1,400 Days in the wild: Inside the intimate drama of Zambia’s predator kingdom

For 1,400 days, a wildlife film crew lived and worked in Zambia’s Nsefu sector, documenting the lives of lions, leopards, hyenas and wild dogs in one of the most socially complex predator landscapes in Africa. What emerged was not just a study of survival, but a layered portrait of family, conflict, resilience and the strange intimacy that develops when humans spend long enough on the edge of the wild.

For one of the filmmakers, who began her career in a biochemistry lab before turning to the natural world...