- I am gonna go try to find some indri which is, - Oh - Shoot.

Which way?

This way.

Okay.

This would be great for a behind-the-scenes episode.

I think "In Her Nature" is the first of its kind.

- We follow really incredible women working with these critically endangered species.

- This project gets the perspective of local people leading.

We really goes to these remote locations with our all women film crew.

We wanna be capturing the most unique wildlife behavior possible.

- We just have had so much fun.

The eggs in your hair.

We always need to expect the unexpected.

Oh my God.

- It's rolling too.

It's rolling.

I'm just falling.

- You can clap for yourself.

- Jocelyn called me up one day and she was like, Hey, I have this idea for a series.

- I had always felt the need to bring more of a voice to women.

- Used to be a shy girl.

- Working alongside more women.

I really wanted to create a docuseries featuring women- led wildlife conservation solutions around the world.

I knew that I needed to put together the dream team to get it done.

- It had been something that I'd been wanting to do for many years as well.

You know, telling stories about women kicking ass in conservation.

- I started working on big and small cats - And I was like, yeah, let's make it happen.

The most important thing is to realize that whoever they are, wherever they live their lives make a difference.

- Historically, this industry has looked a certain way.

It was important to us to build a diverse team made up primarily of women, and because of that, we were able to bring a powerful, fresh perspective to these stories.

- Grab the GoPro to try this like water shot.

- I really think people are a lot more receptive to conservation stories that have some sort of a solution that they can support.

- We're featuring women all around the world achieving incredible success in wildlife conservation.

- We're showing how community involvement can be a positive influence conserving local wildlife.

- These are the stories that we need to hear right now.

Real success, real results.

We get to be with these women as they witness huge transformations in their communities and with the species that they protect.

- So we are accepting the challenge and really giving them a platform for conservation.

- Sharing stories is the best way to get people engaged, to get them wanting to protect the planet.

- Oh my gosh.

Was that fun?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- That was fun.

Jocelyn is a powerful team leader.

No matter what challenges we're facing, she is always there to keep spirits high.

She's done such an amazing job of finding these stories.

- Jocelyn is incredible.

She loves every animal to walk the earth.

- Early in my career, I spent years documenting rehabilitating wildlife in Borneo.

I saw a lot of suffering.

This series fulfills my need to show the world how important it is for us to coexist with our wildlife.

- Jocelyn has this way of manifesting these incredible moments, and nothing is ever too serious, except if it's the framing of a shot.

- I was super impressed with Jocelyn's cinematography skills, the way she could find these little shots in like a little crack of leaves.

Jocelyn, what are we filming?

These are the ring-tailed lemurs, where right now they're sunbathing, so they can wake up.

- She's always smiling, always happy.

- The back light's so pretty.

- Except if she doesn't get her coffee.

- We dance in the middle of the road.

Then when we are filming, we're really in the zone.

We just completely switch.

- Last night we saw a satanic leaf-tailed gecko.

- We found a tiny dragon and it's satanic, just like us.

We have so much in common.

- We have so much in common.

She embodies the whole series in her being.

- So pretty.

- That's the coolest, trying to do that, but in the front.

- We're setting up for Mo's interview.

I'm doing a little video and look what they just made us.

They made us a diffuser.

- Katie.

- Oh man.

Katie is definitely my better half in so many ways.

She has been a huge inspiration.

- Yeah, there's a lot I can say in that.

- She's an incredible director.

- Rest out for a while.

She's probably gonna go sky high and stay up there, but - That's good for her.

She should be up there.

She'll have these really creative ideas and then she'll help us really develop it out.

Let's swap turtles.

Whenever I'm able to actually help her create that vision.

Those are definitely the moments where I'm so proud.

- Kind of just see that I get to work with her ready.

She gets excited about every rock and every tiny bug.

- The click keto.

- Does it click?

- Yeah, when it feels threatening, - She is obsessed with cockroaches.

- They have a special mucus that they secrete all over their bodies that keeps them really clean.

- She's also so nerdy in a really wonderful way.

- Isn't it beautiful?

It's little like so leg flaps.

- Her mind is already in the edit in the film when she's out in the field.

- She's incredible at storytelling and character development.

- She also has a really beautiful artistic vision, which has been fun to bounce ideas off of.

- Nepal is wild, probably one of the wildest places I've ever filmed.

- Nepal has achieved this incredible success in conservation.

As a result, there are more animals in the park.

That's fantastic for filming, but it also means we need to take precautions.

