Mia and the White Lion

2018
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Mia and the White Lion
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Title: Mia and the White Lion

Original Title: L'enfant et le lion blanc

Year: 2018

Info

Release Dates

  • United States: April 12 2019

Plot

Mia's life changes completely when her family decides to leave London and move to Africa to take care a lion farm. At the beginning, she is really angry about it, until she meets Charlie, a white lion with whom she creates a unbreakable bond. When the lion turns three years old, Mia finds out about a really dark secret that her father is hiding; so she decides to run away with Charlie to avoid that he suffers any harm. Both set out in an aventure in the African Savannah, looking for a place where Charlie can live in freedom.

The movie is directed by Gilles de Maistre. It was filmed in three years. The cast is formed by Mélanie Laurent ('Inglorious Bastards'), Langley Kirkwood ('Banshee') and Daniah de Villiers, who will be incarnating the main character.

Cast

Director:

Gilles de Maistre Gilles de Maistre

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Trivia

Teenage lion

Filming was normal until the lion was a year and a half old. There, the team has folded in cages because lions go through 2 years a period that can be likened to adolescence.

Real story

The idea of 'Mia and the White Lion' came to Gilles de Maistre while he was making a television documentary on the unique friendship between children and wild animals around the world. In South Africa, he meets a boy whose parents had a lion farm. Under the guise of preserving them, they actually resold them for hunting in pens.

300 children

'Mia and the White Lion' recount the friendship between a child and a wild animal, a relationship that was provoked by the production that cast more than 300 children in South Africa before finding Daniah De Villiers who embodies Mia. Daniah De Villiers spent three days with Thor, the lion, for three years, while the filming took place in four blocks during this period. After all this time in the bush, the girl had to leave the lion and resume a normal life, which was a real tear. She returns however to see Thor regularly. For Kevin Richardson, the most complicated thing was finding parents crazy enough to let their child participate in such an adventure.

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