EMPTYING THE SKIES - newportFILM Outdoors presented by Kirby Perkins Construction, newportFILM Green Screen presented by Aquidneck Land Trust & Libby Kirwin Real Estate

Join newportFILM & the Norman Bird Sanctuary for one of the last outdoor films of the season! What's better than a wonderful doc about birds at the bird sanctuary?

EMPTYING THE SKIES
newportFILM Outdoors presented by Kirby Perkins Construction
newportFILM Green Screen presented by Aquidneck Land Trust
Event presented by Libby Kirwin Real Estate

Norman Bird Sanctuary, 583 3rd Beach Road, Middletown

** This event is a joint fundraiser to benefit newportFILM & Norman Bird Sanctuary **

Post-film Q&A with producer and co-director Roger Kass

We are offering two options for the evening:
Starting at 6:30PM
Appetizers courtesy of Glorious Affairs + Libations by Spiked Seltzer + Live Music + Sunset film screening
$30/person (purchase online or at the door)
- OR -
Starting at 7:45PM
Sunset film screening only 
$5/person suggested donation (donate at the door)

- Tallulah on Thames taco cart & Le Petit Gourmet will be on-site selling food
- Picnics welcome

Rain Venue: Casino Theater, 9 Freebody Street, Newport

More Info: http://bit.ly/1kzQTOv
Watch trailer: http://bit.ly/1kzQTOv

ABOUT THE FILM:
Based on a magazine essay written by noted best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen for The New Yorker and widely republished around the world, Emptying the Skies chronicles the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, and a number of species face extinction imminently. The film explores the wonder of these tiny globe-flying marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market, and follows an intrepid squad of pan-European bird-lovers who risk their lives waging a secret war against poachers, disrupting illegal trapping and freeing as many birds as possible.

To make Emptying the Skies, the filmmakers spent nearly a year in the field, going from mission to mission, from summer to fall to winter to spring embedded with our subjects as they operated their “camps” to confront poachers at critical migration pinch-points in Cyprus, France and Italy. Filming took place in Germany and Manhattan as well.

Emptying the Skies is Jonathan Franzen’s first foray into motion picture production. 

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