International Tourism Film Festival Win!
I’m beyond thrilled that our film The Last Cheetahs won Silver in the International Tourism Film Festival Africa documentary category.
Silver Award at the ITFFA 2025
Tourism allows us to meet new people and experience new cultures, new ideas and new perspectives. Done right, it can be the greatest force for good in wildlife conservation. And tourism filmmaking has the power to change the narrative, shift our perceptions and shape the future. A future, that for many wild animals is looking increasingly dark and gloomy. However, as this film hopefully shows, when we come together with a common goal and driven by a common purpose, through the power of tourism we can write a different destiny for our incredible wildlife.
In this film I really wanted it to have the feel of a love letter to cheetahs. To make the viewer fall in love with these incredible and often overlooked animals and to highlight the issues facing them by weaving research and narrative together to bring these issues to light. With cheetah numbers falling by over 90% in the last century alone it is beyond imperative that we act now and I hope that as more people watch the film, more will fall in love with cheetahs. If we can move the needle even a little bit what a story that would be.
And hopefully, with the right support and the power of conservation stories and film, we are not witnessing the last cheetahs…
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This film was produced with no backing, no budget, no big blue-chip studio behind it. It is just myself and a small collection of incredible people who shared a common vision to help cheetahs and to tell their story. Thank you. 🙏
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A huge thank you as well to the organisers of the ITFFA and to Hotel Sky for hosting this incredible film festival where filmmakers and tourism professionals from all over the world can share a space and share creative ideas. The festival aims to honour the best tourism films and documentaries from all over the world and stimulate the national and African audio-visual industry development. The festival’s seventh edition drew 448 entries from 60 countries.
