Arkelope

While searching for diversion on television one evening, a middle-aged couple lights upon a nature documentary recounting the decline of the Arkelope. Though it has managed to survive a variety of natural disasters and calamities, the Arkelope has been reduced, through human indifference and short-sightedness, to a species whose very existence is in imminent danger. A seriously funny look at endangered species and human passivity in the face of the ubiquitous TV set.

Arkelope, Middle-Aged Couple

Camerio Award, Best Short Film of the Festival, Carrousel international du film, Rimouski, Quebec, 1994.
Special Prize, International TV-Films Festival, Minsk, Belarus Republic, 1996.
Gold Apple Award, National Educational Media Network Competition, Oakland, California, 1996.
Merit Award for Innovation, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, 1996.
Merit Award for Visual Impart, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, 1996