Community thriving in a
time of eco-social crisis.

Follow Susanna and Michael as they travel the world, exploring what makes communities thrive
through documentary film.

Storytelling for transformation...

PhD researcher Susanna Carman and documentary filmmaker Michael Murray, a husband-and-wife duo, collaborate on a storytelling and research project that delves into what enables communities to thrive amid an increasingly chaotic world.

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Rigorous
Research

Sourcing patterns of community thriving amid eco-social crisis.

Emmersive
Storytelling

Telling compelling stories in the form of documentary film.

Authentic
Engagement

Establishing a global community of WTF supporters and learners.

Michael and Susanna’s Story

Michael and Susanna have spent the past 20 years building a home and life within a rural land-share community in the Northern NSW Hinterland of Australia.

What The Future! marks their first professional collaboration inspired by community responses to fire and flood events in their local region.

The project documents their journey to uncover the inner strengths communities need to thrive amid climate change, and make sense of a changing world.

As co-producer and research lead, Susanna's role in telling this story is part of her PhD research at University of Technology Sydney.

This research is supported by an Australian Government Research

Training Program Scholarship.