"Warren Ellis credits his ability to sink his teeth into an idea as the secret of his decades-long creative partnership with Nick Cave - though Cave likes to joke it's because he was "fun to take drugs with". It's a stubborn trait the musician shares with Femke den Haas, an animal rights campaigner based in Sumatra who runs a rescue centre for abused and trafficked animals."
"A friend hooked him up over Zoom with Den Haas, who needed funding for a site tending to creatures unable to return to the wild, and the seeds were sown for Ellis Park, now the subject of a new documentary by Justin Kurzel. It's a quiet miracle of a film, held together by threads of shared love and devotion, in which Ellis comes to terms with his difficult past"
Warren Ellis credits his ability to sink his teeth into an idea as crucial to a decades-long creative partnership with Nick Cave. He shares a stubborn commitment with Femke den Haas, an animal-rights campaigner in Sumatra who runs a rescue centre for abused and trafficked animals. During early Covid Ellis sought a way to give back and connected over Zoom with Den Haas, who needed funding. That connection led to Ellis Park. A documentary by Justin Kurzel follows Ellis visiting his ailing parents in Ballarat, then travelling to Sumatra, showing tenderness, devotion, and human capacity for good through animal rescue.
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