Note from Director Jeremy Purcell 

“Puffin Rock is a wonderful place to live, but what if it just doesn’t feel like your home.” During the production of the film this was a guiding statement for us, for how Isabelle may be feeling as a new puffin coming to live on a new Island, far far away from her home.  We always tried to talk about her character in the simplest ways, for us she is an 8 year old child moving to a new school or an 8 year old child whose parents have to work away from home. We tried to focus on universal themes and experiences for our audience. But sadly in the world we live in, she is also an 8 year old child forced to leave all they have known, not because of climate change but because her home has been destroyed by war. It was quite late in production when our Executive Producer Gerry Shirren, suggested the idea of making a Ukrainian version of the film. We absolutely knew it was something we wanted to do.’