South African rhino documentary wins conservation award in New York

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South African rhino documentary wins conservation award in New York --

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:29

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The Wildlife Conservation Film Festival has announced in New York that the film Horn, directed by South African filmmaker Dr Reina-Marie Loader, has won the 2015 award for Best Conservation Film. The award will be presented at a ceremony on 23 October 2015. Dr Loader will also speak at the parallel Biodiversity Conference in New York.

Horn is a film about the usually neglected social side of rhino poaching. It highlights the social causes that drive people to poaching and shows that the conservation of rhinos can be a problem solver for disadvantaged communities.

A novel feature is that the film is a lived documentary , in which an actor is put into the real situation and required to take part in actual anti-poaching activities, so that a creative investigation can maintain authenticity.

South African born filmmaker, Dr Loader, runs her company Cin ma Humain in Vienna. She concentrates on socially relevant filmmaking involving human rights, conservation issues and how these are interwoven. She has won several film awards and nominations at festivals in the United States, Great Britain and South Africa. I am really thrilled about this! Being awarded Best Conservation Film at an international conservation film festival shows that the message of Horn is getting heard. While I am in NYC next month, I will surely speak up loudly for our rhinos - and our people! said Loader.

The cinematography of the film is done by David Cawley and the participant actor is Jeffrey Mundell. The music for the film was specially composed and recorded by the Viennese group Judo Push.

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