Lara Ariffin

Documentary Producer and Tiger Activist. RIMAU

Lara has been producing documentaries for more than 25 years and has worked on a vast range of projects from wildlife to history, megastructures and archaeology. She has produced for international broadcasters including the National Geographic Channel, History Channel and Channel NewsAsia. Several of her films have won awards locally and internationally. These include “Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh”, “Sumatra‘s Last Tigers”, “On Borrowed Time”, “Rising Sun Over Malaya” and “The Highland Towers Disaster”.But her passion has always been in conservation. Throughout her career, she has worked with various NGOs to make short documentaries that have changed attitudes towards the way we treat our planet and its animals. She has been heavily involved in tiger conservation over the last 10 years and is now the President of RIMAU, an NGO dedicated to saving tigers.