Catch all the drama of an incredible lion rescue in this once-off screening
|||Theresa Smith
Back when Animal Defenders International launched their Stop Circus Suffering campaign in South America in 2007 they could not have realised the far reaching consequences.
Bolivia was the first South American country to actually follow through with a bill to ban circus animals, which was enacted as a law in 2009, but that’s when the real work began.
Since regular police are ill-equipped confiscate animals, ADI founders headed up a small team to help round up 25 of Bolivia’s captive lions to relocate them to a Colarado, US sanctuary.
ADI founders Jan Creamer and TIm Phillips turned filmmakers and captured the round-up efforts in documentary Lion Ark.
The 90-minute long documentary will have its South African debut on the big screen screen at The Labia in Cape Town on Thursday September 29 at 6.15pm and Creamer and Phillips will be on hand for a Q&A afterwards.
Tickets are R60 from webtickets.co.za
Lion Ark has been updated with a few new scenes added the end, but the filmmakers will also screen a 6-minute long short films about their more recent efforts to transport 33 lions from Peru and Columbia to Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in South AFrica.
• The Joburg screening takes place on October 1 at 5pm at Nouveau Rosebank, book through the Ster kinekor website.
For more information about the documentary go to www.lionarkthemovie.com