Autlook Filmsales, one of the leading sales agents for feature documentaries, has acquired “Black Mambas,” ahead of its world premiere on March 30 at Cph:dox documentary film festival in the F:act competition section. Lena Karbe’s debut feature follows the first all-female anti-poaching unit at Greater Kruger Park in South Africa.
Autlook CEO Salma Abdalla said the film “is a very contemporary narrative on conservation and the power structures. The local anti-poaching female unit, run by white male leaders, are displaying the slow process of de-colonialism within the microcosms at the popular Greater Kruger Park.”
Formed ostensibly to protect the “Big 5” game animals in the park – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and African buffalo – the Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit is the brain child of Craig Spencer of Transfrontier Africa Npc, who “used the momentum of the rhino poaching crisis in 2013 as an opportunity to amplify his personal goals of education, tourism and economic-development within the conservation trade,...
Autlook CEO Salma Abdalla said the film “is a very contemporary narrative on conservation and the power structures. The local anti-poaching female unit, run by white male leaders, are displaying the slow process of de-colonialism within the microcosms at the popular Greater Kruger Park.”
Formed ostensibly to protect the “Big 5” game animals in the park – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and African buffalo – the Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit is the brain child of Craig Spencer of Transfrontier Africa Npc, who “used the momentum of the rhino poaching crisis in 2013 as an opportunity to amplify his personal goals of education, tourism and economic-development within the conservation trade,...
- 3/16/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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