Trade Secret
Trade Secret follows three unlikely allies on a mission to protect polar bears from international commercial trade. Filmed over six years across nine countries, the film exposes the sanctioned sale of hundreds of polar bears each year on the global market. But as the investigation deepens, it uncovers a disturbing truth: those entrusted with safeguarding the species may be entangled in their continued commercialisation. The film raises urgent questions about how we protect vulnerable species in a world where the lines between protection and exploitation have become blurred.
Director
Abraham Joffe
Producer
Adam Mckay
Runtime
100 minutes
Rights Represented
Educational
Captions Available
English
Language
English
Press
“It is a superbly crafted work – powerful, urgent, and deeply moving. It sheds light on a matter of global importance, and it does so with both journalistic integrity and cinematic finesse.”
- Wolfgang Knöpfler, Producer of ‘The Ivory Game’ and ‘Sea of Shadows’ .
“A breathtaking masterpiece and unflinching exposé – confronting humanity’s betrayal of the wild and the devastating cost of losing a species forever ”
- Kartiki Gonsalves Academy Award winning director of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’
“Trade Secret, complete with a mid-film twist that Hollywood script writers would die for, forces
a reckoning: if we don’t confront the corruption behind legalised wildlife trade today, what will
be left to protect tomorrow?”
- Now Then Magazine
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