'They tied the elephant to the tree till it died and then sawed its face off – walk half a mile and there'll be another one. It's bad'
When Kristin Davis became involved with wildlife conservation, the combination of celebrity and cause probably seemed less incongruous. On holiday in a Kenyan safari park, the actor, who made her name as prim heiress Charlotte York in hit TV show Sex and the City, joined the hunt for a lost baby elephant when a Maasai elder waved down the truck in which she was travelling and raised the alarm.
She followed the trail for two days, and filmed what happened when the team found the animal, later named Chaimu after the lava rocks where she was found.
"She kept trying to charge us, she was so traumatised and angry. We had to cover her eyes and tie her feet, you feel so horrible...
When Kristin Davis became involved with wildlife conservation, the combination of celebrity and cause probably seemed less incongruous. On holiday in a Kenyan safari park, the actor, who made her name as prim heiress Charlotte York in hit TV show Sex and the City, joined the hunt for a lost baby elephant when a Maasai elder waved down the truck in which she was travelling and raised the alarm.
She followed the trail for two days, and filmed what happened when the team found the animal, later named Chaimu after the lava rocks where she was found.
"She kept trying to charge us, she was so traumatised and angry. We had to cover her eyes and tie her feet, you feel so horrible...
- 10/4/2012
- by Susanna Rustin
- The Guardian - Film News
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[1] As Salt director Phillip Noyce weighs the options for his next move, one long-gestating project has begun to pick up steam. Late last year, Noyce took over the helm of My Wild Life (formerly titled Our Wild Life), a drama based the real-life story of Kenyan elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick, and Nicole Kidman began circling [2] the lead role this past spring. As Noyce and Kidman got busy with other things, however, My Wild Life seemed to fall by the wayside. But Kidman is now officially attached to star, and with Mandalay Pictures working on getting the rights from New Line, the biopic could be hitting theaters during next year's holiday season. More details after the jump. My Wild Life has been in the works since last year, with Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) originally slated to direct. However, he jumped ship and eventually sued New Line for not letting him direct...
- 11/3/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
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The 1989 Australian thriller, Dead Calm, won eight AFI awards and simultaneously launched the careers of director Phillip Noyce and Nicole Kidman internationally. Dozens of Hollywood Blockbusters and more than two decades later, they look set to return to their highly successful partnership with My Wild Life. The film is a biopic of Kenyan elephant conservationist, Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick and retells Daphne's meeting of the fearless David Sheldrick, their falling in love and how she followed him to Tsavo, Kenya to continue his life's work protecting elephants. When confronted by poaching and the imminent threat of culling, Daphne took on the authorities to save the elephants she had fallen in love with.
- 10/27/2011
- FilmInk.com.au
I love "Born to Be Wild 3D," a thoughtful, insightful, and entertaining documentary from director David Lickley, and writer/producer Drew Fellman.
The film, currently playing at IMAX near you, just received the Critics' Choice Seal of Approval. It's that good!
After watching my fun interviews, please visit IMAX.com/borntobewild to help our endangered friends okay?
First stop, Morgan Freeman. Meeting the actor was a blessing! He is a great actor and an equally great human being. His fantastic narration anchors .Born to Be Wild 3D. and his storytelling voice pulls us right into the narrative.
In this interview, Mr. Freeman calls me the happiest person on earth
We also talked about:
His interest in working in .Born to Be Wild 3D.
The narrative constructs of the film, and was he instructed in finding the right storytelling rhythm?
Helping the helpless animals
I adore Dr. Birute Galdikas, the fairy...
The film, currently playing at IMAX near you, just received the Critics' Choice Seal of Approval. It's that good!
After watching my fun interviews, please visit IMAX.com/borntobewild to help our endangered friends okay?
First stop, Morgan Freeman. Meeting the actor was a blessing! He is a great actor and an equally great human being. His fantastic narration anchors .Born to Be Wild 3D. and his storytelling voice pulls us right into the narrative.
In this interview, Mr. Freeman calls me the happiest person on earth
We also talked about:
His interest in working in .Born to Be Wild 3D.
The narrative constructs of the film, and was he instructed in finding the right storytelling rhythm?
Helping the helpless animals
I adore Dr. Birute Galdikas, the fairy...
- 4/12/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Born to Be Wild 3D is standard scientific IMAX fare that trades on an indisputable fact: Ecologically friendly movies about cute animals are just about impossible to resist. That’s even more pronouncedly the case when they unfold across settings as exotically picturesque as the wilds of Kenya and Borneo, with sweeping helicopter shots of the savanna and jungles molded to close-ups of the sweet, sad faces of orphaned orangutans and elephants. Throw in the honey tones of Morgan Freeman’s soothing narrative diction and keep things to an astoundingly brisk 40 minutes and you’ve got a recipe for success, albeit of the sort that’s best seen as a companion to a larger trip (a zoo or science center visit, for example) than a destination in itself. Director David Lickley depicts the work and passions of Dr. Biruté Galdikis and Dame Daphne Sheldrick, the former a Bornean scientist and an advocate for orangutans, the...
- 4/7/2011
- by Robert Levin
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In July of 2005 I fulfilled a lifelong dream of going to Africa on safari and seeing all the amazing landscapes and animals in one of the last places on earth unspoiled by man.
I went to Nairobi, Kenya and on that trip I had a driver from my hotel ask me if I would like to go see baby elephants. I went without hesitation. It was then that I first experienced the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is basically an orphanage for baby elephants and rhinos that have been found, either lost, abandoned, or orphaned by poachers that kill the mother elephants and rhinos for the illegal ivory trade. That first visit was brief . tourist can see the elephants from behind a rope for one hour each day.
Close physical contact is not allowed because the orphans are being raised to return to the wild and...
I went to Nairobi, Kenya and on that trip I had a driver from my hotel ask me if I would like to go see baby elephants. I went without hesitation. It was then that I first experienced the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is basically an orphanage for baby elephants and rhinos that have been found, either lost, abandoned, or orphaned by poachers that kill the mother elephants and rhinos for the illegal ivory trade. That first visit was brief . tourist can see the elephants from behind a rope for one hour each day.
Close physical contact is not allowed because the orphans are being raised to return to the wild and...
- 11/19/2010
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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