Guardians of Ua Huka Short Film

This short film passion project came about from a chance meeting years ago with a young naturalist called Liv Grant at a wildlife media event in London. In 2018 Liv got in touch and said that she and her colleague Annika Schlemm were planning an expedition to the remote island of Ua Huka in French Polynesia. They were going to research to critically endangered birds, found nowhere else, the ultramarine lorikeet and iphis monarch.

Being successful they want to bring along a third person to focus on media potential for the expedition. This is how Guardians of Ua Huka was born.

Having worked on this in my spare time ever since I returned from the expedition in September 2018, it is great to finally release it publicly, with the hope that it can be used by our partnered conservation charities to promote their campaigns.

Guardians of Ua Huka Credits

Starring: Tuhuna Sulprice 

Director: Ben Cherry

Producers: Ben Cherry, Liv Grant 

Camera Operator: Ben Cherry

Drone Operator: Annika Schlemm

Editor: Ben Cherry

Sound Design: Audio Uproar, Ben Wood, Matt Coster

Special Thanks to: Scientific Exploration Society, Rivers Foundation, University of Oxford, Christ Church College, Zoo Berlin, Zoo Heidelberg, ZGAP.

Associated with: BirdLife International, SOP Manu and Association Vaiku'a.