How One Filmmaker’s Lens Sparked a Movement for Conservation Across Northeast India

How One Filmmaker’s Lens Sparked a Movement for Conservation Across Northeast India

Wildlife filmmaker Rita Banerji references the forest like one would an old friend. Her three-decade experience has framed her understanding of the wild, its quirks, its idiosyncrasies, and its habits.  She knows where the light filters softest through the canopy, where the elephants linger after dusk, and can interpret the silence of the forest in ways that few can.  And the films that colour her repository — The Turtle Diaries (2012), The Wild…