The Woman Who Loves Giraffes(2019)

Name: The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
Director: Alison Reid
Genre: Documentary
Released: Oct 4, 2019
Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Victor Garber, Anne Innis Dagg

Zeitgeist Films

2h 3m
- Documentary

Release Date: Oct 4, 2019

A profile of giraffe researcher Anne Dagg who, in 1956, became one of the first people to ever observe and report on animal behaviour.

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Release Details

Original Release | Oct 4, 2019 | Limited

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Box Office Results

2025-04-29T04:13:42.400Z

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$1,810
Total US & Canada:
$113,858
Total Worldwide:
$113,858

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Director & Top Cast

Alison Reid
Director

Tatiana Maslany
Young Anne

Victor Garber
Alex Matthew

Anne Innis Dagg
Self

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 16 : 9

Other Details

Country of Origin: Canada

Language: English

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In1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, in fact, before anyone, man or woman had made such a trip, 23-year old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become the first person in the world to study animal behavior in the wild on that continent. When she returned home a year later armed with ground-breaking research, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved much harder to overcome. In 1972, having published 20 research papers as an assistant professor of zoology at University of Guelph, the Dean of the university, denied her tenure. She couldn't apply to the University of Waterloo because the Dean there told Anne that he would never give tenure to a married woman. This was the catalyst that transformed Anne into a feminist activist. For three decades, Anne Innis Dagg was absent from the giraffe world until 2010 when she was sought out by giraffologists and not just brought back to into the fold, but finally celebrated for her work. Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her groundbreaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild - and discovers a startling contrast between the world of giraffes she once knew and the one it has become. Weaving through the past and present, her harrowing journey gives us an intimate look into the factors that destroyed her career and the forces that brought her back.