Virunga Doc Now Available on Netflix

In what has become the new normal in today’s global mediascape, the documentary film Virunga has been release simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming site Netflix. The deal to make the film available for streaming was brokered with Netflix by Leonardo DiCaprio through his production company, Appian Way Productions.

Written and directed by Orlando von Einseidel, Virunga follows a group of national park rangers who risk life and limb to protect the last of the world’s mountain gorillas as civil war and the battle over the Congo’s natural resources rages around them.

The film is expected to garner multiple award nominations.