Dom and Pip Boyton are second-generation oyster farmers, running Merimbula Gourmet Oysters and are the focus of a climate change documentary made by a longtime family friend Kim Beamish.

Beamish is an award-winning Canberra-based film-maker who headed south every six weeks to Merimbula with his cameras to film the Boytons at work. 

One year in the making the film, Oyster captures the daily routines, chaos and drama of a lively, hard-working second generation oyster farming family on Merimbula Lake on the south coast of NSW. 

A local story that goes to the heart of matters of global urgency - climate, sustainability, farming, the health and livelihood of rural communities, and the challenges and uncertainties that come with producing our food. 

Beamish - who has been a film maker for around 15 years and won numerous awards nationally and internationally - said he plans to tell the story of climate change from the perspective of the people who are most affected. 

“Rather than bombarding the audience with facts and figures, Oyster will present its audience with a story, a landscape, an environment and will follow the Boytons as they face practical, ethical and personal decisions about things that matter to them,” Beamish said. 

“The documentary will show them feeding their family, getting the boys to school, running the farm and figuring out whether to ramp up production to sell their oysters into the international market.”

Tickets cost $20 per person and are booked online only, visit www.oysterfilm.com