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Mar 31, 2015 · This poignant documentary explores the wonder of these tiny globe-trekking marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black...
- 2 min
- 7.3K
- Music Box Films
Apr 22, 2015 · Emptying the Skies: Directed by Douglas Kass, Roger Kass. With Peter Berthold, Sergio Coen Tanugi, David Conlin, Jonathan Franzen. As the migratory songbirds are sold by the thousands to the black market, the members of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter wage war against the poachers.
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- Documentary
- Douglas Kass, Roger Kass
- 2015-04-22
Apr 22, 2015 · Millions of migratory songbirds are hunted in Cyprus and turned into ambelopoulia, a local delicacy.
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- Documentary
- Doug Kass
Franzen, a longtime bird lover, accompanies young staffers of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter on their expeditions. With police enforcement in Southern Europe practically non-existent, they risk their lives to rescue trapped birds, and confront hostile poachers.
- Doug Kass, Roger Kass
- 78 min
- 14
Apr 22, 2015 · Based on a widely republished New Yorker essay by best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen, Emptying the Skies exposes the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe.
- Douglas Kass, Roger Kass
- Peter Berthold
In Emptying The Skies, a documentary by Douglas and Roger Kass, the creatures in question are migratory songbirds, many of which are dwindling in numbers and some of whose extinction is becoming alarmingly more likely each year as a result of poaching in southern Europe — most prevalently in Cyprus.
Documentary. Based on an essay written by noted best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen for The New Yorker and widely republished around the world, Emptying the Skies chronicles the...
