film

Interspecies

Short film In Production

Climate Story Fund

Director

Lucy Walker

 

Producer

Aimara Reques

 

Producer

David Rosier

 

Producer

Julian Cautherley

 

Doc Society helped with

Development

 

 

A sci-fi documentary in which humans dramatically demonstrate and passionately argue that plants have as much by way of brainpower as they do beauty. What if they were actually communicating with us? If they were, what do they have to tell us?

Crew

Lucy Walker

Director

Lucy Walker has directed four award-winning feature documentaries: Devil's Playground (premiered Sundance 2002), Blindsight (premiered Toronto 2006), Waste Land and Countdown to Zero (which both premiered Sundance 2010). In 2011 Lucy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary for directing Waste Land, the story of artist Vik Muniz’s transformational project with recyclable materials pickers in the largest landfill in the world in Rio.

 

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Aimara Reques

Producer

Aimara Reques is Founder and CEO of Aconite Productions, a Scottish company making award-winning, internationally focused documentaries. With 30+ years in the UK film industry, she is celebrated for ambitious, visually striking films and international co-productions.

Her credits include AQUARELA (Venice 2018, Oscar-shortlisted, Sony Pictures Classics), ELECTRIC MALADY (BAFTA-nominated 2023), and THE BOY AND THE SUIT OF LIGHTS (Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand First Feature Jury Winner 2024 supported by Netflix).

Aimara has received two BAFTA Scotland Awards, a Fox Searchlight Award, an Amnesty International Media Award, the El Gouna Golden Star, and a Saltire Society Grierson Award nomination.