Follow The Rain

Follow The Rain 
Directed by Catherine Marciniak  | Australia | 2023| 76 mins | Documentary | Rated G

World Premiere

In FOLLOW THE RAIN Stephen Axford and his partner in life and all things fungi, filmmaker Catherine Marciniak take us into their fungi obsessed world. They share their fungal finds in some of the most stunning wild landscapes of Australia –tropical islands, ancient rainforests, the hostile majesty of the desert.  

We discover the creepiness of zombie fungi and the wonder of the Australian ghost fungus.  They take us behind the scenes into their fungarium, revealing what they observe as they record the life and death of mushrooms and mycelium growing in spellbinding time-lapses. 

They meet mycologists who reveal mind-expanding science. And they unearth new and charismatic species. Their mission is to FOLLOW THE RAIN to find out where fungi fit into the world of living things.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Catherine Marciniak and Stephen Axford with television presenter Liz Ellis.

“I am awestruck. Catherine and Stephen have used all their passion, craft, wit and humanity to create something rich and moving. It is a wonderfully layered love story - an ode to fungi, to nature, to Stephen’s photography, to their own relationship.” - Sonya Pemberton, Emmy Award Winning filmmaker  

“It’s a completely new way of seeing fungi in nature.” - Dr Tom May, Mycologist and Senior Botanist Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria