USA TODAY — Actress Ashley Bell's documentary, “Love and Bananas: An Elephant Story,” follows her mission across Thailand to free an Asian elephant.

LOS ANGELES TIMES — Directed by actress Ashley Bell, the documentary "Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story" is the type of film that's impossible to come away from unchanged.

BUILD SERIES — 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.

THE NEW YORK TIMES — The movie runs down some dispiriting statistics (there are less than 50,000 Asian elephants alive today), and is unsparing in showing the cruelty required to train an elephant to perform tricks and give rides to humans.

CNN — It's important to know that silence about the crisis of the Asian elephant has contributed to its becoming an endangered species.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — Anyone who loves elephants (and if you don't, I want nothing to do with you…seriously) is bound to adore Ashley Bell's deeply affecting documentary about efforts to save the Asian elephant.

FORBES — “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story,” the new documentary from actress Ashley Bell, has the potential to be life-changing –  for viewers and, in turn, for the endangered Asian elephants who are the subjects of this powerful movie.

BUILD SERIES — 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.

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD — The film follows Bell and a team of elephant rescuers — led by world-renowned Asian elephant conservationist and Time magazine’s Hero of Asia, Sangdeaun Lek Chailert — as they mission 480 miles across Thailand to rescue a 70-year-old partially blind trekking elephant.