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Spring Sustainability Series: THE MESSENGER

Director: Su Rynard

Running Time: 89 minutes

Su Rynards wide-ranging and contemplative documentary The Messenger explores our deep-seated connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey to the streets of New York, The Messenger brings us face-to-face with a remarkable variety of human-made perils that have devastated thrushes, warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks and many other airborne music-makers.

-Their findings unequivocally caution on the necessity of averting the birds extinction because they are an integral part of the ecological systema?| The slow-motion close-ups alone should convince you these magnificent creatures are well worth the effort.- a?" Martin Tsai, The Los Angeles Times