Saving Marion Island’s Seabirds

Film for the Mouse-Free Marion Project

Client

Mouse-Free Marion Project

Project Type

Video

About the project

Produced for the Mouse-Free Marion project by CCC’s Art Lewry and Morag Wood, Savings Marion Island’s Seabirds is a film created to support the island’s conservation campaign. Narrated by South African singer Zolani Mahola “The One Who Sings”, the film features evocative video footage taken on Marion Island by researchers Ben Dilley, David Hedding, Janine and Stefan Schoombie, and Otto Whitehead. We also hear from Dr Anton Wolffaart, MFM Project Manager, who describes the plan to eradicate the island’s introduced House Mice while Peter Harrison, MFM Patron; Dr Mavuso Msimang; and Her Imperial Highness The Princess Takamado, Honorary President of BirdLife International, all call for international support for the project.

For CCC it has been a real privilege to be involved with the MFM Project and to have had the opportunity to make such an important film using our creative skills to tell this story as powerfully as we could. It was helped by the fact we had such wonderful footage to use and an incredibly important message to get across in a compelling way.

The film went on to win a Silver Wreath award at the International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFAA) in the Documentaries, TV and Web Programmes: Wildlife and Conservation thematic category in 2024.

Marion Island, along with neighbouring Prince Edward Island, is a Special Nature Reserve, affording it the highest level of protection under South African law. https://mousefreemarion.org

CCC delivery

  • Project management
  • Scriptwriting
  • Co-ordination and recording of narration and video shoots
  • Production design and editing

Stills from Marion Island: Ben Dilley, David Hedding, Janine and Stefan Schoombie, and Otto Whitehead