Filming the flamingos of Tanzania's salt flats - Telegraph

Filming the flamingos of Tanzania's salt flats - Telegraph


From the air, the surface of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania looks like a different planet. Vast craters and dramatic red swirls in the cracked, dried-out soda make the lake appear inhospitable and an unlikely location for a wildlife film. But Natron is an important breeding ground for more than a million flamingos, the stars of The Crimson Wing. This is less a nature documentary than a series of beautiful images set to music and accompanied by a slightly indulgent narrative, which ostensibly follows the life cycle of these flamingos.