Bears in Hot Tubs

Bears in Hot Tubs is an intimate short film co-created with Maddie Bear and her kin. Set in suburban Los Angeles, it reveals black bears as sentient neighbors navigating a shared landscape. Through poetic imagery and quiet observation, the film reimagines coexistence as an invitation to co-thrive with care, empathy, and respect.

Wolf Ranger

Currently in development, the Wolf Ranger follows the people, wolves, cattle, and working landscapes of Project GRIPH’s Co-Thriving Carnivore Corridor Co-Op. Filmed over multiple seasons, it documents conflict prevention through range riding, attentive livestock management, and sustained human presence. Through observation, camera traps, and multispecies storytelling, the film presents co-thriving as a practical, evolving way for people, livestock, and predators to share the landscape.

Kissing Sharks

“Kissing Sharks?” “Kissing Sharks” explores the unique shark–human relationships co-developed by Cristina Zenato and a shiver of Bahamian reef sharks through a post-anthropocentric lens. Drawing on participatory action research, grounded theory techniques, and qualitative methodologies, the project examines how collaboration between a practitioner and an academic researcher can generate deeper insight into sharks as ethically significant beings and challenge the normative lenses through which sharks and shark–human relationships are rhetorically constructed.”

Neil the Seal

Currently in pre-production, the Neil the Seal film will explore what it means to share space with a wild animal who has become a global celebrity. Moving beyond spectacle, the project will center Neil’s agency, biology, and need for space while asking how communities can respond with restraint, creativity, and care. Developed in collaboration with local seal biologists, residents, and others who understand Neil’s changing relationship with the community, the film will bring together scientific knowledge, lived experience, and local perspectives. Through visual ethnography and multispecies storytelling, it will consider how admiration can become responsibility, and how people can appreciate Neil’s presence without intruding on his life.

Read more about Neil by our collaborator Saia Nahir Bartes, PhD, Deakin University.

Living with Tigers

Currently in development, Living with Tigers will explore how the legacy of an iconic tigress continues to shape relationships between people, wildlife, and place in central India. Set within landscapes where tigers move between forests, villages, agricultural land, and sacred spaces, the film will examine how these animals are simultaneously feared, revered, remembered, and woven into local identity and livelihoods.

Developed in collaboration with local residents, conservationists, researchers, and cultural advisors, the project will bring together community knowledge, tiger biology, oral histories, photography, and participatory filmmaking. Building on the multispecies approach of Bears in Hot Tubs, the film will treat tigers not simply as subjects, but as active participants whose movements, personalities, and choices help shape the story.

Through the life and legacy of one remarkable tiger, Living with Tigers will ask what it means to mourn, celebrate, protect, and share a landscape with a powerful wild neighbour, and how coexistence might become a deeper practice of responsibility, reciprocity, and co-thriving.

Shifting Waters

Shifting Waters explores how humans and sharks share the same waters in very different ways. Moving between science, lived experience, and Indigenous knowledge, the film reveals that co-thriving with sharks is already happening, we just haven’t been paying attention to the places where it works.