Emptying the Skies
Mountainfilm 2014
November 21 - 23, 2014
Q&A with co-director Roger Kass!
Just as The Cove exposed the tragic slaughtering of the dolphins of Taiji, Emptying the Skies serves European migratory songbirds with a similar purpose. Screening with: Fear of Flying (Conor Finnegan, 9m).
Q&A with co-director Roger Kass!
Just as The Cove (Mountainfilm 2009) exposed the tragic slaughtering of the dolphins of Taiji, Emptying the Skies considers the plight of European migratory songbirds with a similar purpose. Fighting the good fight against the poachers who slaughter the birds to sell to chefs are fearless activists and the novelist Jonathan Franzen, a devoted amateur ornithologist whose story in The New Yorker inspired this documentary.
Screening with:
Fear of Flying
Conor Finnegan | Ireland | 2012 | digital projection | 9m
In this lovely animated short, a bird tries to overcome his greatest fear.
Emptying the Skies
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