Fremantle Underwater Film Festival: 31 October, 1-2 November 2025

Name: Fremantle Underwater Film Festival: 31 October, 1-2 November 2025
Start: 2025-10-31T18:00:00+0800
End: 2025-11-02T22:00:00+0800
Location: Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall

Fri, 31 Oct, 6pm - 10pm AWST

Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall

Hamilton Hill WA, Australia

Tania Douthwaite

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ABOUT THE EVENT

You are invited to the 10th Anniversary of the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival where you will attend a memorable evening, showcasing the biodiversity and wonder of our oceans through a hand-picked selection of short, underwater films.

The official screenings for the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF) are held in the City of Cockburn, Western Australia this year. The festival screens just under two hours of short films in two acts, with an interval in between acts and is proudly supported by local business, Blueback Freediving & Yoga, and the City of Cockburn.

This year we will screen three evening shows, 6pm - 9:30pm, with 15-20 short films.

Founded in 2015, we are the only festival of its kind - donating 100% of the funds we raise through ticket sales for the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (31 Oct, 1-2 Nov) to marine biodiversity conservation projects. Your ticket to the film festival helps support critically endangered ocean life. So far we've raised over $60,000 through ticket sales for the protection of the critically endangered Maui Dolphin - with only 45 adults sadly remaining of this species.

Catering is available on the night and is NOT included in the ticket price for festival goers only. Dinner may be purchased at the venue - first come, first served until sold out. For those that wish to dine with us, we cater for gluten-free and vegetarian options. We recommend you park up early, walk across (1 min) from the free carpark off Carrington Street, turning off Carrington Street at the "Mint & Chilli" Cafe. Arrive for dinner between 5:30pm and 6:30pm to avoid disappointment. Enjoy a drink at doors open at 5:30pm, mingle with the crowd, find a steal at the FUFF Silent Ocean Art Auction, view a spectacular array of celebrated marine artists' creative works, discover the marine science and conservation projects happening on your local shores and find your seats before the show starts.

This year we will be joined by the 'Mermantle Men', a community men's singing group recently formed to share their songs of the sea with you prior to the films and at interval. Please wear your red diver's beanie and best nautical stripes (if you have them) on the night in solidarity with our band of singing brothers, our maritime heritage, community of ocean-lovers and those we remember who lost their lives at sea (human and non-human).

You can support our show by bringing cash for dinner, drinks, raffle tickets or unique, local ocean art exhibited for sale at our annual 'FUFF Silent Ocean Art Auction' by professional and amateur marine artists and photographers.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

To help out with a festival stall, volunteering, sponsorship or partnership with the not-for-profit Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF), please get in touch!

The festival is entirely volunteer-run and cannot survive without the help and support of the community to make it possible.

Donations to assist with the running of the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF) are gratefully received and can be credited online on behalf of your business or organization.

See FUFF contact info tab on the website www.fuff.com.au to donate or sponsor.

fremantleunderwaterfilmfest@gmail.com

0439770038

ABOUT FUFF

The Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF) is a not for profit, independent, grassroots social and environmental movement towards better ocean health. The Fremantle Underwater Film Festival is dedicated to making positive change for our blue planet.

We gift our time and energy to advocate for ocean health.

We created the FUFF to build a more sustainable world by bringing ocean stories, marine science and the transformational nature of the human-water connection into your life in creative ways.

Building a safe and sustainable relationship with the ocean is important to us.

OUR VISION, MISSION, VALUES

VISION

Healthy and connected, oceans and people.

MISSION

Our mission is to build a deep connection between human and ocean by bringing ocean stories, marine science and the transformational nature of the human-water connection into your life in creative ways.

VALUES

We protect the wild, conserve marine biodiversity, restore degraded ocean ecosystems, address direct threats to biodiversity and work to reduce our footprint on the earth.

We recognize the need to change the way we consume and the way we produce.

