Films

City Wild is our new documentary in the making! We’ll be launching a crowd funding campaign to raise the budget in late March 2011.The film is about the people who work and live in Dublin’s vast Phoenix Park in the North West of the city, an urban park which serves as everything from a wildlife reserve to a busy recreational space, and the residence to some very special mammals. The keepers, rangers and gardeners keep the balance between those worlds and have spent most of their lives waking up and going to bed amongst them. Check the website for more details of the film and the process.

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Zoo Rock Profiles: When the zoo closes for visitors the animals get to show their real personalities.

They were pulled from anonymity in the wild and taken to the bright lights of the big city where they perform for thousands every day. Guess what? It’s all gone to their heads –big time. It turns out that when they’re alone, zoo animals are behaving like rock stars.  A lot like rock stars. Each one thinks they’re a famous chart topper.

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Squinky and The Witch – is our first animation series for preschoolers; it’s currently in development but will be on your screens in no time at all.

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Crime Fighting Foley Monkeys: is also an animation series in development for 7-10 year olds. It’s a an action-adventure-slapstick packed series for children, with very clever monkeys!

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Forty Foot: Whackala completed the International Documentary Challenge in March 2009 and won Best Film of the Challenge! Leticia and Paul working in partnership with Aoibheann O’Sullivan created the short documentary Forty Foot. It has also won the Award for Best Irish short doc and the Audience Award at Stranger Than Fiction and is currently touring festivals. You can find out more about the film here.

This is what the Doc Challenge judges said about the film:

We picked one film that we all connected with … that film captured a place and the people with so much genuine spirit, ease and humour…

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After the Revolution: Whackala’s award winning documentary exploring the role and the subsequent influence of indigenous Mayan women in the Zapatista uprising. you can check it out here.

After the Revolution on IMDB

This is what the judges at NodoDocFest said about the film:

“[it] showed a clear historical context and evolution of what may be considered “third world” with a simplicity almost incredible in view of the complexity of the topic… For the simplicity of the editing and the close connection with the lives of the characters it was possible for the viewer to get carried by emotions and live the social status of the protagonists.”

After The Revolution Trailer HD from Whackala on Vimeo.

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Whackala…We Make Films.