Director: Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau
Cinematography: Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau
Editor: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Halil Efrat
Produced By: Reel Peak Films
Client: The Orchard, CNN Films, Universal Studios
Trophy explores the complex heart of contemporary issues of animal conservation and commodification at a time when endangered African species such as elephants, rhinos and lions march ever closer to extinction. As Africa’s most iconic animals continue to vanish in droves, can the controversial practices of hunting and breeding actually help the numbers thrive? Can assigning a value to an animal possibly help conserve it? What gives humans the right to own animals and to decide whether they live or die? And is there any real future for a “natural” world in our rapidly developing, capitalist world? In Schwarz’s and Clusiau’s richly cinematic safari, anything is possible, and nothing is as you would expect.