Dreams of the Last Butterflies

A tease of new images of our Butterfly Queens!  From the upcoming short film, Dreams of the Last Butterflies.

Photos by Maxine Nienow.  Make up Team:  Christine Gieger, Jessah Amarante, Layna Roberts, Jessica Padilla.

Clockwise from top left:

Kai Altair, Dina Satti, Evgeniya Radilova, Melodee, Madeleine Belle, Ali Luminescent, Kayla Jo.

One more image of Kai Altair as the Malabar Tree Nymph Butterfly Queen.

Photo by Nicholas Whitaker. (click to make bigger!)

The Malabar Tree Nymph (Idea malabarica) is a large butterfly found in south-western India in forest clearings and above the forest canopy.  They are unusually hard to spot since they typically prefer the tree-tops.

They are listed as “Near Threatened” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Our first ‘official’ promotional image for the film - Kai Altair as the Malabar Tree Nymph Butterfly Queen! 

Photo by Nicholas Whitaker.  (click to make larger!)