The Oyster Film

Oyster is a feature length documentary capturing the daily routines, chaos and drama of a lively, hard-working second generation oyster farming family on the south-east coast of Australia. In conjunction with the Love Sea Food festival, Port Stephens oyster farmers are hosting a one off showing at Nelson Bay Cinema.

TICKETS NEED TO BE COLLECTED FROM THE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE, Nelson Bay.

Click here to view the trailer. https://youtu.be/TcVteuQKw_A

It’s a romantic picture of tranquil beauty and a life close to nature, attuned to the rhythm of the tides. But a few fellow locals swear the water’s getting warmer and the storms more severe. With the lake full of the famous gourmet’s delight, the Sydney Rock Oyster, which takes three years to mature, they are only one big storm or heatwave away from disaster.

As it’s highly vulnerable to pollution and changes in water temperature and salinity. There are diseases too and the threat of competition from a much faster growing non-native species, the Pacific Oyster. With the need to protect their livelihood an alternative crop is required.

Oyster follows Dom and Pip into their home, their work-shed, out on their punt and into the water, to see what it’s like to be raising two energetic young boys, while you’re working big hours to keep a few million oysters alive, and any decision you make to deal with the global pressures of the fickle luxury markets, climate change, environmental damage and increasing disease could have far reaching consequences.