Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:360 Degree Films
The Great Australian Fly on the Web:Official Website
The Great Australian Fly
"How a national nuisance helped shape Australia and its people"Movie
57 minDocumentary
Plot
THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLY looks at how a national nuisance has shaped Australia and its people confounding our scientists influencing our lifestyle and defining the way we speak But is its value misunderstood The onehour documentary explores how this muchmaligned spoiler of the Australian summer is in fact a crime solver healer pollinator and street sweeper Wed miss them if they were gone yet we put huge amounts of energy into wiping them out Is it time to call a truce Directed by Tosca Looby and produced by Sally Ingleton the amusing and intriguing film pays homage to a muchmaligned invertebrate and the influence it has had on our world
