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CBS to host Dr. Anne Innis Dagg for screening of documentary film about her life

Submitted by hdort on January 28th, 2019 10:10 AM
film poster, young woman looks up at giraffe in a zooThe College of Biological Science will host a screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary film, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes [1]. The film's subject, Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, will be in attendance for the screening along with the film's director Alison Reid and executive producer Paul Zimic. A Q&A session with the invited guests will follow the film, hosted by Jonathan Newman, Dean of the College of Biological Science.
 
Event details:
Monday, February 11 at 6:00pm
Thornbrough 1200
Free admission
 
Link to film trailer. [2]
 
Film synopsis:
 
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 – 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 behaviour 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.
 
In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, an older (now 85), wiser Anne takes us on her first expedition back to Africa to retrace where her trail-blazing journey began more than half a century ago. By retracing her original steps, and with letters and stunning, original 16mm film footage, Anne 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 nasty battle scars.
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes gives us a moving perspective on both.

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Source URL: https://www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/2019/01/cbs-host-dr-anne-innis-dagg-screening-documentary-film-about-her-life

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[1] https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_UVfr-HfI