Katie Reul editor The Elephant Whisperers Kartiki Gonsalves’ documentary debut, “The Elephant Whisperers,” released on Netflix, shines a spotlight on the ways in which climate change and human encroachment are rapidly destroying the habitats of Asian elephants.
The film’s dire warning is subtly woven into a heartfelt narrative about forging family in unlikely places with elephant caretakers Bomman and Bellie at its core.
The duo raise an orphaned elephant named Raghu, whom they’ve cared for since infancy, as well as another calf named Ammu. “[Bomman and Bellie] are still understanding the process of what the Oscars exactly are, but they’re just overwhelmed with messages and calls and really happy to share their lives with such a large audience,” Helmer Kartiki Gonsalves told Variety. “I don’t think they’ve ever had this kind of recognition before.” Haulout For their documentary debut, Maxim Arbugaev and Evgenia Arbugaeva spent 3½ months in close quarters with Russian scientist Maxim Chakilev, who annually travels to Chukotka to observe one of nature’s wildest phenomena: the gathering of thousands of walruses on the coast.
But as the brother-sister duo came to discover, the horde of animals is far from cuddly. Frightened by global warming-induced displacement and overcrowding, the yearly spectacle results in record-high deaths and casualties among the species as mass panic ensues. “When I saw this, I was like, ‘Oh my god.’ In such a short time of being there — just for three months — you see this devastating effect of climate change, and it’s so clear,” Arbugaeva says. “It’s a fact.
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