Northwest Tracking
SAVING PELICAN 895
DIRECTOR: IRENE TAYLOR BRODSKY
PORTLAND, 2011
VISITING ARTIST—Portland documentary Oscar nominee (THE FINAL INCH) and Peabody winner (HERE AND NOW), Irene Taylor Brodsky’s new film tells the gripping story of the rescue of pelican “LA 895”—one of the oiled bird victims of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill—by the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Louisiana. Neither a story that compounds the horrors we already know about our nation’s worst oil disaster nor a treatise on oil production or consumption, SAVING PELICAN 895 is the tale of a single animal and the compassionate people deployed to save him, showing how the process of saving one life restored a degree of humanity for the rest of us. (40 mins.)
FREE ADMISSION
Director Irene Taylor Brodsky will introduce the film.
Special thanks to HBO Documentary Films, with reception to follow. Co-sponsored by Ecotrust.