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Conflict Tiger wins Grand Prize at 3 Festivals
We are proud to announce that Conflict Tiger directed and produced by Sasha Snow, UK (DCM 2003) has taken the Grand Prize at this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival (October 27 – November 4, 2006).
An excerpt from the Jury Report:
"Direction, photography, editing, sound, and music are combined in this film to achieve a masterpiece," says jury member Emmanuel Priou (producer of ‘March of The Penguins’). "We all loved the fact that the director kept, all the way through the film, a strong and personal vision to bring us this story. Although it takes place in a small area and involves few people, it is a real parable- a metaphor showing us how fragile our link to nature is and how difficult it will be to go back to a more balanced situation".
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It has also won the Grand Prize at the following two festivals: Planet In Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival in Toronto and EcoVision Film Festival in Palermo.
Information on the film:
Conflict Tiger is a coproduction of Scandinature and Sasha Snow Film Production for BBC, ARTE, Discovery Channel US.
Synopsis:
A documentary thriller that explores the increasingly confrontational relations between people and tigers in the forests of Russia’s far Eastern wilderness. The Siberian tiger is a secretive carnivore and a notoriously skilled hunter. People, too, are hunting the wilderness for survival. Man and cat have become predators in the same territory. The film's central character is a professional tiger hunter, paid by the authorities to eliminate “conflict tigers”, tigers that have lost their fear of man.
