More penguin cinema!

This time it is Oddball & The Penguins, released in 2015. The film stars Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook and Alan Tudyk – and is directed by Stuart McDonald and written by Peter Ivan.

The movie based on a true story about Penguin Preservation Project of Middle Island, Australia. The island had a serious problem of both feral dogs and foxes finding their way to the island, driving its penguin population to the brink. The preservation project took Maremma Sheepdogs to become the penguin protectors, fending off any would be attackers. The project was a success and the penguin populations started to recover.

The movie centres on a sheepdog "Oddball" who becomes the protector of Little Penguins in the film. Though obviously altered to be more a family friendly movie, the story still follows most true points I've read about it prior to seeing this. It is a way production and end product than what you typically think of when someone says 'family friendly dog movie'.

Listen, I'm not a dog person, but Oddball and the Middle Island's penguin protectors are good in my books.

Another big thank you again to Rokki Muzik-Smith for this one. I actually had completely missed that this story was turned into a movie.