Battling Extinction (inSight)
Fighting for our forgotten mammals. Filmmaker: Sarah Cull-Luketina Our two bat species are on the downwards spiral to extinction. Unless something is done soon they will disappear forever. The odds are stacked against them: predators and extensive habitat damage have meant they are just holding on in tiny pockets around the country. And to complicate […]
Pest Free? (inSight)
Can New Zealand achieve the impossible? Filmmaker: Braydon Moloney Ever so topical given the government’s recent decision to make New Zealand ‘predator free’ by 2050, this film looks at what it will take to be pest free. New Zealand’s unique wildlife is silently disappearing. The culprits: a rogue’s gallery of introduced mammals eating their way […]
Music in Cerebro (inSight)
Composer and researcher Jeremy Mayall presents a trip inside the mind, exploring the impact that music has on the brain. In 2015 Jeremy, then the Mozart Fellow at University of Otago, collaborated with neuroscientists at the Brain Health Research Centre to capture the sounds of the brain. These sounds have been incorporated into one of […]