OVERLAND

USA, 2020, 105 min

Directors: Revere La Noue, Elisabeth Haviland James

Producers: Elisabeth Haviland James, Revere La Noue

Editors: Elisabeth Haviland James, Revere La Noue

Cinematographer: Benjamin Pritchard

Husband and wife team Revere La Noue and Elisabeth Haviland James set off to make Overland as a response to an ever-modernizing world that leaves little room for the wild. While spending hundreds of hours in the field with three falconers--American Lauren McGough, Emirati racer Khalifa bin Mejren and Italy’s Giovanni Granati--they discovered a shared humanity across cultures, borders and religions. The filmmakers were determined to film in pristine locations avoiding the imagery of our overly industrialized landscape. Through the use of a drone and with thoughtfully planned falcon flight routes they revealed stunning, dynamic compositions of open, borderless realms that had never been seen before. Amazingly, the falcons of Overland never seemed to mind the drone--maybe they thought it was too slow to be a threat or not tasty enough to eat.

Elisabeth Haviland James is a Peabody and Emmy winning filmmaker whose work has screened theatrically, on television and in museums. Revere La Noue is an artist and filmmaker working on a wide array of projects all over the world.

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