Every Little Thing at Luna

Details: Written by: Nita Teoh; Category: Arts & Culture; Published: 17 March 2025

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Every Little Thing
Photo Credit: Umbrella Entertainment

On a sunny Saturday, I headed along Oxford St to Luna Leederville to meet some friends and watch the documentary Every Little Thing by Australian film maker Sally Aitken.

Every Little Thing follows typical days in the life of Los Angeles resident Terry Masear in her humble pursuit of saving precious hummingbirds who have been injured in their habitat. She receives hundreds of calls from local residents who find distressed chicks and mothers in their travels and often right in their own backyard.

These tiny creatures come in an amazing array of colours – their plumage iridescent with beautiful shimmering light effects - all beautiful and unique in their own way. Terry tends them with loving kindness to restore them back to good health, with the aim of hopefully returning them back to nature.

This documentary is heartfelt across many levels - as well as learning what is involved with rescuing a hummingbird, Terry lives and breathes her all consuming passion of rehabilitating hummingbirds, knowing all the personality quirks and challenges of each of her feathered residents.

Terry also shares with us some of the challenges and traumatic life events she faced growing up as a young child and later as an adult.

Terry has found that in helping to rejuvenate and help another creature in life – one also rejuvenates oneself. It is immensely cathartic in that sense.

The cinematography throughout the documentary was amazing in capturing the magnificence of these creatures along with the slow motion flower photography which was rather funky.

All up a beautiful documentary to watch – if you are interested to learn about hummingbirds, if you are a bird lover or enjoy documentaries about nature – this will be a great pick for your next movie at Luna.

At one and a half hours long – immerse yourself in a story about courage and resilience and beauty in small things and big acts of kindness.

For further insights, Terry Masear has also published a memoir called “Fastest Things on Wings”.

Every Little Thing opens at Luna on Thursday 27th March with a special virtual Q&A at 630pm.

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