ALT EFF 2021

Midnight Tails

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15 films in package
Fat Kathy
The film is a philosophical treatise on the dependence of people on nature, and the world around them.
The Tracker
Mutinda was single handedly decimating the wildlife population in Kenya, until he was presented with another option that would allow him to use his tracking skills for good.
Sky Aelans
Indigenous communities from the Solomon Islands reflect upon the sacred connection they hold with the high mountain forests, ‘Sky Aelans’, that are at risk of being lost to logging.
Shaba
Shaba is about the relationships between the first women elephant keepers of Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, with one special elephant named Shaba.
The Last Hop(e)
Is it the last hop for frogs, or will the common man reconnect with the natural world to usher in some lasting hope?
Your Tiger Our Forest
In Bramhapuri, human-tiger interaction leads to damaging conflict.
The Pangolin Man
One local man fights to save, not only the lives of the pangolins, but also the lives of his people.
Mt. Suswa - Life in a Volcano
Film about the wildlife and its adaption in and around the Rift Valley volcano Mt. Suswa.
The Crab Season
What is beauty when you are deeply visually impaired?
Shoot That Leopard
To mitigate human - leopard conflict, one man shoots leopards with his camera, another with his gun.
Not Just Roads
NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India.
ENTANGLED
ENTANGLED is an award-winning, feature-length film about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world’s most endangered species, North America’s most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.
The Ants & The Grasshopper
How do you change someone's mind about the most important thing in the world?
Sagarputra: Offspring of the Sea
The oldest inhabitants of Mumbai - the Koli fisherfolk, are at the brink of losing their livelihood because of the government's infrastructural projects.
Into the Dark
Chasing light in Earth's Darkest Places
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Midnight Tails will take you on a journey through the jungles - both concrete and biotic! Find joy watching baboons splay themselves across the roots of ancient trees; learn what light pollution and thinning ice can do to ecosystems that thrive in Arctic darkness; explore rapid urbanisation and the lives it alters; meet one man saving the lives of not only the Pangolins in Uganda, but also the people who hunt them; and teleport to France - behind the cliff of Etretat, where in an almost lunar space, a blind man with seasoned hands hunts crabs and lobsters. Whether you are wild or domesticated, this strand is for you.

In the mountains of northern Kenya, a Samburu community is doing something that has never been done before: building a sanctuary for orphaned elephants to rehabilitate them back to the wild.


The project is not just changing attitudes about elephants, it is changing attitudes about women too!


The secret to the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary's success is the special bond between a group of women keepers and one special elephant named Shaba.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    11 minutes
  • Language
    English, Samburu
  • Country
    Kenya
  • Premiere
    No
  • Director
    Ami Vitale
  • Screenwriter
    Ami Vitale
  • Producer
    Gaby Bastyra
  • Executive Producer
    Dawn Arnell, Nick Southgate
  • Filmmaker
    Ami Vitale
  • Cast
    Sabrina Elba- Voiceover
  • Cinematographer
    Ami Vitale, Chris Alstrin, Dane Henry
  • Editor
    Dave Allen. Chris Gent
  • Music
    Dave Matthews
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