Watch C4B Co-Founders Roddy & John on AOL Build discussing our award-winning feature film Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story.

Change for Balance partners Roddy Tabatabai and John McCarthy produced the award-winning documentary Love and Bananas, which premiered in 2018. Watch them sit down with AOL Build, director Ashley Bell, and TIME Magazine's Hero of Asia, Lek Chailert, to discuss how the film came to be, and the journey to telling this impactful story in a meaningful way. 

Elephant rescues in Thailand are rare, unpredictable and often life-threatening. After waiting 2.5 years, actor/director Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world-renowned Asian elephant conservationist and TIME Magazine's Hero of Asia, Lek Chailert, embark on a daring mission 480 miles across Thailand to rescue Noi Na, a 70-year old partially blind trekking elephant and bring her to freedom. "Love & Bananas" aims to ignite a new way of thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgjVxugFGIc&t=912sing about this species and shows what can be done to prevent the extinction of Asian elephants.