Big-game animals, crocodiles, hippos, elephants, lions and one of the largest bird concentrations on the planet all come to life in stunning 3D in African Adventure: Safari in the Okavango, now showing at Hastings Museum.
“The Okavango Delta is one of the most unique wilderness areas in Africa,” said Becky Matticks, director of the Hastings Museum. “Little-known to the outside world until just a few decades ago, the nearly 8,000 square mile maze of lagoons, channels and islands forms one of the most beautiful and pristine wildlife reserves on Earth.”
African Adventure is not simply a documentary about the region. “It’s a unique photo safari in the flooded desert,” Matticks said. “The immersive 3D photography puts viewers in the boat, offering an experience like no other.”
Check out the movie trailer above!
Led by South African zoologist Liesl Eichenberger, viewers join world-renowned wildlife filmmaker Tim Liversedge, for a thrilling adventure in the flooded desert.
At the young age of 20, Liversedge was hired by the Smithsonian to participate in a survey of delta. He fell in love with the Okavango and has lived there ever since. In the late sixties, he became one of the first game wardens of the Okavango. Twenty years ago, his conviction that the long-term protection of wildlife habitats would require the support of the international community prompted him to interrupt his career as a game warden to become a wildlife filmmaker and to share his knowledge of the place with worldwide audiences.
For more than 10 years Eichenberger, host of nWave’s Wild Safari 3D, has been involved with conservation programs in South Africa.
Having always wanted to explore the Okavango, she could not pass up the invitation to spend several weeks at Liversedge film camp in the heart of the delta, and to discover the region through the eyes of an expert.
African Adventure is sponsored locally by 94.5 The Breeze and KHAS-TV.
African Adventure 3D: Safari in the Okavango shows through June 5, 2012, at Hastings Museum.
