TO SKIN A CAT

SOUTH AFRICA / DOCUMENTARY / 2016
DIRECTORS: GREG LOMAS & COLWYN THOMAS

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
9.45 - 11.30AM / TRAMSHEDS THEATRE

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
4.00 - 5.45PM / QVMAG

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Short Film
UNDERSTORY TASMANIA, A PLACE TO CONNECT

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In South Africa’s powerful and enigmatic Nazareth Baptist Church (Shembe), every Shembe man aspires to own a leopard skin and this conservation blind spot means that leopard populations across southern Africa are declining. The culturally entrenched practice threatens an impending catastrophe. Leopard researcher Tristan Dickerson has dedicated his life to studying and protecting leopards – now his goal is to produce a fake fur en masse and convince the Shembe people to invest in the future of the big cat they too love.

“‘To Skin a Cat’ must have been a difficult film to make. The social terrain is treacherous. But it has trod gently, lain low and pounced quickly and true.”

- Carin Robinson