EXCLUSIVE: For the last several years, award-winning filmmaker Richard Ladkani has been at work on a pair of films, among them the current Oscar-contending Yanuni , about a woman Indigenous leader who is fighting to save the Brazilian Amazon at great personal risk. (Watch the new trailer for that film below). The other project, Deadline can reveal exclusively, focuses on Ladkani’s close friend, the late primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall .

For Just Me, Jane (working title), now in postproduction, Goodall and Ladkani traveled together to 27 countries across five continents, “from the depths of the Amazon to the streets of Hong Kong, from Malaysia to Los Angeles, and across Europe and Africa,” according to a release. “The film is an intimate portrait of Jane: a radian

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