MOTHER'S DAY CHARITY MOVIE SHOW & TALK - BORN TO BE WILD 预约报名-活动-活动行

活动内容收起 展开

The charity movie show is held once a week on weekends. This Sunday we are going to hold an movie show for CHARITY on 13th May, the tickets and the half of the drink's price will be donated to an elephant orphanage which is based in kenya for saving the homeless baby elephants. As always, the seats are limited, we appreciate that you can contact us for the reservation first.

About he David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust:

Born from one family’s passion for Kenya and its wilderness, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organisations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa.

Founded in 1977 by Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E, in honour of the memory of her late husband, famous naturalist and founding Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Leslie William Sheldrick MBE, the DSWT claims a rich and deeply rooted family history in wildlife and conservation.

About the movie:

From the picturesque jungles of Borneo to the golden savannahs of Kenya, the imagery in this film is exquisite, to say the least. In the first ten minutes of the movie, an interactive map unfolds with enlarged versions of both Kenya and Borneo, a lush island located in the Malay Archipelago. We are then introduced to two women, one in each region, who have devoted their lives to raising wild animals in hopes of releasing them back into their natural environments.

Dr. Daphne Sheldrick makes up one half of this incredible care giving duo. Sheldrick runs a successful elephant orphanage in the Nairobi Game Park and specializes in rescuing orphaned elephants whose mothers have been killed by poachers. Primatologist Birute Galdikas runs a similar facility in Borneo, but deals exclusively with orphaned orangutans.

What was most interesting about the film was the dynamic between the women and their brute counterparts. Sheldrick possesses an insight into the elephants that’s rare and beautiful to watch unfold onscreen. As for Galdikas, she can read the orangutans so skillfully as if she were their own mother.

Based on the audience'sincessant “awwwww’s” and “oohhhh’s” reverberating throughout the dome, these interactions with animals were crowd-pleasers. Much of the footage played on the “they’re just like us” factor. Those endearing human-like behaviors are what animate the elephants and orangutans, turning them from orphaned infants to lovable characters in an eco-friendly narrative.

We see them eat, sleep, learn, play, and be vulnerable, showing that they are not much different from human infants. There’s an adorable scene where a baby elephant is clearly having trouble sleeping when one of the caretakers drapes a blanket over him, ensuring he gets a good night’s rest. In the Borneo facility, Galdikas cradles a baby orangutan who clings on to her for dear life, much like a child would.

To switch up the mood from time to time, the director also inserts some funny footage in the movie, like when the orangutans are caught eating soap while bathing or when Sheldrick’s staff plays soccer with the young, somewhat uncoordinated elephants. The movie is packed with scenes like this.

However, that’s both the peak and the pit of the film. It was director David Lickey’s intent to appeal to the emotions of the movie-goers, and he perfected that. But, no real solutions were given as to what people could do to help preserve the wildlife both Galdikas and Sheldrick had so compassionately dedicated their lives to, while the theme of man murdering the animals’ parents and demolishing their habitats was loud and clear.