Lomba remembered at Roscar awards

DURBAN, South Africa, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- This year's Roscar awards in South Africa for wildlife movies included a memorial award honoring filmmaker Rick Lomba, killed on location by a Bengal tiger.

Nicky Lomba, the filmmaker's 18-year-old daughter, presented a statue of a hippo Wednesday to Evert van den Bos of Nature Conservation Films, based in Holland and Tanzania, for his movie about a woman who saved the street elephants in Thailand, the Durban Daily News reported Thursday. Van den Bos' work also earned a rhino Roscar -- the wildlife equivalent of an Oscar -- for best environmental-conservation campaign film at the Durban Wild Talk Africa conference.

Julika Kennaway of Cape Town won the Roscar for the best newcomer with her movie about a man, Daniel Radziej, who had a special bond with two leopards and a lion on an isolated farm in Namibia. Radziej was killed when the four-wheel-drive vehicle Kennaway was driving crashed after a day of filming.