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Reel Heritage: Jessica Berman-Bogdan on Jane

March 19, 2018

Wednesday March 28, 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm EST
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West (Toronto)

Following a screening of Jane, which uses never-before-seen footage to chronicle the pioneering work of Jane Goodall in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, archival producer Jessica Berman-Bogdan will join Michelle Lovegrove Thomson, ‎Senior Manager of the TIFF Film Reference Library, to discuss the creative collaboration between director Brett Morgen and National Geographic to poetically tell the story of one of the world’s most groundbreaking researchers. This event is part of Reel Heritage, a TIFF initiative devoted to exploring and promoting the importance of film preservation and archives more generally as repositories of public memory and heritage. Reel Heritage is supported by the Government of Canada and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

About the film: In the 1960s, National Geographic sent a cameraman to film Jane Goodall’s pioneering work with chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. Photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick trained his camera on her as much as on the chimpanzees. He shot over 140 hours of 16mm footage that was stored in an archive for decades — until now. Filmmaker Brett Morgen makes the most of this extraordinary visual record of Goodall’s early career. This isn’t a traditional nature film or biography. It’s a romantic epic, combining van Lawick’s cinematography, Goodall’s eloquent storytelling, and a magnificent new score by Philip Glass.

How to attend: This event is open to the public. Tickets to this event are free and will be available from the Box Office 2-hours before the event starts. Individual students wishing to reserve a ticket in advance (limit one per person) may do so using this sign-up form. Administrators or faculty looking to reserve a block of tickets to this event can email hlf@tiff.net with their request. This event is also open to the public.

If you cannot attend in person, the post-screening conversation will be live streamed on TIFF’s YouTube channel.

(Via Toronto International Film Festival)

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