Ellis Park

Local title
Ellise park
Director
Justin Kurzel
Country
Australia
Year
2024
Festival
Kumu Dokumentaal 2025
Programme
Kumu Documentary

The Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world.

The Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary. A key member of the iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the multi-instrumentalist Ellis has been a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. The sanctuary was co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescue trafficked and mistreated animals and then devote years to nursing them back to health.

This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both deeply personal insight into one artist's life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when people work together.

Director
Justin Kurzel
Cast
Femke den Haas, Warren Ellis
Producer
Nick Batzias, Sandra Delpech, Charlotte Wheaton
Cinematographer
Germain McMicking
Production
GoodThing Productions
Music
Warren Ellis
Editing
Nick Fenton
Runtime
Language
Indonesian, English, French
Subtitles
English

Screenings

Kumu auditoorium KUMU
ScreeningEllise park
SubtitlesEnglish
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