Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air
Director: Phillip Warnell
Produced by Madeleine Molyneaux and Phillip Warnell
Associate Producer: Jacqui Davies
A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of human-beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the 'only in New York' story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies.
Winner of the Georges de Beauregard Prize, Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille)
Winner of the Universities Culturgest Award, IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
Nominee, Best Feature Film (Avant-Garde and Genre), Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Nominee, Grand Prize City of Lisbon, IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
Nominee, Best Documentary Debut or Second Film and Best World Documentary, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Nominee Grand Prix, T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland
Feature Film 2014: DCP, 71 minutes