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A small bird with a yellow stripe on its head is handled carefully by a woman in navy blue scrubs.

Broken Flight [short film]

  Erika Valenciana, Mitchell Wenkus

  United States     18 minutes

Synopsis

Winding through the maze of downtown Chicago, the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CCCM) work alongside the Field Museum and Willowbrook Wildlife Center to rescue birds that collide with skyscrapers, and study the birds that are killed during their annual migrations. The tenderhearted work presents a lens of environmental change that impacts every urban landscape.

This film screens as part of the City & State Shorts: Now and Then program.

 English 

Film Credits

  •   Erika Valenciana; Mitchell Wenkus
  •   Magdalena Hernandez
  •   Mitchell Wenkus
  •   Chris Otepka, Adam Tisdale, Steven Wilson