Sticky
is a short animated documentary telling the astonishing true story of
the stick insects from Lord Howe island. Why these particular
insects? Because their story is quite simply amazing. They evolved in
the rainforests on Lord Howe, a tiny speck in the sea between
Australia and New Zealand, and existed nowhere else. They were
strikingly different to other stick insects - robust, fast, jet black
and huge - islanders used to call them tree lobsters. In 1918 rats
were accidentally introduced to the island and quickly munched their
way through the entire stick insect population. Within a few years
the insects were extinct. Or were they? There were some tantalising
clues to suggest that they may, against all the odds, have colonised
the most remote, inhospitable place you can imagine. . . Ball's
Pyramid is the tallest sea stack in the world, as high as a
skyscraper, as thin as a blade, rising almost vertically from the sea
25km off Lord Howe Island. It looks exactly like a super-villain's
secret island. Seepage from rainwater supports just one patch of
bushes on Ball's Pyramid, and here in 2001 a team of scientists found
a tiny population of LHI stick insects, the last of their kind.
Nobody knows how they got there. Sticky tells a wonderfully
positive Australian conservation success story, celebrating the
persistence of life, the adventure and passion embedded in science,
and the little creatures underfoot.
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After
brief careers as a croupier, archaeological scientist and printing
press assistant, Jilli learned how to animate and has been gleefully
making things move ever since. You can find her work gleaming brightly
in many of the world's larger natural history museums, tucked into the
corners of broadcast television, screening at national and
international film festivals and flickering live anywhere that offers
an extension cord and a projector. Her ambition is to learn to tell her
stories so well that people smile even on days when they think they
have no smile in them.
Filmography
Bright Spots (7:50 / 2015)
Sticky (19:50 / 2013)
Predator!!! (8:15 / 2012)
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Studying
a Bachelor of Science (Hons)
just wasn’t enough for Katrina, she went on to acquire a Graduate
Diploma of Education (Primary) so she could learn how to successfully
teach primary aged kids about the awesomeness of the natural world.
Prior to her latest academic venture Katrina worked as a Publications
Officer at the University of Tasmania and Environmental Project
Officer at a boutique firm in Bendigo, Victoria. Her hope is to promote
wonder and
amazement in young people and make sure they have a deep interest in
the world around them.
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Inside Film March 2014: Long legs for Aussie animated short
WIRED February 2014: "New Animated Film WIll Break Your
Heart"
Popcorn and Vodka February 2014
WIRED January 2013: "'Sticky' animation celebrates
rediscovery of giant stick insects"
CartoonBrew October 2012: "Sticky" trailer by Jilli Rose

Cinequest, San
Jose, March 2014
Tricky Women Animation Festival,
Vienna, March 2014
SXSW Films For The Forest, Austin, March 2014
ANIMFEST, Athens, March 2014
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, April 2014
International
Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, April 2014
Future Film Festival, Bologna, April 2014
DOXA
Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, May 2014
Australian International Animation Festival, Wagga Wagga, May 2014
San Francisco Green Film Festival, San Francisco, May 2014
St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, May 2014, & Regional Tour, July 2014
Green Film Festival in Seoul, May 2014, & Korean Tour, 2014
Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, May 2014
International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker, Sofia, May 2014
Mountainfilm, Telluride, May 2014, & World Tour, 2014 - 2015
Brooklyn Film Festival, New York, May 2014
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, June 2014
Pineapple Underground Film Festival, Hong Kong, June 2014
Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, June 2014
Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series, Big Sur, July 2014 Free Range Film Festival, Wrenshall, July 2014
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, Vancouver, August 2014
Animal Film Festival in Suncheon, Suncheon, August 2014
Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, August 2014
File Anima+, Sao Paolo, August - September 2014 Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, September 2014
Environmental Film Festival Melbourne, Melbourne, September 2014
Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, September 2014 Catalina Film Festival, Catalina Island, September 2014 Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, September 2014 Kinofest, Bucharest, September 2014 Matsalu Nature Film Festival, Lihula, September 2014
Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur, October 2014
American Conservation Film Festival, Shepherdstown, October 2014
Oaxaca Film Festival, Oaxaca de Juarez, October 2014
Antenna Documentary Festival, Sydney, October 2014 Bend Film Festival, Oregon, October 2014 Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, October 2014
IUCN World Parks Congress, Sydney, November 2014
Napa Valley Film Festival, Napa, Yountville, St Helena, Calistoga, November 2014 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, November 2014 Hawaii International Film Festival, Oahu, Big Island & Kauai, November 2014 FICMA, Barcelona, November 2014 Klik! Animation Festival, Amsterdam, November 2014 Cucalorus Film Festival, November 2014 Sandfly Film Festival, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Jervis Bay & World Tour, November 2014 Red Rock Film Festival, Cedar City, November 2014 Butter Elbow Animation Festival, Chicago, November 2014 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City, January 2015 Belmont World Film Festival, Belmont, January 2015 New York Wild Film Festival, New York City, January 2015
Frozen River Film Festival, Winona, Minnesota, February 2015
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, February 2015
POW Fest, Portland, Oregon, March 2015
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Washington, March 2015
AFO International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc, April 2015
Stronger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, Canberra, August 2015
Borneo Eco Film Festival, October 2015
G2 Green Earth Film Festival, Los Angeles, October 2015
SXSW Eco, Austin, October 2015
Rights of Nature Film Festival, Boulder, November 2015
 SXSW Films for the Forest 2014: WINNER: Films Under 40 Minutes
St Kilda Film Festival 2014: WINNER: Best Documentary, NOMINATED: Best Film
San Francisco Green Film Festival 2014: WINNER: Best Short Film
Canberra Short Film Festival 2014: WINNER: Best Documentary
Antenna Documentary Festival 2014: HONOURABLE MENTION: Best Australian Short Film
Academia Film Olomouc 2015: SPECIAL MENTION of the Short Film Competition Jury
ATOM Awards 2014: NOMINATED: Best Short Documentary
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital 2014: NOMINATED: Eric Moe Sustainablity Award
Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series 2014: FINALIST
Adapted for permanent display, Melbourne Zoo, Australia
Selected for permanent display, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra, Australia

Director: Jilli Rose
Producers: Katrina Mazurek and
Jilli Rose
Sound design and music: Billy
Tankard, Billiard Productions
Cello: Kristin
Rule, performing "Clarity" from the
album "The Knife That Cuts A
Tear"
Narration: Nicholas Carlile
Patrick
Honan. . . Himself
Rohan Cleave. . . Himself
Jo Middleton. . . Henry Lidgbird Ball
Nemo Fields. . . Midshipman / Settler
Bonnie Jephcott. . . Sailor
Tamsin Whaley. . . Settler
Toby Channing. . . Settler
Gryphon Whaley Channing. . . Settler
Tycho Whaley Channing. . . Settler
Tim Adam. . . David Priddel / Dean Hiscox
Karen Micallef. . . Margaret Humphrey
Darren Rose. . . Nicholas Carlile

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