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Meet Puff, the tiny movie star set to steal summer
By Amy Price
Imagine you're cast at birth into a galaxy of tiny drifting creatures.
That's how life begins for this little sharp-nose pufferfish.
Meet Puff,  who with the help of actor Rose Byrne, is set to shine a big spotlight on the tiniest creatures of the Great Barrier Reef this summer.
Video courtesy of Netflix
Puff is the star of Australia’s first Netflix original documentary, Puff: Wonders of the Reef, and is taking viewers into his vibrant coral reef microverse. 
Video courtesy of Netflix
The film follows the journey of the baby pufferfish, as big as a fingernail, as it navigates its first year of life on the Reef.
Video courtesy of Netflix
Using groundbreaking super-macro filming techniques — a triumph of Queensland ingenuity — the documentary takes viewers right into the tiny world of Puff.
Video courtesy of Netflix
BioQuest Studios in Port Douglas spent 120 hours under water on the Reef over eight months to capture the incredible life of the puffer fish in 1cm by 1cm frames.
Rose Byrne, who narrates the film, describes the new documentary  as a “warning wrapped in a love letter”.
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Rose Byrne
Puff is such an innovative, extraordinary look at the most microscopic wonders right here on Earth. Puff shows us what is at risk and what it will take to redeem ourselves as protectors of the one planet Earth we have.
Cinematographer Pete West established BioQuest Studios in 2016 to assist scientists and filmmakers see underwater worlds not usually accessible.
Image: BioQuest Productions
West linked with director Nick Robinson to create Puff and, at the request of Netflix, set about screen testing a number of fish species in aquariums before selecting Puff as their star.
Video courtesy of Netflix
The puffer fish, born at less than 1cm long, was the logical choice because it travels large areas of the Reef, is easily located and is toxic to ward off predators.
West said he hoped the film would show that losing the reef means losing the critical microscopic creatures that make up its biodiversity.
Video courtesy of Netflix
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Cinematographer Pete West
This film is not doom and gloom, this is just reality. It puts it out there very clearly that these are the effects... What we hope people take out of it is a greater understanding and empathy for the animals that exist out there.
																																								

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