Landcare Short Film Festival – Limited Tickets Remaining
Sunday, 21 September 2025 | 6:00pm-8:30pm | Event Cinemas Pacific Fair, Broadbeach, QLD
For the first time ever, the Landcare Short Film Festival will be held as part of the 2025 National Landcare Conference and is a national celebration of the passion, projects, and people driving environmental change across Australia.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of storytelling, inspiration, where the screen comes alive with powerful stories of environmental action and community spirit from across Australia.
The Landcare Short Film Festival is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the spirit of landcare and connect with passionate landcarers from around the country. Enjoy an uplifting night of inspiration, connection, and community. This is more than a film night, it’s a celebration of landcare in all its forms!
Note: You don’t have to be attending the conference to attend!
Film submissions now closed!
Filmmakers will be informed in the coming weeks if they have been selected.
This is your chance to shine a light on the incredible work being done in landcare and environmental stewardship through the power of film.
We’re calling on filmmakers, community groups, students, conservationists, and storytellers of all backgrounds to submit short films that inspire, inform, and connect.
Get ready for an inspiring night on the Gold Coast for landcarers from all walks of life to celebrate the incredible work being done around the country.
Categories/Film Types? Community action and resilience, environmental conservation, sustainable agriculture, First Nations stories, landscape restoration, future leaders, Junior Landcare, Coastcare, urban landcare, native fauna and flora, water and wetlands ….and people!
Landcare Short Film Festival 2025 Program
Session 1: Country, Koalas and Conservation
Session 1 features a series of short films focused on koala conservation, habitat restoration, and Cultural knowledge:
Koalas in the Big Scrub: A Conservation Dilemma (12:00 mins)
Big Scrub Rainforest Conservatory
Filmmaker: Patchworks
NSW
A standout story of habitat conservation with powerful footage.
Koala Hotspots (5:17 mins)
Save Mt Lofty Inc – The Toowoomba Region Habitat Project
Filmmaker: Mitchell Roberts
QLD
A snapshot of vital koala habitats and community efforts to protect them.
Bass Coast Landcare Network (6:18 mins)
Melbourne Water
Filmmakers: Michael Portway and Tim Brown (Grassland Films)
VIC
Celebrating community-led conservation and land stewardship.
Koala Climate Corridors – Bunyas to Border (6:10 mins)
Great Eastern Ranges and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Lockyer Uplands Catchment Inc (LUCI)
Filmmaker: Mitchell Roberts
QLD
Connecting landscapes to help koalas adapt to a changing climate.
Tree Project (5:27 mins)
Melbourne Water
Filmmakers: Michael Portway and Tim Brown (Grassland Films)
VIC
Empowering volunteers to grow and plant trees for land restoration.
THE CIRCLE: Fire as a Tool for Healing Country (7:39 mins)
Upper Shoalhaven Landcare Council
Filmmaker: Clare Young
NSW
An insightful look at collaborative traditional burning and Indigenous knowledge sharing.
Narrap Rangers (15:38 mins)
Melbourne Water
Filmmakers: Daniel King and Ben Pederick (First Person Films)
VIC
Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung rangers caring for Country, community and culture.
Session 2: Community, Resilience and Action
Following a short intermission, the second session will highlight community-led action and resilience.
This session showcases stories of local action, collective strength, and environmental restoration from across the country:
Thousands of Trees Project (3:44 mins)
Mount Roland Land Care
TAS
A joyful, grassroots portrait of local landcare work.
Urban Bushland Initiative (5:28)
Melbourne Water
Filmmakers: Michael Portway and Tim Brown (Grassland Films)
VIC
Reviving native bushland in the heart of the suburbs.
Bega River and Landcare Project (10:00 mins)
Bega River and Landcare
NSW
Landcare in action – restoring rivers, building community.
Roots of Resilience (13:04 mins)
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW NSW)
Filmmakers: Thunderbox Films
QLD, NSW, New Zealand
Cross-border collaboration tackling forest health and resilience.
Planting for Resilience Flood (9:22 mins)
Shoalhaven Landcare
Filmmaker: Edgards Greste
NSW
Community in action working against erosion and flood.
Manning Coastcare, 30 Years Past & 30 Years Future (6:06 mins)
Manning Coastcare Group
Filmmakers: Suzannah Cowley, Nigel Christensen (Nviro Media)
NSW
Celebrating the past 30 years of caring for our coast and looking to the future.
