BHIGWAN – A Tale of Wolves, Flamingos, and Village People is a wildlife documentary that I shot over the course of almost a year. It deals with a subject that is close to my heart: how can humans and nature coexist? Curious to hear more about my little passion project? Then read on … Last year, I was in the beautiful area of Salzburg in the little town called Dienten for a summer holiday with my family. We were hiking across alpine pastures and sat down at a little alpine hut for a refreshing drink when we started a conversation with our host about wolves. Just recently, wolves had reappeared in this area and killed two of his sheep. While I immediately expressed my fascination that wolves were coming back into our forests in beautiful Austria, the alpine hut owner got quite upset and pointed out that his sheep were incredibly frightened and therefore, these “problematic wolves” need to be shot down. He said, he has to deal with financial loss, and nobody needs wolves anyway. That got me hooked. I was thinking, in our rich and “advanced” society, have we lost our ability to deal with the positive fact that biodiversity seems to finally be increasing after many decades of so many species going extinct in Austria, and all over the world? Of course, we are talking about wild predators here. But is it still that same old attitude that we humans have the power to decide which animals...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 14 August