Bird Island

2011 FESTIVAL
39 min.
Filmmaker: Sara Poisson.
There is a magical island unlike any other on Earth. Less than a quarter of a square mile, Isla Rasa is so small it is difficult to find on a map. Some creatures, however, do not need a map. Generations of seabirds have found a way to this enchanted isle of Eden in the heart of Mexico’s Gulf of California. For three months every spring this flat and barren rock comes to life as over a half a million birds gather on one tiny island to multiply. Soon hundreds of thousands of chicks will greet the world head on, learn how to live, struggle to survive and eventually take to the sky– a bird’s eye view of the circle of life.