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Hall of Shame
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‼️‼️‼️ We're on to the House of Lords... the third and final reading of the Bill to ban the imports of trophy hunting JUST PASSED THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 😁🤩🥳🙌👊💪✌️ Thank you thank you THANK YOU to everyone who has helped in every way to get this historic victory across the line. God bless Eduardo Gonçalves and the fearless, tireless work he has put in on this. Now... WE FINISH THIS!!!
Best of Festival Win!!!
While we are all busy getting excited about our Official Selection at The Santa Fe Film Festival next week, this quietly happened…
We won not just an award but…
***** BEST OF FESTIVAL *****
at the Nature Without Borders International Film Festival, the sister festival of Doctors Without Borders. A Best of Festival win, and only a Best of Festival win, means automatic consideration by Worldwide Motion Pictures Corporation, Adler & Associates, and Cardinal XD Distribution for worldwide distribution. We are beyond thrilled and grateful for this important recognition from Nature Without Borders International Film Festival. Thank you so much on behalf of all the voiceless who need this story to be told.
What an honour for our second documentary - Land of the Free: Out of the Shadows - just being selected means the film will be eligible for an Oscar nomination! And we won!!
June 29th, 2022 in London - All Party Parliamentary Group on Banning Trophy Hunting
The group meets, AND, our second documentary, Land of the Free: OUT of the Shadows, has its world premiere…
This event is so important, we’ve created a whole page dedicated to it with images and articles.
On November 25th 2022, the Bill to ban the imports of trophy hunting passed unopposed through the House of Commons in London in a landmark, historic victory. In 2023 the Bill makes its passage through the House of Lords. We will keep you posted.
Welcome to the Hall of Shame
Here you can add your voice to our roar to ban the practice of, and the ability to practice, trophy hunting of endangered species. Our ongoing activities include but are not limited to:
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- Supporting and collaborating with lobbying and campaigning efforts to ban all shipment of all body parts of all endangered species on all carriers by sea, road or air from anywhere to anywhere in the world;
- Monitoring and where appropriate recommending changes to the CITES list of endangered species in collaboration with other groups involved with us;
- Continuing to be a credible voice where legislative changes are being debated;
- Supporting and collaborating with lobbying and campaigning efforts for changes in legislation that recognize sentience in all creatures;
- Exposing nefarious and subversive activities of pro trophy hunting lobby groups;
- Raising awareness of critical issues through a series of non-fiction and dramatized narrative films; and
- “Naming and shaming” the worst culprits on this site so you can make an informed decision as to where your vote and your custom goes.
Our biggest honor yet for Land of the Free
Better than all the laurels. Eduardo Goncalves, the founder and CEO of Ban Trophy Hunting, is THE number one most respected, active and credible person in the world in the anti trophy hunting movement. He’s published several books on the subject, received numerous awards, attracts constant media, was a key witness in the recent evidentiary hearing in the House of Commons, he has several major celebrities and heavy weight politicians in his camp, and his entire life is completely devoted to this cause. For us to be THE ONLY external group outside of the Parliamentary Committee linked to from his website (the other links are all Eduardo’s) is an enormous testament to the respect and credibility he gives our group, as well as recognition of the power and influence we are wielding.
He is working closely with us on our second film.
Yes, it’s a David and Goliath battle… but David won‼️
Together we WILL — WE ARE — switching the species on the endangered list to…
the trophy hunter‼️‼️‼️‼️
Click either image to visit the official Ban Trophy Hunting website.
Thank you to the Cannes World Film Festival for this powerful tribute from our win in August or 2021.
Please watch the tribute by clicking on the image.
Thanks also to the Mykonos International Film Festival for honoring us with another win!
The Sun in the UK , 21 October, published an explosive article on the World’s Worst Trophy Hunters.
Land of the Free
Is a brand that encompasses:
- A series of non-fiction documentary films with information gathered over 20 years including covert operations and collaboration with like-minded groups including but not limited to the Born Free Foundation, Blood Lions, Ban Trophy Hunting UK, the UK Parliamentary Committee on Animal Welfare and lobbyists based in Washington DC, South Africa, Australia and the UK;
- Lobbying and campaigning for legislative change;
- Bringing awareness, shining a light on the shadows of both people and organizations that have been flying under the world’s radar for decades; and
- Producing dramatized narrative feature films that tell the stories about how we began, the obstacles we have had to overcome and what we have achieved to date.
Why we do What we do
- Because the raw beauty, the ancient majesty and the undisputed magnificence that is Africa must be preserved both for future generations and to prevent a stain on the soul of humanity that can never be erased.
- Numbers of iconic and unique wildlife are plummeting due to habitat loss, climate change, poaching and trophy hunting. This isn’t just happening in Africa, and we do not confine our activities to Africa, but Africa is the most popular destination for (predominately American and British) trophy hunters and therefore a center of our attention.
Here is a reminder of what we can, we must and we WILL preserve…
Click on the image below to screen the video.
Music – Umusi Wethu by Mzansi Youth Choir Soweto. Composers – James Bassingthwaite, Alfred Phakathi Footage – Untitled Film Works
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