31 TIGERS A FILM BY RON ORDERS AND ARPAD BONDY 16 mm - 52 minutes - Color 1987 THE STORY "There is a market in skin - the market could be myself, yourself, anybody who wants a tiger." Surrounded by some of the skins and trophies of the hundreds of animals which he has killed, a big game hunter from the united States describes the joy of the hunt. 31 TIGERS shows the reality. The film features three Indonesians poachers in Sumatra as they prepare their traps. There are not more than 800 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, but as the rainforest is cut back, Their territory becomes more accessible to the hunters. The skin can be readily bought in the souvenir shops of South east Asia. As long as the demand exists, there is someone, somewhere, prepared to supply it. The films takes its name from the number of animal killed in one year by a single hunter. It is a shocking film, and the hunting sequences are profoundly disturbing.