The Birds
A renowned wildlife filmmaker, facing the twilight of his career, sets out to use his camera to decipher the relationship between a million seabirds and a single hunting falcon in England’s Wash estuary. Ultimately his cinematic portrait of this “cosmic event” provides crucial insights both into the hidden mechanisms of the natural world and the psyche of a filmmaker coming to terms with the end of a life well lived.
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After the films, we heard from Naamal DeSilva of the American Bird Conservancy and Wild Hope: Building for Birds filmmaker, Sam LeGrys.
Filmmaker: David Allen
Running Time: 40 mins
Language: English
Type: Official Selection – Short
With five Emmys and 12 Wildscreen Pandas to his name, David Allen is recognized as one of the leading independent producer/directors in his field. Allen, though his film company, Passion Planet, produced Emmy award-winning The Serengeti Rules, The Octopus in My House, and My Garden of a Thousand Bees, which was chosen to open the 40th anniversary year of PBS series Nature and also won the Golden Panda in 2022. His drama documentary on the bestselling book Wilding by Isabella Tree was the biggest grossing documentary in the UK in 2024.
