The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

What a pleasure to spend time with Dr. Dagg, a woman who shows us how important - and how transformative - the combination of curiosity, rigorous, fearless intellectual integrity, cheerfulness, and generosity of spirit can be.

Passionate, funny and modest, Dagg is the sort of "character" documentarians dream of finding.

"The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" lives up to its title, and something more.

"The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" is almost as much about the prejudice Dagg had to deal with as a female scientist as it is about the wondrous title creatures.

It's worth being reminded that misogyny is as pernicious a force as the unchecked development that threatens the habitat of a majestic animal.

Dagg is the focus of Alison Reid's The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, and it confirms a long-held tenet of mine: If the subject of a documentary is fascinating, it doesn't much matter if the filmmaking is workmanlike.

This warm documentary not only spotlights the lively Dr. Dagg and her giraffe research but also her inspiring fight against sexism to study the animal she had always loved.

Have you heard of Anne Innis Dagg? The answer is probably not, and people around the world should know her.

Dagg is a true trailblazer, and it's wonderful to see her celebrated.

In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, filmmaker Alison Reid presents a superb documentary profile,.