Female Film Critics 24/375
Writer-director MJ Bassett’s latest action workout returns the filmmaker to Africa. In Endangered Species, an apparently affluent — but decidedly dysfunctional — American family visits East Kenya for a safari vacation, only to discover that they have more in common with the title animals than they imagine.
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Director Sam Soko’s documentary Softie is described as a tug of war between loyalty to family or country. It presents that and so much more when Boniface Mwangi, nicknamed Softie as a physically small child, decides to run for Kenya’s Parliament. He’ll confront sadistic violence and extensive corruption by those in power amidst death threats to him and his family.
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Award-winning wildlife filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble’s latest nature documentary, The Elephant Queen, is Apple’s first theatrical release. The married filmmakers have spent more than 30 years living and working in East Africa, and The Elephant Queen is the culmination of a 10-year-dream and four-year labor of love. Stone calls the film an homage to female power and wisdom. It is the story of Athena, a 50-year-old elephant matriarch, and her herd of females and juveniles.
Read moreBorn To Be Wild invites you on a thrilling IMAX 3D cinematic safari to wild animal ‘orphanages’ in Kenya and Borneo to visit with baby elephants and orangutans whose parents have died — most often at the hands of poachers — and learn about the handlers who nuture them until they’re mature enough to return to the wild.
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