Title: Jane
Original Title: Jane
Year: 2017
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 90 Minutes (1 hour 30 min)
- Budget: €58,348
- Genre: Documentary Biography
Release Dates
- UK: November 24 2017
Plot
Jane Goodall is a biologist specialized on primates who became famous due to her research on chimpanzees. With more than 100 hours of unseen footage, National Geographic presents this documentary to tell Jane's story, who defied a world dominated by men with her scientific work and revolutionized the evolution theories. The film is focused on Jane's first exploration, her field work and her relationship with Hugo van Lawick, her cameraman and husband. Besides, it also explores her intimate connection with the chimpanzees she studied. The film is directed by Brett Morgen, responsible for 'Cobain: Montage of Heck' and 'The Kid Stays in the Picture', and composer Philip Glass ('The Truman Show', 'The Hours') sets the film's music.
Awards
- 2018 BAFTA Awards: 1 0
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Trivia
Hugo van Lawick
All the source material was filmed by Hugo van Lawick, a photographer sent by National Geographic to document the chimpanzees and the same Jane. Eventually, Hugo and Jane would get married.
Orson Welles
Many documentaries about Jane Goodall have been made. The first one, 'Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees', was narrated by Orson Welles. Goodall asked for a lawyer, because it was very inaccurate, and Welles was forced to rerecord it.
Unseen footage
The film is created with more than 100 hours of never-seen-before material, that had been at the National Geographic archives for decades until it came to light in 2014.
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