Using Filmmaking to Create Change

Today's blog comes from Award-winning Producer and Screenwriter at Story Telling Magic, Lynn Santer, based in Gold Coast, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------------- My love of wildlife and filmmaking began as a small child watching my father's homemade wildlife documentaries of Africa in the attic cinema of our London home. Neither of us could have imagined then that many decades later, indeed 17 years after my father left this mortal coil, my own wildlife documentaries would not only win awards all over the world, but they would be instrumental in helping to pass historic legislation in the United Kingdom that would mark the beginning of the end for the heinous and despicable legal trade in the trophy hunting of endangered species. Whenever my father visited Africa on business, he traveled with a tiny suitcase of clothes and an enormous suitcase of Super 8 camera gear. In every spare minute from work, he was filming wildlife, and he shared that love, that vision, and that passion with me. This fact has directed everything that followed in my life. My father was the quintessential Englishman and a paragon of integrity, intelligence, charm, and strength. He was my role model and my hero. The passion I hold for standing up at all costs against what is wrong to defend what I believe is right came from my father. None have held a candle to him. None ever will. My award-winning, hard-hitting documentaries unearth the deepest, darkest secrets of the trophy-hunting industry like never before. There are currently two films available: LAND OF THE FREE: IN THE SHADOWS and LAND OF THE FREE: OUT OF THE SHADOWS. The world premiere of the second film took place in London's House of Commons on June 29th, 2022, to an invitation-only audience of lawmakers, Ministers, VIPs, and celebrities. On November 24th, 2022, the Bill to ban the imports of trophy hunting passed through The House of Commons unopposed... [Continue Reading >>]( [Stage 32 logo]( Copyright ©2022 Stage 32, All rights reserved. 2711 N. Sepulveda Blvd. #427 Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266 Want to change how you receive these emails? [Update your preferences](. [Facebook icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Instagram icon]( [YouTube icon]( [Pinterest icon](