recently held at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center. Rock legend turned conservationist, Huey Lewis, was part of a film premiere press conference.
With millions of self-described bird lovers in America and the support of both Ducks Unlimited and the National Audubon Society to activate local audiences, “We’re seeing a great deal of interest in the film from theaters across not only North America but the globe,” says Amber Hawtin of Toronto-based SK Films, the international distributor of Wings Over Water. What most people don’t know is that both Keaton and Lewis have long supported conservation causes, so signing on to Wings Over Water was, well, a natural. In addition, they attached Hollywood A-lister Michael Keaton to narrate the film-who better than Birdman? Moreover, to add some star power to a crane courtship sequence, the producers went to Grammy winner Huey Lewis to secure rights to his chart-topper, Power of Love.
The producers enlisted Academy Award nominated filmmaker Andrew Young and the best bird cinematographers in the IMAX world to create the stunning film that was more than two years in the making. history of supporting conservation causes, lending his celebrity to raise awareness to critical issues facing the environment. Educating and enlisting the support of the public, mainstream media, political and agency leaders from Washington DC to Ottawa, and state and provincial leaders is part of a long-term strategy to build support for sustainable conservation measures across the prairies. As the pressure to feed a hungry planet intensifies-especially with the disruption of grain production in Ukraine-the challenge to save the prairies will be increasingly nuanced. In dry years, it’s easy to convert wetlands to crops by plowing through them, forever altering the region’s ability to produce wildlife. According to Cornell, grassland bird species have declined by 53 percent, or 720 million birds over the last half century. Much of the drastic decline in continental bird numbers can be attributed to the loss of prairie habitats. “The idea wasn’t so much to make a movie,” says Potter, “as it was to ignite a movement to save the prairies.” That’s where the idea of producing an IMAX film became the cornerstone of a much broader mission to help brand the prairie wetlands, elevating awareness of the region to something more on par with other of the world’s famous wild places. The 3-D film was more than two years in the making and celebrates the rich diversity of bird life found on the 300,000-square mile prairie wetlands. Bird lovers flocked to a recent premiere screening of 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 at the Denver.
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