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Virunga is a 2014 British documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel.It focuses on the conservation work of park rangers within the Congo's Virunga National Park during the rise of the violent M23 Rebellion in 2012 and investigates the activity of the British oil company Soco International within the UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1]
Farley McGill Mowat, OC (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist.His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books.
Director of Virunga National Park Prince Emmanuel de Merode (Emmanuel Werner Marie Ghislain de Merode; born 5 May 1970) is a conservationist and anthropologist. He has been the director of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2008.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio are reteaming for a feature adaptation to the documentary Virunga, which will be written by Oscar-winning Moonlight helmer Barry Jenkins. The Oscar ...
Despite this, the film had a successful box office performance, grossing $152 million worldwide. In 1984, Telarium released a graphic adventure video game based on Congo . Because Crichton had sold all adaptation rights to the novel, he set the game—named Amazon —in South America, and Amy the gorilla became Paco the parrot.
Joanna Natasegara (born October 1980) is an English film director and producer. She produced Virunga (2014) and The White Helmets (2016), for which she received nominations for Academy Award in the categories of Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary (Short Subject), respectively; she won the latter.
Virunga Foundation, nature conservation body, mainly in the Virunga National Park; DC Virunga, a Congolese football club based in Goma; Stade de Virunga, a multi-use stadium in Goma; Virunga, a 2014 documentary; Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey, Canadian title of the 1987 book Woman in the Mists by Farley Mowat
DiCaprio at the UK premiere of The Wolf of Wall Street in 2014. Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor who began his career performing as a child on television. He appeared on the shows The New Lassie (1989) and Santa Barbara (1990) and also had long-running roles in the comedy-drama Parenthood (1990) and the sitcom Growing Pains (1991).