{"id":769895,"date":"2022-09-15T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=769895"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:21:34","slug":"tiger-24-award-winning-animal-rights-film-scheduled-for-limited-theatrical-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=769895","title":{"rendered":"‘Tiger 24’: Award-winning animal rights film scheduled for theatrical release"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Were Tiger 24's kills defensive or offensive? Depending on whom you ask, T24 is a man-eater who deserves to be quarantined from potential human contact, or an innocent victim of man\u2019s encroachment into his territory.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

MATT GROBAR:<\/strong> Toronto\u2019s Elevation Pictures has picked up North American rights to Warren Pereira\u2019s feature documentary Tiger 24, executive produced by The Gotham Group. The film has begun a limited theatrical release which includes a week\u2019s run at the Laemmle\u2019s Monica Film Center (Los Angeles), starting September 30. It will subsequently release on all transactional VOD platforms in North America on November 15. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

JOHN THOMASON:<\/strong> When Warren Pereira set out to make a documentary about the most beloved beast in India\u2019s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, some 10 years ago, he wasn\u2019t expecting his movie to capture a controversy with global implications. He wasn\u2019t expecting to document one of the key animal-rights debates of our time. And he wasn\u2019t expecting to interview the families of loved ones whose lives were cut short by his subject.<\/em><\/p>\n

A labor of love for eight complicated years, \u201cTiger 24\u201d explores the fraught, and ongoing, saga of T24, the so-called \u201cking of kings\u201d in a prominent Indian tiger reserve who, over the course of Pereria\u2019s intermittent filming, allegedly kills four humans. The last of these deaths, involving longtime forest ranger Rampal Saini, in May of 2015, leads to T24\u2019s removal from the reserve and his transfer to a cramped zoo, and ignites a firestorm of attention from opposing sides. Were his kills defensive or offensive? Depending on whom you ask, T24 is a man-eater who deserves to be quarantined from potential human contact, or an innocent victim of man\u2019s encroachment into his territory…<\/em><\/p>\n

Pereira\u2019s film, originally intended to be an immersive nature documentary, becomes something more engrossing\u2014an examination of the thorny issues surrounding these murky fatalities, with history, bureaucracy and geography factoring as significantly as animal instinct. The habitats of Bengal tigers, Pereira shows us, have greatly diminished over the decades, owing to the popularity of hunting and the expansion of the human population.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not only are tigers hemmed in to smaller areas (less than 2 percent of Indian land); they often abut local villages, and in the case of Ranthambore \u2014 the scene of the crimes \u2014 there is no buffer between the reserve and the human community, just an easily scalable wall. We learn that, though a governing body is supposed to maintain standards involving dangerous tiger-human contact, its own regulations were not followed.<\/em><\/p>\n

The director, in his feature-length debut, narrates these details with deliberation and lucidity, suspecting perhaps that his movie will be shown in classrooms one day, or even a courtroom. Indeed, \u201cTiger 24\u201d at times feels like a forensic mystery, complete with eyewitness testimony and clear, illustrated timelines of the events in question. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

MATT GROBAR:<\/strong> World premiering at this year\u2019s Cleveland Film Festival, Tiger 24 is a finalist at the Jackson Wild Media Awards and has two nominations at Wildscreen Festival, where previous winners include My Octopus Teacher. Pic also claimed Best Documentary at last week\u2019s Burbank Film Festival. Pereira served as the film\u2019s producer, with The Gotham Group\u2019s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell exec producing alongside Eagle Egilsson, Howard Barish, Zach Mann and Stephen Nemeth. <\/em>SOURCE…<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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