Great Barrier Reef Netflix documentary makes splash

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Port Douglas-based BioQuest Studios is once again front and centre as Netflix’s first Australian Original documentary ‘Puff: Wonders of the Reef’, filmed in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, is available to be streamed world-wide from tomorrow. Image: Supplied


Port Douglas-based BioQuest Studios is once again front and centre as Netflix’s first Australian Original documentary ‘Puff: Wonders of the Reef’, filmed in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, is available to be streamed world-wide from tomorrow.

The hour-long feature documentary was supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Finance Program and produced by Wild Pacific Media and Port Douglas-based BioQuest Studios. 

BioQuest has been located in Port Douglas for nearly 30 years with more than 100 credits and have completed numerous projects during this time. BioQuest Studios is a media production company located on the doorstep to the Great Barrier Reef.  

Narrated by celebrated Australian actress Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, Like A Boss, Irresistible), Puff: Wonders of the Reef follows a baby pufferfish as he embarks on an aquatic odyssey, travelling through a wondrous, micro-world full of fantastical creatures as he searches for a home on the Great Barrier Reef.

In creating Puff, local production and cinematography company BioQuest Studios developed the super-macro camera techniques that so beautifully capture the glorious underwater world, up closer than ever before.

Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich said tomorrow’s drop of the Netflix nature documentary comes at the end of a huge year for local, interstate and international screen production in Queensland.

“Year to date in 2021, Screen Queensland supported a total of 37 films, series and games, generating almost $300 million in production expenditure and 3,750 Queensland jobs,” said Ms Munnich. 

Proud

Cinematographer and Producer Pete West of BioQuest Studios said he is proud to highlight the natural marvels of his home state to Netflix’s global audience of millions.

"Puff: Wonders of the Reef has given us an opportunity to showcase just a small part of the incredible biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef.

“We used cinematic techniques and macro motion control equipment developed especially for the film and for our work with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (Townsville) and other Queensland marine research centres,” said West.

Puff: Wonders of the Reef, The Steve Jaggi Company’s This Little Love of Mine and Dive Club, as well as Universal Studio Group’s Irreverent were all filmed in FNQ and are on or upcoming on Netflix worldwide.
Puff: Wonders of the Reef is a BioQuest Studios and Wild Pacific Media production for Netflix, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland.

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