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In Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Chasing Roo,’ Australia’s Beloved Marsupials Fall To Rifle Shots, By The Millions
The culling of kangaroos in Australia is explored in the Oscar-shortlisted documentary 'Chasing Roo,' directed by Skye Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald adds, “These competing realities of economically downtrodden communities that rely on the kangaroo harvest to make a living are in coexistence with these carer communities… that raise the juveniles that are orphaned. The grazers — those who own most of the land and raise the sheep and cows — have a pretty strong set of rhetoric, and they use terms like ‘Roos are in plague proportions,’ that’s a phrase you hear a lot,” Fitzgerald notes. “Instead of intellectualizing the issue,” he says his purpose was to “bring the viewer into this world that’s so hard to access… I wanted to do it in a way where it sort of hit you in the gut where you bear witness, literally, to how we as human beings treat animals.”
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