Friday, April 17, 2015

Fwd: Emptying The Skies Premiering at Cinema Village 4/22





-----Original Message-----
From: michael.musicbox@gmail.com
To: info
Sent: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 12:20 pm
Subject: Emptying The Skies Premiering at Cinema Village 4/22

Hello Brookyln Bird Club

I represent Music Box Films and our new film, Emptying The Skies, is being released at Music Box Theatre in Chicago on Earth Day 4/22. The film follows a dedicated group of activists as they try and save endangered Songbirds from trappers. 

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.  Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, with a number of species facing imminent extinction. 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 market, and follows the intrepid squad of pan-European bird-lovers waging a secret war against poachers, disrupting illegal trapping to free as many as possible.  


We were hoping you could spread the word of this film to the rest of your interested community at the Brookyln Bird Club

Best, 

Michael Garcia 

Marketing, Music Box Films