“The Eyes of Thailand” is a color, 45-min HDV documentary that explores the issues facing the Thai Asian Elephants at the world’s first Asian Elephant Hospital, founded by Soriada Salwala and operated by the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE).
The goal of the film is to advance Asian Elephant conservation by motivating the international community to pass protection laws in Thailand that align with the FAE’s mission to save every elephant in Thailand from abuse, injury, and exportation. While other documentaries have focused on the plight of elephants, “The Eyes of Thailand” goes behind the walls of the FAE Elephant Hospital and provides the audience an opportunity to look the injured elephants in the eye and meet the courageous founder, Soraida Salwala. This allows them to see their plight through new eyes and adds a sense of urgency to the mounting crisis: if laws protecting the Thai Asian elephants are not created immediately, the species will become extinct within the next 50 years producing devastating effects on the environment, as well as the social and cultural structure of the country.
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