The Web
The Web is a series of animated shorts, with each episode focussing on an endangered animal. The series is about animals living on varied habitats on different continents of the world and deals with their precarious everyday existence. Each episode tells the story of an individual animal, but also serves a specific function within the series, whether one of hope and cooperation or one of warning. The series includes mammals, amphibians, insects an fish. The habitats include rainforest, rural and urban environments. The films are not intended to be didactic but present an impressionistic and artistic view of threatened species. Nevertheless, the films are firmly based on scientific and ecological arguments. The Web provides stimulating and accessible viewing to heighten community awareness of the need to conserve threatened species.
Format: Animated documentary
Length: 7 x 5mins & 6 x 5mins
Year: 1994/1995
Producer: Fiona Eagger, Eco Productions
Narrator: Ruth Cracknell
Director: Lucinda Clutterbuck
Investors: Film Victoria, Australian Children’s Television Foundation, The Australian Film Commission, NSW Film and Television Office, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sales/Distribution Broadcast on ABC TV; orginally distributed by Village Roadshow; Rights held by Twenty 20 Productions; distribution rights currently available
Festivals/Awards: Australian Film Institute Awards 1993 nominated best animation The Web – Bandicoot; Annecy International Festival of Animation 1995 Special Distinction for TV Series; 1994 St Kilda Film Festival best Children’s Film; Sydney Film Festival 1995 Finalist in the Dendy Awards for Short Film; Japan Wildlife Festival 1993 Finalist; 1994 ATOM Awards Finalist Children’s TV, Finalist TV Series/Serial; Prix Leonardo Festival Italy 1995 Certificate of Merit; 39th Asia Pacific Film Festival; 1994 London International Environmental Film Festival; 1995 New York Expo; 1995 Festival Dessin Anime Brussels.