Chasing Roo
2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival
Duration: 34 min
Synopisis
Legally sanctioned harvesting of kangaroos in Australia equates to the largest commercial killing of a land-based animal in the world each year. Despite this, the practice is virtually unknown globally.
CHASING ROO is a verite-driven, intimate portrait of the Kangaroo harvesting industry from the POV of those who professionally hunt Kangaroos - in tension with wildlife rescue experts who have devoted their lives to saving the very animals being harvested.
Shortlisted for Academy Award® - Best Documentary Short
Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025
Production Team
Skye Fitzgerald is best known for a trilogy of films on the global refugee crisis. The first, 50 FEET FROM SYRIA, focused on doctors working on the Syrian border and was voted onto the Oscar® shortlist. The second, LIFEBOAT, documents Search and Rescue operations off the coast of Libya and was nominated for an Academy Award® and national Emmy®.
The third, HUNGER WARD, explores the impact of the war and famine in Yemen on children, families, and healthcare workers and was nominated for an Academy Award®.
Fitzgerald is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.