This one isn’t exactly Narcos, but it’s slim pickings this week, you guys. We know it doesn’t exactly sound riveting, but with a fresh score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, this 80 minute documentary from Sundance and Emmy Award winning filmmaker Judy Irving sounds like a pretty good bet to us. If you’re a lover of documentaries, ‘flying dinosaurs’, or just nature programmes in general, then Pelican Dreams is a good way to spend a chilled out evening.
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).
