Pablo’s family, across generations
David Attenborough first encountered Pablo as a young mountain gorilla. A Gorilla Story revisits that encounter and follows Pablo’s descendants in Rwanda. The family provides a continuous thread between Attenborough’s early work and the filmmakers’ present-day observations.
James Reed directs the film, which pairs archival footage with contemporary filming. Attenborough narrates, drawing in part on his journals from 1978. The narration gives the older footage the perspective of someone who was there.