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Jane´s Journey – a documentary by Lorenz Knauer
More than twenty years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she has travelled around the globe more than 300 days per year, spreading hope by giving lectures, writing books and through her youth organization ‘Roots & Shoots’, active in more than 100 countries worldwide. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, has been honoured with countless awards, was appointed ‘Dame of the British Empire’ and admitted to the ‘Légion d’Honneur’, the highest decoration of France.
We accompany her on her journey across several continents and, parallel to that, we learn more about her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we travel with her to Gombe Stream National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. Here is where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and where she returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous.
The visual scope of ‘Jane’s Journey’ spans a fascinating arc from the beaches of Bournemouth to the flatlands of Nebraska, from the rainforests of Gombe to the melting glaciers of Greenland,
offering spectacular footage of Jane’s touching encounters with animals both wild and domestic as well as with humans, from Hollywood celebrities to traumatized children in African refugee camps.
To be delivered in 2010, the year of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Goodall’s ongoing chimpanzee research project in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
