All about us!

Jane (L), Carla (R)

Jane’s CV

Carla’s CV

Jane and Carla are the filmmakers of Love in Cold Blood, starring Mildred and Henry from Southland Museum. The film is part of a Masters’ Degree in Natural History Filmmaking and Science Communication at Otago University.

For more information on tuatara have a look at the Victoria University Tuatara website or our Tuatara page.

Jane Adcroft is from Perth, Western Australia. She studied Zoology and worked as a Zoologist in the Pilbara and Kimberly regions of Western Australia. Jane grew up on a rich diet of sunday afternoon BBC wildlife doccos which fueled her love for wildlife filmmaking. She is completely freezing in Dunedin, but thinks getting to hold a tuatara, see albatross, film sea lions and the occasional sparrow is well worth the cold!

Carla Braun-Elwert is from Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. She fell into filmmaking after emerging from a Biochemistry degree, in pursuit of the outside world. Her interests are far too many and as such she is easily distracted by reading, writing, running, mountains, anything ski-related, Germany, art, baking,…and Jane!

And here’s a bit about our movie stars, the Unlikely Couple-

Mildred has been around for ages, though we’re not exactly sure where she’s been. She’s like a rock, with eyes…

Henry is refreshed and rearing to go after a recent “personality transplant”- at the perhaps young age of 111.