A film featuring Sudan, the last male northern white rhino is set to premiere in US Film festivals over the weekend.
According to Screen Anarchy, a film site, the film will confront the reality on extinction. “As a genre-focused film site, we are more eager to watch a wild white rhino creating mayhem in outrageous and unbelievable action sequences on the big screen, rather than confronting the reality of the extinction of the last male white rhino.
Yet a new film that will debut at the Slamdance Film Festival in the coming days is far more brave about it,” screenanarchy.com said.
In July, Ol Pejeta Conservancy said the film was one of those ‘close to their hearts,’“There have been news features and films made about Sudan in the last decade. But there is one particularly close to our hearts. For the last three years, we have been working closely with filmmaker David Hambridge to tell the story of Sudan through the lives of those that cared for him on a daily basis,” Ol Pejeta noted
The conservancy said the film, The Last Male Standing, was set to be released this year.
“It is a feature film that journeys beyond the global headlines that have accumulated around Sudan, and explores the painful emptiness of extinction through the eyes of Sudan’s three caregivers,” the conservancy said.
Mellisa Singleton, one of the reviewers said Kifaru, is set to be an eye opener on conservation of critically endangered rhinos.In the trailer, James Mwenda, one of the caretakers is seen singing the hymn Amazing Grace to Sudan while eating hay before he gives him a mud bath.