Interview:
Xander Robin,
director,
"The Python Hunt"
Directed by Xander Robin, the SXSW award-winning documentary The Python Hunt follows several Floridians and out-of-towners competing to capture and humanely kill as many as possible of the Everglades’ most destructive invasive species, the Burmese python. Billed as a conservation effort, the state-supported Florida Python Challenge annually attracts 600-1,000 professional and novice hunters, resulting in the removal of around 200 Burmese pythons. While he and his camera crews accompany their colorful documentary subjects for the 10-day hunt, Robin examines the damage caused to the Everglades by the growing Burmese python population, the State of Florida’s near-impossible task of eradicating the one of the world’s largest species of snakes from the Everglades, and the human activity that has also caused harm to the subtropical wetland ecosystem. The Python Hunt , which won the Documentary Feature Competition Special Jury Award at last year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival, opens May 15 at the AFS Cinema. Xander Robin will participate in a Q&A after the 8 p.m. May 16 showing of The Python Hunt at the AFS Cinema. Native South Floridian Xander Robin previously directed the 2016 chiller Are We Not Cats and three episodes of the 2021 HBO reality series Chillin Island.
Aired: May 13, 2026. Web sites: https://pythonhunt.oscilloscope.net/ https://www.austinfilm.org/screening/the-python-hunt/ |
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