🗓️ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | 7:30 PM
📍BROWNING CENTER AT WSU
National Geographic Live brings BAFTA-winning filmmaker Sandesh Kadur to Ogden for a night of stunning wildlife photography, rare footage, and stories straight from the field. This fall, step inside Peery’s Egyptian Theater and travel to the jungles, mountains, and plains of India to meet wild cats most people have never seen.
India is home to 15 species of wild cats, more than any other country on earth. Kadur has spent years tracking them across some of the planet’s most rugged terrain. In this live presentation, he shares the images and stories behind those encounters: the tiny, grumpy-faced Pallas’s cat perched on a Himalayan ridge, the fishing cat diving headfirst into water to snag its dinner, the clouded leopard slipping through the canopy like smoke. These are not the cats you see on nature calendars. They are elusive, bizarre, and beautiful, and Kadur’s camera brings you closer than you would ever get on your own.
Kadur’s path started with a borrowed camera and a midnight encounter with a leopard as a teenager in Bangalore. Since then, he has contributed cinematography to BBC’s Planet Earth II, earned a BAFTA Award, received an Emmy nomination, and produced documentaries for National Geographic, Netflix, and Discovery Channel. He founded Felis Creations, a production house dedicated to conservation filmmaking, and now sits on the National Geographic Society’s board of trustees. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic Magazine, and his three books include The Cat in the Ghat, a deep dive into India’s jungle felines.
This is the kind of evening that stays with you. Jaw-dropping images projected on a massive screen inside one of Ogden’s most stunning historic rooms, behind-the-scenes stories you will not hear anywhere else, and a filmmaker who makes you care about animals you did not know existed.
Sandesh Kadur will also offer a Student Matinee performance the morning of November 6. Find more details here.
