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brown lionA film by the Joubert’s about their incredible journey with big cats as a deeper look into how they started and why big cats have captured the hearts of these two National Geographic filmmakers and explorers. The journey has been one of nearly forty years and includes many discoveries for science that the world at large has not ever seen.
It has taken them out into some of the most remote places in Africa and later inspired them to establish the Big Cats Initiative to help save these cats. The film covers their relationship with lions and leopards through many intimate years, giving audiences insight into the personal lives of these two explorers. What it takes to live in a tent for decades, to drive through the swamps of Africa and to live in the deserts. The dedication doesn’t end at filming big cats but extends to protecting them as well.
Living with Big Cats shows some of their highlights from over four decades. Also, it focuses on the quest to stay in touch with Legadema, the key character of Eye of the Leopard, as they develop a special bond, to the degree where the leopard starts to use their filming vehicle to sleep in, an activity Dereck quickly remedies so as not to ‘tame’ a wild cat. Once the filming of Eye of the Leopard finishes, Dereck and Beverly must go away to edit the documentary for National Geographic and write a book. On their return, they pick up in the last act, a quest to reconnect with this special cat, but so much has changed in a few months. It takes them two months to understand her fate, and finally, when she sees it is them and comes out to greet these two human companions, we know that something quite special has just happened.

Narrated by Jeremy Irons