Jane

Jane is an intimate portrait of the younger years of 83-year-old Jane Goodall. As a 26-year-old secretary, Jane Goodall was given the opportunity to travel to Africa with palaeontologist Louis Leakey. It was a dream come true. With no experience, knowledge or scientific training, she ventured into the wilderness with her mother in tow to become the first researcher in the world to study primate behaviour in the wild. With disarming naivety, she and Hugo van Lawick (the Dutch wildlife filmmaker and love of her life) braved the dangers of the wilderness to study the chimpanzees in their natural environment.