Ghost Bird-Boulder, CO

Get a rare sighting of Ghost Bird as it screens during the 2010 BIODIVERSITY BENEFIT TOUR

With the United Nation's having declared 2010 International Biodiversity Year, join the award-winning documentary Ghost Bird in helping to protect and raise awareness for the planet's precious biodiversity.  Ghost Bird tells the timely story of the Ivory-billed woodpecker's miraculous rediscovery in 2005. The bird’s resurrection was heralded around the world as proof that conservation eff orts on behalf of threatened species were making the critical difference between life and death.  While the fate of Ivory-bills remains uncertain, there is no question the vital role local conservation e fforts play in reversing the planet's extinction crisis.  

Featuring music by The Pixies, The Black Keys, Under Byen, Hazmat Modine, The Black Heart Procession and an original score by Zoë Keating.

Critical Acclaim for Ghost Bird

"This spellbinding documentary takes a small item from recent history—the alleged discovery of the extinct ivory-billed woodpecker near a small, depressed Arkansas town in 2005, and the media and scientific hoopla that ensued—and turns it into a cosmic lament for the forest primeval and man’s search for environmental redemption." - Critic's Pick!   New York Magazine

"Scott Crocker has turned a bird-watching tale into a multilayered story that will fascinate practically everybody in “Ghost Bird,” a witty, wistful documentary about the supposed rediscovery in Arkansas of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird thought to have been extinct for decades." - The New York Times

"By turns comic, mesmerizing and deeply poignant, this investigative documentary is reminiscent of the work of Errol Morris in the way it casts a spell while telling a story and building a case...And as if the story weren’t strong enough, Crocker’s camera makes rhapsodic forays into the bayou, letting the watery forest come alive as a character in its own right."  - Macleans

"Apart from an endangered bird and an equally endangered town, Ghost Birdconsiders the ways in which collegial debate, intellectual rigor, and a collective desire for objective truth are in danger of extinction." - Artforum

"...witty and metaphysical, "Ghost Bird" evokes the offbeat Americana of Errol Morris's "Vernon, Florida," while examining the nature of belief and the blurry margins of fact." - The Wall Street Journal

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