BBC America boarded a chimpanzee documentary narrated by Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh and is bringing back documentary series Meerkat Manor.
The cable network will air She Walks With Apes on Wednesday April 22, marking the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The film, which was originally commissioned by Canada’s CBC, follows three women who went into the jungles of Africa and Borneo to live with great apes. It features Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, who was the subject of Brett Morgen’s Nat Geo doc Jane.
The film is a fresh take on Goodall’s early years living with the chimpanzees, and also reveals rarely seen images of Dian Fossey, the legendary scientist who was murdered while working with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. The two-hour documentary also gives credit to the third pioneering woman, Canadian Biruté Galdikas, who went to live among the orangutans of...
The cable network will air She Walks With Apes on Wednesday April 22, marking the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The film, which was originally commissioned by Canada’s CBC, follows three women who went into the jungles of Africa and Borneo to live with great apes. It features Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, who was the subject of Brett Morgen’s Nat Geo doc Jane.
The film is a fresh take on Goodall’s early years living with the chimpanzees, and also reveals rarely seen images of Dian Fossey, the legendary scientist who was murdered while working with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. The two-hour documentary also gives credit to the third pioneering woman, Canadian Biruté Galdikas, who went to live among the orangutans of...
- 1/16/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sandra Oh is to narrate a feature-length documentary about three women who went into the jungles of Africa and Borneo to live with great apes.
She Walks With Apes, for Canada’s CBC, features Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, who was the subject of Brett Morgen’s Nat Geo doc Jane.
The film is a fresh take on Goodall’s early years living with the chimpanzees, and also reveals rarely seen images of Dian Fossey, the legendary scientist who was murdered while working with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. The two-hour documentary also gives credit to the third pioneering woman, Canadian Biruté Galdikas, who went to live among the orangutans of Borneo 50 years ago and is still there today. They became known as the “Trimates”.
The film, which launches on September 20, was filmed over the course of a year by the father-daughter filmmaking team of Caitlin and Mark Starowicz,...
She Walks With Apes, for Canada’s CBC, features Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, who was the subject of Brett Morgen’s Nat Geo doc Jane.
The film is a fresh take on Goodall’s early years living with the chimpanzees, and also reveals rarely seen images of Dian Fossey, the legendary scientist who was murdered while working with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. The two-hour documentary also gives credit to the third pioneering woman, Canadian Biruté Galdikas, who went to live among the orangutans of Borneo 50 years ago and is still there today. They became known as the “Trimates”.
The film, which launches on September 20, was filmed over the course of a year by the father-daughter filmmaking team of Caitlin and Mark Starowicz,...
- 8/26/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Killing Eve star Sandra Oh is set to narrate She Walks With Apes, a Canadian documentary about Jane Goodall and three female scientists inspired by the famous British primatologist's trailblazing field work in remote Africa.
The CBC film, directed by Mark Starowicz and Caitlin Starowicz, also includes rare footage of Dian Fossey, the U.S. scientist who was murdered in 1985 while working with mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Fossey's life was famously turned into the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist, starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey.
Goodall has been the subject of many film and documentaries, among the world'...
The CBC film, directed by Mark Starowicz and Caitlin Starowicz, also includes rare footage of Dian Fossey, the U.S. scientist who was murdered in 1985 while working with mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Fossey's life was famously turned into the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist, starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey.
Goodall has been the subject of many film and documentaries, among the world'...
- 8/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
TORONTO -- Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Mark Starowicz on Wednesday was promoted to executive director of documentary programming at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Starowicz will move from executive producer of CBC Television's documentary unit to a seat at the public broadcaster's senior management table, overseeing development, commissioning, production and co-production of documentaries. Richard Stursberg, executive vp of CBC Television, said Starowicz appointment signaled an expansion of the public broadcaster's presence in documentaries and factual programming, given "exponential growth" in audience interest.
- 4/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- For its seventh annual edition, MIPDOC, Europe's leading nonfiction trade fair, has moved house, shifting from the Carlton Hotel to the Noga Hilton where the now-defunct Casino Barriere underneath the Noga housed MIPDOC's screening rooms during the two-day market, which concluded Sunday. The old casino lounge made an appropriate setting for a business that has taken on a high-risk approach. As nonfiction programming moves upscale with such big-budget historical re-creations as the BBC's Pompeii: The Last Days and D-Day, such cinematic-quality efforts as the Discovery Channel's James Cameron's Expedition: Bismark and CS Associates' seven-part music documentary series The Blues, and reality formats from Pop Idol to Celebrity Boxing, networks and specialty channels are abandoning low-cost, bulk documentary programming in favor of expensive and riskier one-of-a-kind nonfiction "events." "Broadcasters are investing more and more of their own money (in big-budget nonfiction programming)," said Mark Starowicz, an executive producer at CBC Television's documentary unit. "The budgets and the stakes are going way up. You've got to stand out. Cookie-cutter stuff doesn't work. A few years ago, with the explosion of niche channels, you got a lot of bulk business, people producing 100 hours on the pyramids or S&M clubs or whatever. But nobody's buying that anymore."...
- 3/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Wednesday selected a jury to judge 77 films during the April 23-May 2 event in Toronto. Set for jury duty were documentary filmmakers Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com), Frederick Wiseman (Titticut Follies), Jennifer Baichwal (The True Meaning of Pictures), Tracey Deer (One More River), John Kastner (Rage Against Darkness), Ali Kazimi (Passage to India), Peter Wintonick (Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and the Media) and Peter Lynch (Cyberman). Also named were Sundance Channel vp acquisitions Christian Vesper; Wolter Braamhorst, a commissioning editor for Dutch broadcaster AVRO, film producer Robin Cass, Toronto One executive director Karen King, Globe and Mail newspaper foreign editor John Stackhouse, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. head of documentary production Mark Starowicz and Sheffield International Documentary Festival director Brent Woods. The blue ribbon jury will choose prize winners in the categories of best Canadian short, best Canadian feature, best international short, best international feature and best film from the National Spotlight on the Netherlands.
- 3/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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