Loading Docs 2017 - Luckie Strike

This Loading Doc short follows cavers Dave Ellacott and Mike Allen on their mission to connect Luckie Strike and Junior Mudball, two vastly different cave systems at Waitomo. Luckie Strike features extraordinary rock formations, waterfalls, and vast caverns. Junior Mudball is as its name suggests, mostly mud. The short sees them at work, galavanting through streams, abseiling down crevasses and scraping through mud — and reflecting on what they love about it. Luckie Strike was picked by National Geographic for its Short Film Showcase. A longer version is in the works.

It might be a water course that you have to grovel down on your belly. It could be a chamber that's a hundred metres across and a hundred metres high. It's the unknown which makes it exciting.

– Caver Mike Allen

Key Cast & Crew

Will Prosor

Cinematographer

Melissa Nickerson

Director, Editor

Craig Gainsborough

Producer

Andrew Brown

Colourist

Al McKay

Post-Production Producer

Sandani Wijetunge

Production Manager