Directed by Annie Kaempfer
USA | 2021 | Documentary | 75 min | English
Film Source: Cargo Film Releasing
Sponsors: Ducky & Frank Donath
Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in New England.
Best Environmental Feature at BendFilm and a Special Jury Prize at Cinema on the Bayou. Rodney Stotts is one of just a few certified African-American falconers in the US. In this surprising and incisive portrait of a remarkable man, we see Rodney overcome his troubled past and pervasive racial discrimination to devote himself to the art and sport of falconry. Ultimately, Rodney is a life-force, a soaring falconer and poet, a protector of his community and of the natural world. With visually sumptuous photography, a socially engaged perspective, and a great soundtrack taboot, filmmaker Annie Kaempfer offers a complex portrait of the life-long travails of being a Black man in America. ~AM
*Followed by a Q&A via Zoom with the director (Friday screening only).
*Annie Kaempfer serves on the Board of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital and has consulted for the Ford Foundation, JustFilms and FotoDC.