Pedder on film

Restore Pedder · 2024 · 33:25

Our award-winning short film tells the story of Lake Pedder — one of the natural wonders of the world, drowned in 1972 — and of the generational opportunity to restore it. Featuring Bob Brown, Tabatha Badger, Christine Milne, Rima Truchanas, Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick, Dr Kevin Kiernan, Jimmy Cordwell, Julie Gough and Tobias Burrows. Winner of Best Short Documentary and Best Produced Narrative at the Creation International Film Festival 2025, and Outstanding Excellence at the Nature Without Borders International Film Festival 2025.

Liam Meagher · Restore Pedder · 2022 · 3:28

Fifty years after Lake Pedder was controversially flooded, the original Pedder people, campaigners and politicians gathered on the shore of the impoundment. In an emotive ceremony, the crowd commemorated what was and celebrated what will be again.

Restore Pedder · 2022

The full 50th commemoration and celebration ceremony held on the shores of the impoundment, with the campaigners, families and politicians who will not rest until Lake Pedder is restored to its former glory.

Film producer Michael Gissing · Narrator Essie Davis · 2022 · 13:46

In September 2022, descendants of missing activist Brenda Hean undertook a tribute flight 50 years after her mysterious disappearance. In 1972, campaigner Brenda Hean and pilot Max Price went missing in an old Tiger Moth flying from Hobart to Canberra, where they intended to lobby federal politicians to act on the environmental crime of flooding Lake Pedder.

Restore Pedder · 2020 · 1:46

In February 2020 a crew took a submersible onto the Pedder impoundment to examine the condition of the original Lake Pedder beach. The results are extremely positive: only a thin layer of sediment dusts the iconic pink quartzite beach.

Restore Pedder · 2020 · 3:04

Eleven kayakers paddled thirteen kilometres from Scotts Peak to raise the Restore Pedder banner over the sunken lake, calling for the restoration of the original Lake Pedder and its surrounding environs.

TEDxBrisbane · 2021 · 11:51

Lifelong activist Christine Milne argues that big wins for the planet are possible, telling the story of Lake Pedder — flooded in 1972 after the campaign to save it was lost, and fifty years on a prime candidate for ecological restoration and a beacon of hope for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Part 1 of a documentary on the last summer before Lake Pedder was flooded (9:25).

Brief (1:20) Hobart television station TVT 6 news report as inundation approached.

Super 8 silent movie filmed by bushwalker and conservationist Arnold Rowlands on his last flight into Lake Pedder before it was flooded (March 1971).

Tasmanian Film Production · Libraries Tasmania · 1971 · 20:37

A last look at Lake Pedder in its natural state, through the eyes of the artists Max Angus, Harry Buckie and Patricia Giles and the photographers Frank Bolt and Olegas Truchanas, whose paintings and photographs recorded the lake and its pink quartzite beach before it disappeared.

ABC · early 1960s · 5:45

An ABC television report from the early 1960s on the plan to flood Lake Pedder as part of a hydro-electric scheme, with footage of the lake from the ground and the air and the case put by the campaign committee opposed to the scheme.