Join The Explorers Club on March 2nd for a screening of a new film written, directed, and produced by EC Fellow Kim Frank, delving into the gripping conflict between humans and wild Asian elephants along the Eastern Himalaya in India.
In the foothills of the eastern Himalaya, endangered wild Asian elephants and humans are locked in a deadly conflict. In India over 500 people and 100 elephants die each year. Writer and Explorer, Kim Frank, travels to North Bengal, a critical corridor bordering Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh to uncover the roots of this escalating crisis. As forests vanish and ancient migration routes are severed, Where the Forest Roars bears witness to those fighting to restore balance between survival and peaceful coexistence.
This in-person screening at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Kim Frank
Kim Frank is a writer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on human relationships with wildlife and place. A Fellow of The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society, she is the writer, director, and producer of the documentary, Where the Forest Roars, which illuminates the human-elephant conflict in the transboundary areas of north Bengal India. Kim is the author of Elephants in the Hourglass: A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya, (Pegasus Books, New York 2025). Other book projects include Born to Ice with photographer Paul Nicklen and Amaze with Cristina Mittermeier. Most recently, she has traced the ancient Asian elephant migration routes from Arunachal Pradesh through Assam to the Indo-Nepal border to explore the intersections of oral history, myth, and spiritual traditions as they connect to elephants and people who have coexisted in this region for centuries. Kim has an MFA from Warren Wilson Program for Writers and MSW from the University of Pennsylvania.
