Made in collaboration with Project Owlnet and the Maine Natural History Observatory, Night Owls&nbsp;follows migrating saw-whet owls as they are observed at a research station in Downeast Maine. Part of <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/643468e2b9cc610a6198d4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 1 - Night</a> and <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/64346eaf5b4f4100507779d5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 3 - Feathers &amp; Fins</a>

Night Owls

Imagine trying to count hundreds of thousands of birds in a matter of seconds. This is what Andy Caven does every spring… from a plane. In March, almost a million sandhill cranes pass through Nebraska’s Platte River Valley. For the past 20 years, the Crane Trust has conducted aerial surveys of sandhill crane roosts to get an accurate count of the number of birds that pass through. Andy and his team take us behind the scenes to show us how this is done, what they have learned, and why it’s important. Part of <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/643468e2b9cc610a6198d4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 1 - Night</a>.

Counting Cranes

Batsies&nbsp;is a short, experimental doc that examines two women’s tender relationship with an animal that’s quintessentially feared and loathed: the bat. Sara Weaver and Sarah Fritts are best friends and ecologists who are leading bat conservation efforts in Texas.&nbsp;These ladies have a wicked sense of humor, they curse like sailors, they’re covered in tattoos, and consider themselves outliers within a male-dominated field. Part of <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/643468e2b9cc610a6198d4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 1 - Night</a>.

Batsies

Told from the perspective of activist Narubia Werreria,&nbsp;The Ghost Rainforest&nbsp;follows a group of five indigenous leaders and activists from the Amazon as they make a once-in-a-lifetime journey to a little-known temperate rainforest on the West Coast of Scotland. This visit is set amidst the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, capturing a moment in history when the world needed to listen to indigenous activists, the “guardians of the forests.” This film focuses on the importance of indigenous wisdom to protect these habitats before it’s too late. Part of <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/643468e2b9cc610a6198d4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 1 - Night</a>.

The Ghost Rainforest

During the Jackson Wild summit in 2022, talented young teams made films about the scientific work being done here in the Nationalpark Neusiedler See-Seewinkel in Austria. This is one of those films. Listen to the sounds of the lake. Part of <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/643468e2b9cc610a6198d4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 1 - Night</a>.

Sound of the Lake

The nanoscopic topography of butterfly wings has produced a wealth of data on how structural coloration works. This film is an artistic depiction of how butterflies actually grow these remarkable, infinitesimal patterns. The images that make up this animated film were taken with electron microscopes at magnifications of up to 50,000x. Part of <a href="https://iwff2023.eventive.org/films/643468e2b9cc610a6198d4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shorts Block 1 - Night</a>.

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