Hello,
I'm proud to present the film King of Beasts we released this week, it's 86 min. long and it's not "mommy daddy pipi kaki" self indulgent kind of movie, this is wildlife thought provoking film in the hardcore sense, NO ROMANTICISM, only man versus nature and himself! Conservation, instincts, encroachment, this film is a fly on the wall documentary following one special hunter from Colorado on his quest for a wild lion with a bow hunt in Tanzania Tabore district.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/287509178

https://vimeo.com/287509178

The film is available now for a decent price on itunes, amazon, vodu and many other platforms.

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/il/mo...-beasts/id1445807317

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/King-Be...ovided/dp/6317581231

Thanks for your time
Would love to hear your thoughts on the film

Nadav
producer/co-director/editor/cinematographer of King of Beasts

Not a very good review from Hollywood Reporter that's in your link.

"A final title-card does adopt an unambiguously negative stance, however (the film is, after, all, "made with the support of the Humane Society of the USA"). Almagor and Harel indict Neilson and his ilk for "exacerbating the problem" by exploiting the relative poverty of economically downtrodden places such as Tanzania that welcome such free-spending foreign visitors with open arms."

Interesting, that you would post a movie that was backed by HSUS, clearly anti-hunting on a hunting site. Even more interesting that Mr Nelson would participate in such an activity.

Hollywood reporter seems to be just like the rest of them today.

Utterly stupid, and cannot see further than the tip of his sentimental nose!

He started quoting right from the beginning on fix hunting.

I do not pay any attention to anything from Hollywood!

All bloody weirdos, the lot of them.

Too impressed by their own self importance!

Looks to be well made.

Would be nice to hear what Aaron has to say about this film before I buy it?


Good huntig
Carl Frederik

Watching it now.

Well, does anyone knows if USUS actually supported the production of this film? If so, that tells me all I need to know

We just watched it. It was not a hit job.

We thought it drug on a bit too long . It made some very good points which I am sure the ARA will overlook.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Well, does anyone knows if USUS actually supported the production of this film? If so, that tells me all I need to know

That's what the review for The Hollywood Reporter states and here the review:

Tomer Almagor and Nadav Harel's wildlife-themed documentary world-premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in northern Germany.
Oscar Wilde pithily dissed fox-hunting as "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable," a withering dismissal which might apply to those 21st century big-game hunters who can be seen grinningly posing with their kills across social media. Seeking to go beyond the outrage such images — particularly those commemorating the killing of famous Zimbabwean lion "Cecil" in 2015 — regularly stoke, Tomer Almagor and Nadav Harel's King of Beasts is a deliberately disturbing documentary portrait of one lion-killer who genuinely believes he's doing the species (and their human neighbors) a big favor.

World-premiering at Oldenburg in northern Germany, this American production is a more mainstream-oriented and conventional affair than Ulrich Seidl's clinical, widely screened Safari (2016), which dealt with similar subject matter. With relative newcomers Almagor and Harel lacking the cachet of Seidl's name, however, this up-close-and-personal immersion in a world many actively avoid experiencing in any way will likely fare best at non-fiction festivals and via small-screen exposure.

The directors are careful to be even-handed in their portrayal of their main protagonist Aaron Neilson, a burly thirtysomething dude with bulging tattooed muscles and what he himself describes as an "A-type personality." Working as a hunting guide in Colorado, Neilson — whose living room she shares with several stuffed big cats, diorama-style — clearly lives for his trips to Tanzania, where he goes after his prey with steely determination and considerable patience.

Indeed, the actual moments of violent death in King of Beasts are few and far between: First to bite the dust is a buffalo, just before the half-hour mark, whose carcass provides dinner for Neilson, his safari companeros and their entourage of paid native servants, and also serves as bait for the crew's bigger targets. A hippo is also slain for the latter purpose, setting us up for the climactic encounter with the king of the jungle, an "old lion" who shows up just after the hour mark, and whom Neilson goes after using the old-school method of bow and arrow.

As well as shedding light on the mechanics of safari hunting — which involves a lot of patience, waiting and downtime — King of Beasts illuminates as an exploration of masculine self-image (Neilson evidently sees himself as heroic and Hemingway-esque) and of how macho hombres engage with each other in close-quarters situations. One of Neilson's party is a greenhorned younger fellow mainly employed to flatteringly record Neilson's exploits for posterity via video in a series of carefully staged tableaux.

The main ethical risk run by the directors is that the simple fact of their having chosen Neilson as their subject will bolster his self-regard and contribute to the way he validates and justifies his own activities. They maintain a fly-on-the-wall neutrality, observing silently as Neilson and his buddies explain what they see as the economic and ecological justifications for actions many would condemn as cruelly repugnant.

A final title-card does adopt an unambiguously negative stance, however (the film is, after, all, "made with the support of the Humane Society of the USA"). Almagor and Harel indict Neilson and his ilk for "exacerbating the problem" by exploiting the relative poverty of economically downtrodden places such as Tanzania that welcome such free-spending foreign visitors with open arms.

Edited by Harel down to a no-nonsense 85 minutes and abounding in sharply telling juxtapositions and transitions, King of Beasts — like the majority of documentaries these days — musically gilds the lily at times. There are moments when Simon Taufique's music threatens the comprehensibility of the dialogue, others where it seeks to amp up the tension of events depicted with counterproductive results. But this is otherwise a work of admirable journalistic seriousness, one that goes about its business with a clear-eyed precision that even Neilson and his chums should grudgingly respect.

Production companies: Creative Monster Productions, Noprocess Films, Pride Games, Urban Tales Productions
Directors: Tomer Almagor, Nadav Harel
Producers: Bryan Gambogi, Gabrielle Almagor, Mark Steele, Tomer Almagor
Cinematographer-editor: Nadav Harel
Composer: Simon Taufique
Venue: Oldenburg International Film Festival
Sales: Gravitas Pictures, El Segundo, California (scott@gravitasventures.com)

In English, Swahili
85 minutes

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observing silently as Neilson and his buddies explain what they see as the economic and ecological justifications for actions many would condemn as cruelly repugnant.

There is it is,

I was waiting for this.

The stupid idiot writing this seems not to have any problems with the millions of animals killed every day to feed humanity!

It is the cruel hunter killing one animal is the culprit!

Typical of the masses living in cities.

They like to force their opinions onto others, in their total ignorance of the facts, and sentimentally claim they are saving animals.

There is a Canadian show on Youtube that show pranks being played on the public.

Many instances of these stupid idiots happily eating a burger change to total disgust as they are shown an animal being killed!

They seem to totally be oblivious that there will be no life if there was no death!

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They seem to totally be oblivious that there will be no life if there was no death!

That is it!

In a perfect nutshell, that is it.

Yet so few non-hunters understand it.

The non-hunters have allowed themselves to be removed and insulated from the reality of killing and death.

And the anti-hunters have become so insulated from reality that they actually deny it and attack those who understand it.

On the one hand, they happily allow others to do their killing for them, and on the other hand, they condemn hunters for playing their part in the food chain.

I would call them hypocrites, but they are too stupid even to deserve that title.

Nadav,

I wish you and your team all the best.

But, my own observations while trying to watch the trailer you posted on Vimeo.

The music is utterly horrible!

It is bad enough, and loud enough to stop me buying the movie.

I do not mind quiet background music being played - and something less distracting.

This one I actually find disturbing to my ears.

Mind you, I find most modern music disturbing.

But this is supposed to be about hunting, and I would have preferred a more neutral tune, and not as loud.