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TALES FROM PLANET EARTH

Ghost Bird screens in Madison, Wisconsin at the Tales From Planet Earth environmental film festival.  In association with the University of Wisconsin, this event promises to be among the most active conservation communities Ghost Bird has had the honor to appear before.  Joining in the post-screening discussion will be the International Crane Foundation, whose work benefits cranes, their habitat, and countless other species worldwide.

Saturday, November 7, 1:30pm
4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave.
Madison, Wisconsin

EUROPEAN PREMIERE!

“A subtle and brilliant film about the difficult relationship between nature and our presence on the planet.” Laura Buffoni, Villa Medici Program Notes

“The section “Eye on the world” looks at our planet and the risks run by nature, offering unmissable documentaries: “The Cove,” “The End of the Line,” “Ghost Bird”.” Adamo Dagradi, Bresciaoggi

Ghost Bird arrives in Rome for two showings at Europe’s newest and next to Cannes, most spectacular international film festival. Highlighting the very best of 2009’s environmental docs, Ghost Bird  joins the ranks of Sundance favorites The Cove and The End Of The Line, screening in the festival’s Focus Section.  As one of only two US films selected to screen in the Villa Medici atop the Spanish Steps, this signifies Ghost Bird’s highest recognition and may be a turning point in its capacity to do for bird conservation what End Of The Line is doing for the planet’s disappearing fish populations.

The choice of the Medici Villa to host the festival’s environmental Focus Section carries special significance.  This is where Galileo was imprisoned until he renounced his heretical conclusion that it is the earth which rotates around the sun and not the other way around.  Moral: science is rarely well served by the political interests of powerful institutions.  FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE del FILM di ROMA

Friday, October 16, 6:00pm
Tuesday, October 20, 8:30pm
Villa Medici

See the interview in Rome of the director with FILMFANATICS

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HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

Ghost Bird comes home to Arkansas for opening and closing weekends of this Academy Award qualifying documentary film festival. This is the literal and figurative state in which it all happened and promises to be an unforgettable experience. HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

Saturday, October 17, 2:50pm
Saturday October 24, 4:35pm
The historic Malco Theater

Environmental Film Panel

Get the low down on making environmental films in this thought provoking HSDFF panel discussion including directors Scott Crocker (Ghost Bird), Robert Keener (Food Inc.), and James Levack (Peaceable Kingdom.)

In an age of mass consumption, environmental issues are becoming a hot and heated topic. What risks are involved for filmmakers that challenge large corporations and industries, and what possible benefit do these films serve for our culture at large?  Moderator Ben Meade

Saturday, Oct. 24 10:30am

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SOUTHERN PREMIERE at INDIE MEMPHIS

Indie Memphis honors Ghost Bird with the Soul of Southern Filmmaking Award!

Only thirty minutes from Brinkley, Arkansas and the Bayou deView’s Hot Zone for Ivory-bill sightings, this Southern Premiere promises to be a reckoning for the region that lived and breathed woodpeckermania.  Joe Bob says check it out. INDIE MEMPHIS

For everyone who was unable to get tickets, an encore screening has been added for Tuesday.

Sunday, October 11, 12:00pm
Malco’s Studio on the Square

Encore Screening:  October 13, 1:00

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WEST COAST  PREMIERE at CINEMA BY THE BAY

“The unqualified gem of Cinema By the Bay is Scott Crocker’s Ghost Bird…beautifully crafted, heartbreaking, ironic and infuriating. It’s a stunner.” Michael Fox, NPR San Francisco

Ghost Bird is honored to have been selected with four other Bay Area feature films and a fist full of shorts to launch San Francisco’s only showcase of locally grown, free range films.  Cinema By The Bay is brought to you by the San Francisco Film Society, programmers of the San Francisco International Film Festival, and runs October 22nd through 25th with Ghost Bird screening on Sunday the 25th at 2PM at Landmark’s Clay Theater.  Tickets available through the SF Film Society, while they last…

Sunday, October 25th, 2:00pm
Landmark’s Clay Theater

“The San Francisco Film Society’s inaugural Cinema by the Bay festival celebrates the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the intelligence and probing spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of America’s film and media frontier…a compelling window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its best.”

