Narrated by Mel Gibson, The Last Trimate is a compelling account of the work of Birute Mary Galdikas -- who, alongside Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, is one of the three formidable women to have dedicated their lives to the great apes of the world -- she highlights the plight of the elusive 'red ape' and offers some hope for their survival as their very habitat is decimated at a startling rate.
Direction
Intimate access to decades of Galdikas' fieldwork archives.
Practical Effects
Stunning 16mm footage of vanishing Borneo wilderness.
Director
Pria Viswalingam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Louis Leakey deliberately selected women for this work, believing they'd be more patient observers—he called them 'The Trimates.'
Released the same year as 'Food, Inc.' and 'An Inconvenient Truth,' this rode the late-2000s eco-doc wave but never broke through.
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