A compelling, online, interactive documentary created by the Western Australian Museum and documentary production company Periscope Pictures, together with interactive experience developers Hungry Sky, has won Best Interactive Production at this week’s prestigious WA Screen Awards.  

WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the documentary Beneath the Waves was the culmination of six years of marine biodiversity survey work in the Kimberley and more than a year of digital production design.

“Periscope Pictures and the WA Museum have created an extraordinary online experience that allows people from around the world to discover one of the most spectacular and mysterious marine environments on earth,” Mr Coles said.

The interactive documentary uses content sourced through six years of fieldwork led by the WA Museum, and includes in-the-field interviews, remarkable action footage as well as images and information on species gathered from more than 475,000 square kilometres of ocean.

“Until now, much of the marine biodiversity of the Kimberley and its waters have remained a mystery. Beneath the Waves not only provides a unique platform to share this specialised research but also gives everyone a front-row seat to this spectacular region,” Mr Coles said.

“Periscope Pictures has captured the reality of scientists at work in the field and the majesty of the Kimberley and its marine world in an educative, engaging and world class documentary.”

Beneath the Waves was funded through ScreenWest via Lotterywest and is the result of a long standing partnership between the WA Museum and Woodside Energy which is now in its eighteenth year.

Beneath the Waves can be viewed on the Museum’s website at museum.wa.gov.au/kimberley/marine-life-kimberley-region. Partner agencies in the Woodside Kimberley Collection project include the Australian Museum, the Queensland Museum, Museum Victoria, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the Western Australian Herbarium.

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Media and Publicity Officer
Western Australian Museum
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