Emptying the Skies (2013)
78 min
If you want to impress your dining companions in Cyprus, it's not caviar that you order, but ambelopoulia: a tiny songbird. But as this gripping doc reveals, the cost to bring such delicacies to the table is enormous. Bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen takes a break from the world of fiction to guide us through an all too horrifying reality: tens of millions of protected migratory songbirds are illegally killed every year. Franzen, a longtime bird lover, accompanies young staffers of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter on their expeditions. With police enforcement in Southern Europe practically non-existent, they risk their lives to rescue trapped birds, and confront hostile poachers. It's a topic that proves a cultural flashpoint -- the Cypriot landowners cannot understand why a bunch of Italians can tell them what to do on their land.
- Data de estreia
- 22 de abril de 2015
- País de origem
- Ainda indisponível
Trailer
Elenco
- Peter Berthold como Self
- Sergio Coen Tanugi como Self
- David Conlin como Self
- Jonathan Franzen como Self
- Martin Hellicar como Self
- Alex Heyd como Self
- Axel Hirschfeld como Self
- Piero Liberati como Self
- Andrea Rutigliano como Self
Equipe
- Douglas Kass · Diretor(a)
- Douglas Kass · Roteirista
- Roger Kass · Produtor(a)
- Laurie Anderson · Compositor(a)
- Marty Beller · Compositor(a)
- Douglas Kass · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Michael Tucker · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Michael Levine · Editor(a)