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.

The goal of The Eyes of Thailand is to educate and inspire viewers to protect the Asian Elephants through their actions both in the U.S. and in Thailand. While other documentaries and television spots have addressed the plight of elephants worldwide, The Eyes of Thailand goes behind the walls of the Friends of the Asian Elephant and allows the audience to look two elephant landmine survivors, Motala and Mosha, in the eye and witness their first steps walking on prosthetic limbs built by the Prostheses Foundation.

Production began in November 2007. The film is currently in Post-production.