- We were surrounded by pretty dangerous megafauna most of the time.

You're constantly on edge.

We were pulling these 12 hour long days.

We kept coming across really fresh tiger tracks.

I had just heard of two women who were killed by tigers and a tiger lunged at us.

- Oh my God.

Our guide, who works with tigers every day, said that it was terrifying.

- We are doing right and we are gonna see two different species of crocodile.

One is very critical endangered species called the Gharial crocodile.

- Doma is this extraordinary trailblazer.

She's overcome tragedy, losing her mother to a rhino attack, then became Nepal's first woman nature guide.

- Katie, what was the highlight moment today?

- It was definitely recovering our crash drone from a charging rhino.

When we were in Nepal, there was this incredible moment where Doma was hanging out with this baby rhino named Puja at this rescue center.

After playing in the water for a while, Puja just kind of like laid down right next to Doma.

- Must be since tired.

She play so much.

It's a long time now, little bit resting.

I don't think she feels so comfortable here.

Maybe some type of spiritual relationship between her and me.

- Jocelyn's just with her back against this vegetation for who knows how long.

When we finally decide to cut, she lifts up her shirt.

- Oh, oh my God.

And she's being bitten all over her body and said, nothing.

Jocelyn will go to extreme length to get the shot.

- Doma is teaching us what to do if a rhino charges.

- Jocelyn has like a foresight of where to be when.

That day she was like, we need to be at the spot shooting rhinos.

- During the fight, one young.. look!

Look at here.

It's just this brutal fight for territory.

And then the younger male rhinos horn shatters and breaks off into the water.

- Losing the horn is very rare moment to catch and document.

- In Nepalese national parks, the rangers utilize trained elephants while they're patrolling in tiger territory.

- On the last day of our Nepal shoot, I had an encounter with an elephant.

- Oh my god.

- Tusk to the face.

I was concussed for a while, but ultimately really lucky to come out of that.

- We are in the jungles of Costa Rica right now, and we're surrounded by five sloths.

- Five.

Oh my gosh.

- They're just so hard to see, and that's why it's so important to have tools other than the human eye to find them.

- In Costa Rica, we worked with Becky and Tamara, just thank you very much.

I'm keeping that.

- Becky is the world's leading sloth biologist, and she's teamed up with her real life Wonder Woman bestie.

They've trained a sloth poop detective dog, so that they can begin the first-ever sloth census.

- What's the only animal you don't need to film in high speed - Sloth.

I had this one moment where I'm filming this sloth, and all of a sudden, it grabs onto a branch and it just goes swinging across the whole jungle like Tarzan!

Sometimes you do need to shoot them in slow motion, who knew?

- Sloth experts had thought that sloths get the water that they need from leaves and fruits that they eat.

Turns out, that's not the case.

- Wow, that's amazing.

That's pretty cool.

- We were so lucky to capture, I think for the first time, sloths coming down from the canopy to drink water.

It was absolutely mesmerizing.

- Wow, oh wow.

Oh my God.

Good morning.

- For Madagascar, we are shooting three stories back to back.

We really felt the need to grow our team.

- You want people who are flexible, have a good sense of humor, ready for anything.

- She's pumping some iron.

- No rest for the weary.

Sara's a badass, she gets it done.

- I've been lucky enough to get to join the team in Madagascar.

- You know she's gonna get the shot and bring our vision into fruition with her awesome camera skills.

- Nice seat.

- Let's power tortoise.

I wouldn't mind.

I'd just waddle around.

Go look for a big pile of handy cactus.

Me too.

- Sara's just full of humor.

Even when there's this serious thing happening, she always finds room to be herself.

- They have bumps on the side of their head and their hands are so, - Their mouths are so red.

- I joined this team to help with sound and help with camera operation and camera assistant work.

- Melanie's had the best attitude.

She's the way people should just be when they're wanting to learn, - And it was quite the journey to watch 'em go from this plan.

- She's so devoted and it's been just such a delight.

having her on our team.

- Which fits perfectly with our all female crew.

- And then we have Allegra who came on as a still photographer.

- I was able to bring on a lovely, talented Malagasy woman called Nomena to be a part of our crew.

Having somebody from the place that you're filming in, you are embracing their perspective as well.

- Jocelyn is really great at taking on that mentor role.

Do we wanna record?

Yeah.

- Okay.

Thank you.

It's such a special opportunity to pass on our knowledge of filmmaking to someone so passionate about conservation.

