At this special fundraising screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, Anne Dagg will be in attendance.
Presented as a Fundraising Benefit for both The Anne Innis Dagg (AID) Foundation [1] which supports the habitat and the people that live amongst the most magnificent creature on the planet, the giraffe and The batemanfoundation.org [2], Robert Bateman's nature foundation that is dedicated to educating the public on the importance of human-nature connection.
All seats are $20 with all funds going directly to the 2 Foundations.
Recent awards of Anne Dagg:
Order of Canada
Women of Influence Award - KW Zonta Club
TrailBlazer Award NY Wild Film festival
Honourary Doctorate in Science, U of Waterloo
Hall of Fame Inductee - Waterloo Region Museum
Medal of Honour, Royal Canadian Geograpahic Society
and the list goes on....
In "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes", an older (85 in the film), 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.
Read the Hamilton Spectator article [3]