Anil Thadani’s AA Films has picked up the India theatrical rights of Warren Pereira’s feature documentary, Tiger 24. The film has been released in cinemas and on digital platforms in North America. It will have a limited release in India, starting with the Jaipur International Film Festival on January 8, 2023 and then in Bombay theatres soon after.
In Tiger 24, a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory, and is then declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanises massive social uproar with activists taking up their cause to the streets, online, on billboards and all the way to the courts. It won the Panda Award at the 2022 Wildscreen Festival and was a finalist at the 2022 Jackson Wild Media Awards, where previous winners include My Octopus Teacher. The film also claimed the Best Documentary award at the 2022 Burbank International Film Festival. Pereira is the film’s director and producer, with The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell executive-producing alongside Eagle Egilsson, Howard Barish, Zach Mann and Stephen Nemeth. Pereira’s past work has garnered top accolades, including the Cannes Gold Lion, and has been showcased at top international film festivals. Clients under his production company, W Films, include The Royal Bank of Scotland, Spectrum, Tissot, NBA, Hpnotiq, The Wall Street Journal and agencies such as DDB and CAA. Additionally, Pereira founded The Tiger Fund LLC, which produces content related to tiger conservation, including films for the government of India.
The filmmaker is currently in post-production on the feature-length documentary The Bamera Tiger, and is at the same time developing a horror film titled Scarebnb and the darkly comic thriller, Double Bite.
Anil Thadani is passionate about tiger conservation. Both, Pereira and Thadani, are native to Bombay and believe that Tiger 24, which contains exclusive footage of India’s most controversial tiger, should be seen on the big screen by Indians.