I think you can be a filmmaker and a vet.

Multi-passion!

- That's something that only women can do anyway.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- We have are incredible fixer on this Madagascar shoot.

He's just a riot.

- I'm an ecologist.

I've been working in Madagascar for 32 years.

I've been working with numerous crews.

This is my first all female film crew.

It is a serious job, but working with an all female crew, the crazier they are, the better it is.

- Rainer, you're next.

- All right, kids.

- When I met Maholy, I was instantly enchanted by her energy and her smile and her laugh.

Well, then I found out she's this beautiful unsung hero and an award-winning conservationist, working with the most critically endangered lemurs in the world, including the greater bamboo lemur that has never even been filmed before.

- Jocelyn is the queen of logistics.

The amount of planning and then unplanning and then replanning and fixing that plan.

- It forces you to see these challenges as opportunities.

Madagascar, for example, only has one domestic airplane that has no set time, so there's just things that can derail.

It's very, very hard to get to these places.

- The train is sort of working.

= One of the places we had to take like seven modes of transportation to get there.

- First we started shooting at about five in the morning until the hottest part of the day.

- Then we took these dugout canoes to the other side of the river.

- Then we started a seven mile hike down train tracks.

Trains would come by and we'd have to jump off the tracks to avoid getting hit.

How many bridges do we have?

We had to cross janky bridges with two to 300 foot drops.

- Ooh, that was a little scary.

And then across river rapids.

And then a car ride, - Get that spare tire on.

- And then a tiny airplane.

- And then I think another car ride.

And then once we get to these remote locations, there's definitely daily momentary challenges.

We've had no water, we've had no electricity, we've had all sorts of like different bugs in and out of our potties.

I should just flame myself.

Bed bugs.

There's often a risk of malaria and dengue.

- You know when you spend 24 hours a day together nonstop, it can be tough.

You couldn't get through it without a group like this.

You really couldn't.

Oh, I'm getting good at this.

- While we are shooting in Madagascar, Katie happens to be seven months pregnant.

We experienced every kind of physical challenge imaginable on this expedition.

Long days in the field, trekking, off-roading, not once did I hear Katie complain.

- This is Haiti train tracks.

- In 2019, I was pregnant with Teddy.

I was really excited to go into the field to show other filmmakers and frankly myself, that being pregnant doesn't mean that you can't keep working.

I had a lot of work lined up, but the crew was not comfortable with me being pregnant.

So with Madagascar, I got a second chance.

I'm carrying a little girl for close friends of mine, and while this surrogacy has been uncomfortable at times, I actually feel stronger being active in the field.

- I know Katie.

I trust her.

She knows her body.

She's been to Madagascar before.

She knows what she's signing up for.

- Seeing her in the field seven months pregnant was really inspiring for me.

I want to have a family, it's really tough to do that in this industry.

- I miss you.

I miss you so much.

- Yeah.

- I miss, - Why are we calling mom right now?

- Like a dis because we're with her.

- Teddy was three-years-old when we were filming in Nepal and Costa Rica.

It was definitely hard being away from him.

- What are you doing right now?

I'm going to bed, goodnight.

Goodbye.

- Did you just make it look like the phone went off?

- I'm really fortunate that I have a supportive partner and community and family.

- Okay, the phone's off.

- We need to create space for women to feel like they can have families and work in wildlife conservation.

- I love you so much.

I was just... - A teddy transition.

- I am excited to see where the impact side of these stories takes us.

- I've always wanted to impact conservation through filmmaking.

I've seen it change policy and protect species and impact the world in a really positive way.

- I'm hoping that these series will change people's lives.

- Working on an all women film crew has been a dream come true.

- We're all thinking about how to make the story better and how to bring out the characters and get the wildlife.

Working in the field with people has a way of bringing you close really, really fast.

- Nothing but the best cactus makeup.

This crew has been like a sisterhood.

- I think it's gorgeous.

- Look at her contouring.

You can see it contouring.

- We check in on each other.

We never underestimate each other.

- Moments to endangered lemurs with the famous Maholy.

- It's been really beautiful collaboration on this team.

- That's the magic that happens behind the scenes.

- As young women, it is so special to feel welcomed on set, to feel empowered on set, and to feel like you belong there.

- Oh my God.

- Good job, baby.

Good job.

- We did it.

This worked out better than I imagined.

You start wide at the top and you, I'm sharing better with that.

Slow.

Wow.

We're slowing it down now.

We're doing.