--- description: An elephant disappears every 15 minutes title: Watch Kathryn Bigelow's Short Film About Elephant Poaching image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90441340a3365e9f/69876c8a5f570ffc04b13f4b/last-days.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Premiere: Watch Kathryn Bigelow's Short Film About Elephant Poaching, _Last Days_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 12:00 PM CUT  Annapurna Pictures  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 12:00 PM CUT Director Kathryn Bigelow has won countless awards for her films about the War on Terror — but in her new short film _Last Days_, premiering today on TIME.com, she’s tackling the war on elephants. “Last year I was made aware of the very real connection between elephant poaching and terrorism,” Bigelow tells TIME. “For me it represented the diabolical intersection of two problems that are of great concern — species extinction and global terrorism. Both involve the loss of innocent life, and both require urgent action.” Because making a feature film would have taken years during which more elephants would be hunted, Bigelow chose to work with filmmakers on the short film _Last Days_ in hopes of inspiring more urgent action. “An elephant disappears every 15 minutes,” she says. “It is our hope that this film helps bring an activist into existence at least that often.” To learn more, visit [lastdaysofivory.com](http://www.lastdaysofivory.com/ "undefined") and [twitter.com/lastdaysofivory](https://twitter.com/lastdaysofivory "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3617282/kathryn-bigelow-last-days/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3617282/kathryn-bigelow-last-days/"},"headline":"Premiere: Watch Kathryn Bigelow's Short Film About Elephant Poaching, Last Days","datePublished":"2014-12-04T12:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:33:30.142Z","description":"An elephant disappears every 15 minutes","url":"https://time.com/3617282/kathryn-bigelow-last-days/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90441340a3365e9f/69876c8a5f570ffc04b13f4b/last-days.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90441340a3365e9f/69876c8a5f570ffc04b13f4b/last-days.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"last-days","caption":"","creditText":"Annapurna Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3617282/kathryn-bigelow-last-days/","name":"Premiere: Watch Kathryn Bigelow's Short Film About Elephant Poaching, Last Days"}}]}] ```