Event

Series 4 - New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival

4th Annual New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival
A unique conservation, cultural and entertainment event.

Series 4
8:30-10:30

"Wolverine: Hyenas of the North"
Oliver Goetzl, Producer
Gulo Film Productions
45 minutes
Country: Finland
* New York Premiere

This one hour HD-special is a little wildlife filmmaking sensation. Meet one of the shyest predators of the Northern hemisphere: the wolverine. It is so elusive that even hunters rarely come across it. Wildlife photographer Antti Leinonen has followed wolverines for more than 18 years in Finland and has contrived a lot of tricks how to overcome the cleverness of the big marten.

In this way, the director Oliver Goetzl and the cameraman Ivo Nörenberg were able to film wild wolverines for the first time (it's the first full length documentary about this creature which has been done in the wild, only) and to create an intimate portrait with splashy scientific news of the "Hyenas of the North".

"Jungle Book Bear"
Oliver Goetzl, Producer
Gulo Film Productions
Narrated by David Attenborough
50 minutes
Country: India
* New York Premiere

Jungle Book Bear: We al know him, we all love him: Baloo- Mowgil's constant companion from the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling and even more the Walt Disney movie made this clumsy fellow world famous. The role models for Baloo are the Sloth Bears of India-surprisingly little is known about this secretive species. Mostly nocturnal animals the sloth bear has never been portrayed in a natural history programme before. Over a period of three years Oliver Goetzl and Ivo Norenberg not only were lucky enough to film these elusive creatures in the daytime but also got behavior that was not known to scientists before.

* Q & A with Oliver Goetzl

10:30
Reception with Filmmakers from Series 3 and 4