Movie Premier Follow the Rain - Merimbula

Fungi Feastival presents the south coast movie premiere of the feature-length documentary from world famous fungi hunters, Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak. "Follow the Rain" takes you on a magical journey into the weird and wonderful world of fungi. Visually captivating, a symphonic treat and incredibly entertaining, Follow the Rain is an exploration of the world of fungi the like of which we have never seen. It combines a decade of research and passion, magnificent fungi time-lapses and footage, and the most incredible fungal stories.

Following showing of the movie, Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak will speak on their experience and answer your questions.

In Follow the Rain, Stephen and Catherine invite us into their fungi obsessed world. They share their fungal finds in some of the most stunning landscapes of Australia tropical islands, ancient rainforests, the hostile majesty of the desert. We discover the creepiness of zombie fungi and the wonder of the Australian ghost fungus. They take us behind the scenes into their fungarium, revealing what they observe as they record the life and death of mushrooms and mycelium growing in spellbinding time-lapses. They meet mycologists who are revealing mind-expanding science. And they unearth new and charismatic species. The evocative score by composers Romano Crivici and Carla Thackrah layers the story with magical fragile harmonies and powerful rhythms, creating a vast primal soundscape.