Oh Elephant!

Filmed on location in Kenya by Peter Frow and Caroline Spooner OH ELEPHANT! Tells the story of four orphan elephants, Dika. Ndume, Malaika and Edo. their parents being victims of poachers and the Ivory trade. The film was made for Elefriends a project of Zoo Check which would become the Born Free Foundation and narrated by it’s founder the award winning actress Dame Virginia McKenna.

We first meet the elephants at Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick’s DBE nursery in Nairobi National Park and join them at their early morning walk into the bush, then at the mudwallow where they learn to play again. We then travelled 12 hours by road to Tsavo East National Park where orphans are introduced to Eleanor the matriarch who will eventually introduce the orphans to a wild herd who takes them under their wing and will return them back to the wild.The film was sponsored with equipment from Ikegami, Sony, Vinten, Canon, Lee Filters PAG Lighting and Kenya Airways to whom the producers are eternally grateful for their support and to Cloud 9 Television where the film was edited. Special thanks to Bill and Gill Parkinson, Matthew and Suzie Allwork, David Sheldick Wildlife Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service.

OH ELEPHANT! Had a star studded charity premiere at the Odeon West End Leicester Square alongside the film Babar the Movie and to celebrate Dame Daphne Sheldrick’ receiving an DBE from the Queen. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Oh Elephant! was rated U by the British Board of Film Classification.