planet Fungi: North East India.
Black Cockatoo Crisis screens on Wednesday, 25 October and includes a short talk from the Glossy Squad.
Black Cockatoo Crisis looks at the plight of our special cockatoos and what we can do to stop these threatened species from disappearing forever.
While set in Western Australia, this is a universal story of biodiversity loss and what can be done to reverse the situation. Western Australia’s iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south-west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats.
Owing to habitat loss and other factors, Carnaby’s black cockatoos, Baudin’s black cockatoos and the forest red-tailed black cockatoos are all under threat.
The Message Of The Lyrebird screens on Wednesday, 15 November and includes a short talk from a local lyrebird expert.
No other bird on the planet can do what the lyrebird can do. In 1998, wildlife filmmaker Nick Hayward captured The Life of Birds on film, in which Australia’s most creative song-bird imitates the sound of a chainsaw chopping down a tree.
The bird was filmed in captivity, but ever since then, the world of birding enthusiasts have wondered, do lyrebirds imitate man-made sounds in the wild?
This question begins a journey deep into the native forests, where a cast of characters help us not only understand the sophistication and complex artistry of the lyrebird, but what its message may be for humanity.
Tickets for the three screenings are $25 and can be purchased from the Brunswick Picture House website: brunswickpicturehouse.com.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
