Sky Migrations

Screened at FCFF 2018

  • Year 2016
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 15 min
  • Director Max Lowe, Forest Woodward, & Charles Post
  • