Press Quotes

 

"The film is a high-speed adventure, giving insight into the relationships between Tahir, the crew, and their Preuvian guides - I look forward to their next escapade."

BBC SOUTH YORKSHIRE

 

 

"House of the Tiger King proved one of hte event's more unexpected crowdpleasing highlights. It's rollicking post-modern ripping-yarn deconstryctionist documentary, in which film-maker Flamholc and writer-explorer Tahir Shah penetrate the Peruvian rainforest of Madre de Dios in search of the 'lost city' of Paititi..."

NEIL YOUNG, JIGSAW LOUNGE

 

 

"Documentary on a real-life Indiana Jones-style adventurer and his Rambo-style Vietnam Vet guide who are searching for the lost Inca sity of gold accompanied by Swedish filmmaker David Flamholc."

EMPIRE ONLINE UK

 

 

"...despite the prevalence of head shrinkers in the surrounding area. Gung-ho survivalist Richard Fowler has promised to get then in and out alive - swearing he has been flying over the area regularly during his drug-induced dreams."

SHEFFIELD INT. DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

 

 

"Shah, Flamholc, Fowler.../ /...trapped together in one of the most inaccessible and inhospitable regions of the earth - for 14 weeks - the resulting film is a tangle of clashing perspectives and seperate agendas, one which undoes (remakes?) documentary practice as it goes. superbly entertaining, but hardly reliable."

EDINBURGH INT. FILM FESTIVAL

 

 

" 'How far is it now?' David asks at one point. 'It's far. Very far.' Yeah. Now matter how far you walk into that jungle, it's always going to be very very far. But try telling that to Tahir Shah."

THEZREVIEW.CO.UK, ADAM WHYTE