Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, August 26: GHOST BIRD
Scott Crocker’s investigation into birding wish fulfillment made its debut at Hot Docs in 2009. It went on to screen at Indie Memphis, Rome, Hot Springs, and Big Sky, among others.
I previously wrote about the film out of Hot Docs for Indiewire, saying:
The apparent sighting of a long-thought-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker sets off Scott Crocker’s investigatory film. While the fabled bird’s re-emergence is validated by authorities, leading to Woodpeckermania in the neighboring community, corroborating evidence proves elusive, sparking a debate encompassing science, commerce, hope, and conservation. Demonstrating canny storytelling, Crocker draws the viewer into the hoopla before unpacking the debate about whether the bird has, in fact, been re-discovered – and what that means for the small Arkansas town that has been put on the birding map, as well as for the truly endangered avian species that could use even a fraction of the attention.
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