Pelican Dreams

Whatever you think you know about pelicans, PELICAN DREAMS will surprise you.
-- Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

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Pelican Dreams

What’s it like to try to get to know a flying dinosaur? Sundance and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (“The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”) follows a wayward California brown pelican from her “arrest” on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans’ nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration, and survival challenges. The film is about wildness: how close can we get to a wild animal without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it? Pelican Dreams stars “Gigi” (for Golden Gate) and Morro (a backyard pelican with an injured wing).
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Genre
Documentary, Nature
Runtime
79
Language
English
Director
Judy Irving
FEATURED REVIEW
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

Judy Irving injects just enough of herself into her “Pelican Dreams” to distinguish this sweet film from an episode of the PBS series “Nature.” It’s a nicely photographed study of California’s brown pelicans, fascinating birds with a spectacular divebombing method of feeding. Ms. Irving, who ...

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