We know collaboration as a society on these goals will advance our collective benefit and ensure the sustainability of both our 'Ocean Life' as well as ocean lives.

We demonstrate commitment to our values every year by giving 100% of Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF) ticket sales to community not for profits, charitable organizations and local marine biodiversity conservation efforts that act to ensure ocean life persists.

FIND OUT MORE

See our FUFF website below to learn more about who we have supported to do the work.

Find out more about our program here:

www.fuff.com.au

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Tania Douthwaite

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Tania Douthwaite, is the Founder and Director of the

Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF).

As a marine scientist, master freedive instructor and creative OCEAN artist I've developed a broad and comprehensive background in marine science and creative communications that have been an invaluable compliment to my 20 years of experience working in ocean-related industries. My interests and expertise range from ocean science communication at state conferences to recreational fisheries management, community-scale marine citizen science research to being a program leader in the field of freediving safety and freediving for mental health.

In the underwater realm, I'm best known for my leadership role in the Western Australian freediving industry, championing the well-being benefits of trauma-informed freedive and respiratory education, as well as the life-saving education offered by certified freediving courses. I'm an action-orientated advocate for action for ocean restoration. You'll find me as much at home on a remote West Australian beach hauling marine debris out of a sand dune as you will on stage communicating to a crowd of people the importance of safe dive buddy practices.

I'm proud to be the creative director of the Feel Alive, Freedive Initiative established in 2018, promoting both marine safety and freediving for mental health and the Mermantle project established in 2020. The Mermantle Project offers community mental health services free to men through the power of song with the Mermantle Men program, while the Mermantle Youth Program supports young men in developing freediving safety consciousness, self-leadership and healthy mental attitudes for life through the Feel Alive, Freedive program. Hear my talk here about Pathways to Ocean Health on World Ocean's Day. As a former non-executive director of Recfishwest, the states' peak body for recreational fishing, the vice chairperson of the WA Undersea Club Inc. and a panelist at the 2021 Blue Growth Economy Forum I have enjoyed continued growth in my public speaking skills, advocating for ocean restoration-innovation, marine safety, sustainable spearfishing and deepening humanities' ocean connectedness.

I fund the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival through my work as a Master freedive instructor, mindfulness coach and pranayama (breathwork) teacher for the locally owned and operated, Blueback Freediving & Yoga.

By supporting my business, Blueback Freediving and Yoga you support my ability to continue running the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival - a grassroots festival that would not be such a success without the support of local businesses and not-for-profit marine conservation organizations, underwater cinematographers and the efforts of her local community volunteers who give generously of their time and resources to ensure the show runs effectively on the smell of an oily rag.

I'd like to thank my supporters over the past 10 years and make a special thank you to both creative artist, Marion Vanhaecke (aka 'Marion le Crayon') who created our beautiful, original festival logo and underwater photographer, Chiara Bussini (of Carpe Diem Holistic) for her beautiful underwater freedive portraits used on this website.

I BELIEVE EVERYONE HAS THE POWER TO TAKE ACTION

TO IMPROVE OCEAN HEALTH.

I created the FUFF in 2014 to build a more sustainable world by bringing ocean stories, marine science and the transformational nature of the human-water connection into your life in creative ways. As a creative artist and underwater photographer, I saw visual media as a powerful tool for helping to restore the health of the ocean of which we are all an integral part.

Our health and the health of the ocean are connected.

To help out with a festival stall, volunteering, sponsorship or partnership with the not-for-profit Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF), pl ease get in touch!

The festival is entirely volunteer-run and cannot survive without the help and support of the community to make it possible.

Donations to assist with the running of the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival (FUFF) are gratefully received and can be credited online on behalf of your business or organization.

See FUFF contact info tab on the website www.fuff.com.au to donate or sponsor.

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Fri, 31 Oct, 6pm - 10pm AWST

Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall

Hamilton Hill WA, Australia

Hosted by Tania Douthwaite