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RECENT PRESS FROM MAINE

“…incredibly well done.  Takes you from laughing to crying to reflection while exploring the multi-faceted ways in which society interacts with and views the natural world through the story of the reported rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.“  Jeff Wells, P.H.D., original Ivory-bill search team member & Senior Scientist, Boreal Songbird Initiative

“I highly recommend this film.” Herb Wilson, professor of ornithology, Colby College, Portland Press Herald

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GHOST BIRD’S GOT MOXIE!

TWO MORE MIGHTY MAINE SCREENINGS ADDED.

Ghost Bird continues its tour of historic theaters with a screening in Rockland’s vintage Strand Theater August 30th at 5:00.

In September Ghost Bird gives new meaning to dinner and a movie when it comes to Bar Harbor’s Reel Pizza.  Bingo anyone?  Screening on the 11th or 12th – check Reel Pizza’s calendar for date and time.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO LOUIS BEVIER

A special thanks to Louis Bevier, a research scientist in biology at Colby College,  for participating in the post-premiere discussion at the Maine International Film Festival.  It was great to be in the company of Louis Bevier and his awesome knowledge of birds and bird identification in particular.  Louis’s experience reviewing rare bird reports is largely what lead him early into the Ivory-billed controversy as co-author with David Sibley of the first serious critique of  Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology Science article announcing the miraculous rediscovery. Louis also maintains the informative website Ivory-billed Debate that continues to question the rediscovery which he believes is eclipsing the wider and imminent conservation concerns of habitat and species loss.  (Thanks also to Louis’s family for letting him delay joining their summer vacation so he could make the screening!)

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THE MUSIC HALL IN PORTSMOUTH, NH

A fourth MIFF screening of Ghost Bird will take place in the stunning Music Hall Theater in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday the 18th at 3:30. The historic Music Hall was built in 1878, seats 900 (!), is the oldest theater in New Hampshire and was designated an “American Treasure” by the U.S. Senate.

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US PREMIERE!

In partnership with Maine Audubon, GHOST BIRD has its US Premiere at the Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) on July 11th in Waterville.  This puts Ghost Bird in good company since the documentary Man on Wire also screened at MIFF following its World Premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto last year.  It then went on to win the academy award for best feature documentary.  Screening over 100 films every summer, MIFF’s past highlights include Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Pollock.  (see the screening link below for more information)

SCREENING TIMES at MIFF

SATURDAY JULY 11th at 3:30 The Opera House Theater (special event to follow, see below)

SUNDAY JULY 12th at 12:30 The Railroad Square Cinema

MONDAY JULY 13th at 9:00 PM The Railroad Square Cinema

SATURDAY JULY 18TH 3:30 PM The Music Hall, Portsmouth New Hampshire

Following the US Premiere screening on Sunday join Ghost Bird’s Director along with leading Maine conservationists in kicking off the film’s environmental outreach campaign with a lively discussion about how science, belief, and politics impact species loss and habitat preservation.

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WORLD PREMIERE!

Ghost Bird just had its world premiere at HotDocs International Film Festival and all of its screenings were SOLD OUT!  The film appeared in the World Showcase program, “a global survey of the year’s finest documentaries,” which forms the heart of the largest documentary festival in North America.   (For reviews and press from the festival go to the Reviews link below.)

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DISTRIBUTION GRANT AWARDED!

Ghost Bird has been awarded a grant by The Berkeley Film Foundation in partnership with The Sau

l Zaentz Company (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).  On

e of only two films to receive full funding, Ghost Bird will use the $10,000 grant money to develop distribution strategies with a focus on innovative environmental outreach.  Watch this space for exciting announcements of collaborations between Ghost Bird, conservation organizations and applied new technology!

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BOOK A SCREENING

If you or your organization are interested in booking a future screening of Ghost Bird at a local theater, university, college or museum please contact info@ghostbirdmovie.com for scheduling information.