Jane

Brett Morgen
Part of

55th New York Film Festival

September 29 - October 15, 2017

Filmmaker Brett Morgan has created a vibrant film experience utilizing recently rediscovered footage from the years in which Jane Goodall first established contact with the chimpanzee population in Gombe Stream National Park near Lake Tangyanika.

DIRECTOR
Brett Morgen
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
90 minutes

Q&A with Brett Morgen and Jane Goodall following the screening on 10/5. Q&A with Morgen following the screening on 10/6.

In 1960, Dr. Louis Leakey arranged for a young English woman with a deep love of animals to go to Gombe Stream National Park near Lake Tangyanika. The Dutch photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick was sent to document Jane Goodall’s first establishment of contact with the chimpanzee population, resulting in the enormously popular Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, the second film ever produced by National Geographic. One hundred hours of Lawick’s original footage was rediscovered in 2014. From that material, Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) has created a vibrant film experience, giving new life to the experiences of this remarkable woman and the wild in which she found a home. A National Geographic Documentary Films release.

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