One of the most striking things I learned from meeting Disneynature’s Chimpanzee’s directors, Alastair Fothergill and Mark Lindfield, is that the movie that almost wasn’t. The story told by following Oscar and his tribe is one that no one could have imagined, in fact, when tragedy initially struck the directors were nearly certain they would …
When I received my invitation to attend Disneynature’s Chimpazee red carpet premier, and finally calmed down enough to read it without jumping up and down, one name caught my eye — Jane Goodall. I was going to meet Jane Goodall. Wow. To a girl who has always had a passion …
Disneynature’s documentary Chimpanzee is a film about chimpanzees, yes. But it is also a movie about love, survival and, most importantly, the wonder of nature. The story of Chimpanzee is not the story the directors set out to tell, nor is it a story that anyone in Hollywood could have …