If you’ve ever wanted to see THE LION KING told by real lions, this is the closest you’re going to get. While there’s no race to be king, AFRICAN CATS does tell the real-life story of two animal families living in the African Savannah.
The film focuses in on a mother lion with her cub daughter, a mother cheetah raising five newborns, and the leader of the pride who must defend his family from a rival lion and his sons. But the story is one thing… the imagery is another. Like every nature doc, it’s the pictures that carry the story, and nothing keeps an audience captivated better than adorable, adorable baby lions and cheetahs (and the nature shots, obviously).
Aptly releasing on Earth Day, the film is more than just a stunning and heartwarming story about big cats living in the wild. The African Wildlife Foundation is also running the campaign “See African Cats, Save the Savanna,” which is an initiative devoted to saving acres of land in Kenya for wild animals.
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and theme song by AMERICAN IDOL winner Jordin Sparks, it has that “pop-culture” niche needed to draw in the docu-droaning crowd.