Now that the summer super-hero films have come and gone a new birding movie is quietly making the rounds. Called “Birders: The Central Park Effect” the movie was recently shown on HBO.
It is described as a joyful look at the extraordinary array of wild birds in Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green—and the equally colorful New Yorkers who gather to spot them. Featuring renowned guide Starr Saphir, who has documented her sightings for 70 years, along with author Jonathan Franzen and a host of other passionate birders, this documentary reveals a dazzling world rarely noticed by the 38 million people who visit the park each year.
The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville is showing the film on Wednesday Oct 3rd. Following the movie a reception and Q&A session will feature the film’s cinematographers, a author who appears at length in the film and a trip leader/naturalist from Teatown Reservation and Saw Mill River Audubon
For details: http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org
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