To teach a bird to fly
Newsletter 30/01/2020
During the last season, a Finnish media team produced a film which was shown on January 28, 2020, at DOCPOINT, the biggest Scandinavian documentary film festival. It was a great success. Maria Gullsten, the producer from Flatlight Creative House, aims to present the documentary also at other international film festivals.
According to the directors Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts, ‘To Teach a Bird to Fly’ is an experimental documentary-fiction film that explores bird extinction and climate change through a fictionalized story from the future:
It's hard to imagine how people just let it happen. How could things go so far before anyone intervened?
An old book of extinct animals reveals the harsh truth. Instead of an epitaph, it now feels like a damning piece of evidence against humanity. All these extinct and endangered species. How was this even possible?
Now, the world is again full of life once in danger of disappearing.
This experimental nature documentary by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts depicts climate change and the wave of extinction from the point of view of our near future. Actually, it depicts the age we live in now, or rather its fateful consequences.
A bird as common as the starling was in danger of disappearing altogether from the wild. Until a few “rebels” decided to start protecting the bald ibises. "It felt completely natural for us to help when other species needed it."
By depicting the German Waldrapp project, the documentary turns the dystopic probability into a hopeful possibility. In the film’s universe, all is well once again - or not exactly all, as it was too late to save the glaciers. They melted.
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