African Cats

African Cats
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKeith Scholey
Alastair Fothergill
Produced byAlix Tidmarsh
Keith Scholey
Narrated bySamuel L. Jackson (US version)
Patrick Stewart (UK version)
Music byNicholas Hooper
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22) (United States)
  • February 1, 2012 (2012-02-01) (France)
  • April 27, 2012 (2012-04-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesUnited States
France
United Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
French
Budget$5 million[2]
Box office$30.9 million[3]

African Cats (known as Felines in France) is a 2011 nature documentary film about a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs trying to survive in the African savannah directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. The film was released theatrically by Disneynature on Earth Day, April 22, 2011.[4][5] The film is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson (Patrick Stewart in the UK release). A portion of the proceeds for the film were donated to the African Wildlife Foundation and their effort to preserve Kenya's Amboseli Wildlife Corridor.[6][7][8] The film's initiative with the African Wildlife Foundation is named "See African Cats, Save the Savanna", and as of May 2011, ticket sales translated into 50,000 acres of land saved in Kenya.[9][10][11]

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