Film Screening: Tallaganda, University of Wollongong

Free community event screening of the documentary Tallaganda, followed by a Q&A featuring the film's Director David Gallan.

Hosted by Environmental Futures, University of Wollongong

Join us at the University of Wollongong for a special evening of documentary film, conservation, and discussion, featuring a screening of the award-winning documentary Tallaganda, a special screening of Understorey, and a Q&A with filmmaker David Gallan

📅 Tuesday 22 September 2026
⏰ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
📍 Building 20, Room 20-1, University of Wollongong
🎟️ Free Admission

Winner of the Best Documentary at the Far South Film Festival in 2026, Tallaganda features the conservation issues of the endangered greater glider, the academics who work to understand them and the activists seeking to protect their habitat in Tallaganda, Badja and Glenbog State Forests which are still under threat from industrial scale logging. The logging of Australia's south east forests is one of the largest and longest national environmental conflicts.

David's previous films include Understorey (2016), a key documentary on the campaigns last century for the south east forests, The Ambassador (2020), an award winning short starring the late Wynn Roberts and Koru Lian Timor (2024), a film about a Timorese choir touring Australia. Davids wildlife photography has also been part of the global Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the Nature Photographer of the Year exhibitions. His work is widely used by conservation organisations to raise awareness of environmental issues.

Director Statement:For forest researchers, the greater glider used to be one of the most widely seen species in the south east forests of Australia. Due to industrial scale logging, land clearing, mega fires and climate change, greater glider numbers have crashed and it is now listed as endangered. Yet the wasteful, degrading, loss-making logging operations continue in the key greater glider habitats despite public pressure and the numerous fines incurred by the loggers.