Dreaming Tree Pictures creates beautifully shot, artfully told, emotionally moving stories with a message of caring for animals, nature, and each other.
Work
Buttercup
Feature Film (in Development)
Tom, the son of a dairy farmer, and Rose, an animal-loving vegan, grow up together on neighbouring farms. When a dairy cow wanders over to Rose’s farm to give birth and dies, Rose enlists Tom’s help to rescue the orphaned calf and names her “Buttercup.”
Edge of the Earth
Short (Post-Production). Directed, Written, and Produced by Bridie Latona.
Starring Bridie Latona and Anthony Hayes (“War Machine”)
After the death of her mother, a young woman escapes the noisy city to seek healing in nature and music at the edge of the Earth.
The Dreaming Tree
Feature film (in development).
A lonely London man inherits a castle from a mysterious older woman he meets once. The castle prompts him to have dreams as real as life in which he dreams of a woman the woman he loves.
The French Garden
Feature film (in development).
Based on a true story: in 1760, a French colonial ship carrying an astronomer, a physicist, three naturalists, a mathematician, and a woman disguised as a man lands in Tasmania where they build a beautiful French garden. 240 years later, as the surrounding forest is under threat from logging, can the French Garden's presence play a part in its preservation?
Rainsong
Feature film (in development).
A traumatised woman returns home to her beloved rainforest in remote Australia only to find it under threat from deforestation. With the help of Ben, a mystical musician who works in rainforest conservation, they fight to protect one of the world's last remaining virgin rainforests and all its inhabitants.
Feature film (in development).
A young couple rescue a koala from the Australian fires, which leads them to embark on a challenging and life-transforming journey of saving the koalas’ habitat from deforestation and the effects of climate change.
Eucalyptus
Short; Feature Film in development. Directed by Edilberto Restino. Written and Produced by Bridie Latona
Starring Bridie Latona and Ed Cooper Clarke (“The Crown,” “Downton Abbey”)
“Bridge over Blue” follows two young art students’ journey of discovery through London’s prickly modern art scene, with colourful consequences.
Winner (Best Actress & Best Film Director), Nominated (Best FIlm) at Rob Knox Film Festival
Official Selection: Lift-off Global Network (Toronto, New York, Tokyo)
Critical Selection, American Online Film Awards
Bridge Over Blue
About the Founder
Actress, director, and screenwriter Bridie Latona grew up in a glass-panelled house without electricity in Australia's Nightcap Rainforest, the location that inspired Disney's "FernGully: The Last Rainforest," and spent much of her childhood rescuing distressed animals and nurturing them back to health.
At the age of nine, she helped save a neighbour's distressed birthing cow; as the adults handled the mother, Bridie realized it was up to her to welcome the newborn calf to the world and cradled him in her arms. When she heard the anguished cries of mother cows separated from their baby calves on the neighbouring dairy farm - feeling their grief as if it was her own - it solidified her lifelong mission to care for innocent animals.
Bridie went on to star in films and theatre productions in London, was awarded Best Actress at London's Rob Knox Film Festival and Warner Bros. New Filmmakers Awards, and wrote the screenplays to festival-awarded films "Bridge Over Blue" and "A Brunette Kiss." Moving to Los Angeles, she worked with noted directors including Quentin Tarantino and founded her film production company, Dreaming Tree Pictures, currently in post-production on "Edge of the Earth"starring Anthony Hayes ("The Rover," "War Machine").
Returning home during the pandemic to the seaside creative hub of Byron Bay, Bridie now divides her time betweenAustralia and Los Angeles, and is committed to using film to spread a positive message of love of nature, compassion for animals, and a return to softness.
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