"The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" (Streaming link at Arena Theater website)

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Directed by Alison Reid
Year: 2019
Running Time: 82 minutes
Tickets: $12
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Giraffe documentary on the virtual screen
Arena Theater Cinema will offer a virtual screening of a new documentary by Alison Reid, “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,” the story of biologist Anne Innis Dagg, opening this Friday, April 10. Audiences can connect to the virtual screening room by visiting arenatheater.org and clicking on the Cinema tab.

In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.  Daggs, now 86, retraces her steps, and with letters and stunning, original 16mm film footage offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today. Both the world’s first ‘giraffologist’, whose research findings ultimately became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps, and the species she loves have each experienced triumphs as well as setbacks. The film provides a moving perspective on both.  The New York Times wrote, “This warm documentary uses one woman’s singular passion to fuel a tale of zoological discovery, blatant sexism and environmental alarm…” The movie is not rated at a runtime of 83 minutes.