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RVML Resource Center 2002-2007 Calendar Archives 22 April 2003, Tuesday |
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Video&Discussion: Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
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Video&Discussion: Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope All Tuesday evening events
at RVML are free admission
Video Description:
Harrison Ford Narrates a Uniquely Personal Portrait of One of the World's Most Admired Women: "Thinking back over my life, it seems to me that there are different ways of looking out and trying to understand the world around us. There's a very clear scientific window. And it does enable us to understand an awful lot about what's out there. There's another window through which the wise men, the holy men, the masters of the different religions look as they try to understand the meaning in the world. My own preference is the window of the mystic."
In 1960, when young Jane Goodall ventured into the rugged beauty of Tanzania's Gombe Stream Reserve, the world knew little about the behavior of chimpanzees in the wild. Since then, her pioneering work, which shed new light on human evolutionary development, has been acknowledged as one of the world's great scientific achievements - the subject of numerous books, articles, and television specials. Now, on the eve of Goodall's 40th anniversary at Gombe, a new one-hour television portrait reveals an unexpected spiritual dimension to this universally admired scientist and animal rights activist.
Filmed on location in Tanzania, England, Paris, and San Francisco, JANE GOODALL:REASON FOR HOPE looks beyond Goodall's scientific career at the woman herself ˆ her remarkable life and the deeply held spiritual beliefs that have been at the center of her life and work. Structured as a biography, the film traces Goodall's prescient childhood in England - where her earliest companion was a toy chimpanzee named "Jubilee" - to her decades with the wild chimps at Gombe, to her "conversion" from scientist to environmental activist in the 1980s.
"REASON FOR HOPE brings together the many experiences that have graced and shaped Jane Goodall's outlook on life," said Catherine Allan, executive producer of the film. "What is less known is how her scientific studies have been inspired by her deepest moral and spiritual beliefs."
Goodall's beliefs have led her today, at age 65, to a new career campaigning tirelessly "literally living out of a suitcase" on behalf of reforestation, improved conditions for captive chimps, and Roots & Shoots, her international environmental and humanitarian program for youth. Goodall created Roots & Shoots, a program of the Jane Goodall Institute, to foster respect for all living creatures and to help young people learn how to improve their communities.
"It's an honor to be part of this wonderful film about Jane Goodall," said Harrison Ford, who brings his talent and support for Goodall's work to the documentary as its narrator. "Jane is one of the most remarkable women of our time, whose work on behalf of the environment is inspiring a whole new generation."
Bobby McFerrin's African-inflected music is featured throughout the film, performed by McFerrin and acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. "It conveys the beauty and awe of nature with the same kind of simple, moving elegance that makes Jane Goodall's message so powerful," said producer Emily Goldberg. The companion book to the film, written by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman, will be a major release from Warner Books in September.
Film Details: Produced by KTCI for PBS. 60 Min.
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