The film "Conflict Tiger" by British director Sasha Snow has been nominated for Best International Environmental Film of the Decade at The Green Globe Awards in LA. The winner is decided by public vote and will be announced on March 23rd at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
If you would like to support the production that was developed at the Documentary Campus Masterschool in 2003, you can join the viewer's choice voting by following the link below.
Note: You can also leave questions blank and submit a partially complete ballot if you do not have an opinion on certain categories. To find "Conflict Tiger" scroll down to the Environmental Awards section.
About "Conflict Tiger":
A documentary thriller that explores the increasingly confrontational relations between people and tigers in the forests of Russia's Far Eastern wilderness. The Siberian tiger is a secretive and elusive carnivore and a notoriously skilled hunter. People, too, are hunting to survive in the wilderness. Man and cat have become predators in the same territory and confrontations are on the rise.
The film's central character is a professional tiger hunter called Yuri Trush, a man paid by the authorities to track down and eliminate "conflict tigers," tigers that have lost their fear of man. The film takes Yuri's most notorious pursuit of a double man-eating tiger as the basis for its dramatic narrative. The drama is realised using a combination of reconstruction and actual footage shot by Yuri himself as events unfolded.
"Conflict Tiger" challenges the cosy illusions of traditional "big cat" natural history by setting the animal's precarious situation against the pressing needs of human survival.