Bay Street Theater

Sun, 12/8, 6:00pm, 65 min
DIRECTOR: Mirra Bank

Q&A with Filmmaker Mirra Bank

PRODUCERS: Mirra Bank, Richard Brockman
EDITOR: Maxwell Anderson
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mirra Bank

Shot over two years in Zambia’s Kafue National Park -- one of the largest intact wilderness areas in the world -- No Fear No Favor illuminates the wrenching choices faced by impoverished Africans who live where community meets wilderness, on the front lines of Africa's poaching crisis. Left unchecked, the internationally fueled poaching that decimates Africa's wildlife will destroy the future of human inhabitants as well.

Mirra Bank is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker, whose groundbreaking films have reached wide audiences.  A selection of her previous films include: The Only Real Game, Best Documentary at the NY Indian Film Festival; Last Dance, short-listed for an Academy Award; Nobody’s Girls, a PBS prime-time special; and Enormous Changes, premiered at Sundance and Toronto. Bank is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, a  lifetime member of the Actors Studio, a MacDowell Fellow and film panelist, a member of New Day Films, serves on the Board of Directors of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and is a past president of NY Women in Film and Television and currently serves on their Advisory Board.