Windy Borman
Soraida Salwala opened the World’s First Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand in 1993 to treat elephants that are ill or injured as a result of work, abuse or neglect. To date, she and her staff have treated over 3,000 elephants for everything from eye infections to knife wounds, gunshot wounds, broken bones, drug addictions and building prosthetic limbs for the survivors of landmine accidents. The Eyes of Thailand is a color, feature-length, HD documentary film that exposes the problems facing the Thai Asian Elephants at the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) Elephant Hospital through Soraida’s quest to save them.