(Anna Breytenbach)
Award-winning
wildlife production company NHU (Natural History Unit) takes wildlife
storytelling to a spiritual level.
The Animal Communicator is the first full-length
documentary film on the art of animal communication; provoking honest
consideration from both supporters and sceptics alike. Stepping out of the
conventional wildlife film model, NHU (Natural History Unit) Africa’s
latest documentary indicates that audiences have an appetite for
intuition-orientated stories (as opposed to traditional information-based
films), with the film receiving over 170,000 views in the three month period it
was available for online viewing.
The
film, commissioned by NHU Africa and produced by The Foster Brothers, features
South African-born Anna Breytenbach, who has dedicated her life to
‘interspecies communication’; working with people who want to explore the
natural connection between humans and animals.
According
to Breytenbach, interspecies communication entails sending messages to animals
through pictures and thoughts and she is able to receive messages of remarkable
clarity back from the animals - messages that she can decode to establish what
they are saying to her about their thoughts and emotions. Swati Thiyagarajan, India's
top environmental journalist, presents the film, setting out to investigate
Anna's claims. Initially the journalist is sceptical, but time after time Breytenbach
diagnoses an animal’s problem and communicates information that is corroborated
by the animal’s caregivers and the scientists who study them.
Director
of the documentary Craig Foster is no stranger to films that challenge the
status quo and along with his brother Damon has made cult classics such as The Great Dance: A Hunters Story and
commercial successes Into the Dragon’s
Lair and Touching The Dragon –
which recently was broadcast as part of National Geographic’s 125th
anniversary. The Foster Brothers have a long standing working relationship with
NHU Africa, an award-winning commissioning body and production house that
backed the unconventional, if not downright risky endeavour of making a film
about the obscure and unproven art of animal communication.
Visit
the NHU Africa website to view the preview of Animal Communicator:
For
information on courses in animal communication, contact Anna Breytenbach directly
at http://www.animalspirit.org/
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