BBC Wildlife Magazine

A quick chat with Richie Mehta, writer and director of Poacher

Poacher is based on a real-life story. How did you find out about it?

I was directing a documentary titled India In A Day. People all over India shot footage of their own lives on their phones on one particular day (10th October 2015), uploaded it, and then I assembled it into a featurelength documentary.

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