Carlos Carvalho, 47
A 47 -year -old award -winning film director was tragically killed by a header of a giraffe While filming in a South -African Lodge Safari.
While gerafa’s foregrounding features capture the giraffe, the animal unexpectedly turned the neck, sending Carlos Carvalho flying through the air and crashed to the ground.
The director tragicly succumbed to their wounds later that night after being transported to a Johannesburg HospitalAccording to Callacrew, a shooting agency. Carlos had been shooting scenes on the Glen African farm in Broederstroom, a location known for his appearances on the British television series Wild at Heart.
Richard Brooker, whose family is the Lodge, stated that Gerald, the bull giraffe, would not be euthanous as it was not considered dangerous.
“When Carlos was in front of the giraffe, the animal extended his legs, doubled his neck and turned his head to Carlos,” said Brooker. “Gerald will remain in the Lodge. He did not do anything bad,” Brooker said The telegraph.
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A African Glen representative suggested that Carlos had moved away from the group and ignored security instructions so as not to bring animals closer.
Drikus van der Merwe, a member of the film’s crew next to Carlos during the incident on May 2, 2018, said: “The giraffe began chasing the boom swinger that joined our unit.”
He told her The Sun: “We were not threatened because it seemed to be curious.” However, things changed quickly at a glance, giving rise to the filmmaker’s disappearance a few hours later.
“We started firing first on the body and to the feet. Then, as Carlos looked through the camera’s eye, Gerald turned his neck and hit him against his head.” He did not leave the place and Carlos did not even see it. He was not aware of the danger.
Even after a sequence of such dramatic and violent events, Drikus hoped that his colleague would recover fully and never expect the tragic turn of events that took place. He said, “I knew he had a serious trauma. But I never thought he would die.”
Carlos won a Cannes Lion prize for an announcement of the South South Line Public Service -African in 2003, and was the director of Photography for the Forgotten Kingdom, the first feature film produced in Lesoto.
The tributes were paid on Facebook to the father of two of Johannesburg as a “wonderful human being”. Chris Roland said, “deeply sad to know about the passage of Carlos Carvalho, a very nice guy and talented PDO [director of photography] I had the honor of working twice. A great loss for the industry. Goodbye Carlos! “.
Pistal Master Thabiso Mohapi said, “Rip my brother! Meeting and greeting -you that morning at breakfast shooting the first scenes of the morning did not know that it was our last time together.”