Chasing Roo

Legally sanctioned harvesting of kangaroos in Australia equates to the largest commercial killing of land-based wildlife in the world each year. For some in Australia the culling of the country’s national symbol for meat and leather is an outrage. For others, it is an economically viable way of life in the poverty-stricken, deeply rural communities of the outback. Chasing Roo is an intimate portrait of the kangaroo harvesting industry, which confronts an essential question: Can one feel empathy for both the hunted and the hunter?