The Leopard’s Citadel -
Sound Recordist

Director - Ashwin Gokhale
Editors - Rachel Rouse & Ashwin Gokhale
Cinematographer - Hoshedar Shroff
Additional Camera - Ashwin Gokhale
Sync Sound - Navya Sah
Pre Production Producer - Trisha Bhattacharya
Producer and On-field Executive - Vani Kaul
Located in Bera & Ahmedabad , India.

The film was made as a part of Ashwin’s MFA Thesis at the
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Georgia, USA.

Set in Western India, the Jawai-Bera region shot to fame because of its incredible number of leopard sightings. The film looks at the lives of - a shepherd from the Rabari tribe and a local hotelier who have been directly affected by the leopard.

This documentary attempts to understand the nuances of economic migration,
the cost of unwanted industrialisation and traditional belief systems that affect the lives of human-kind as well as animal-kind.

Watch the full film here.

More work from the filmmaker here.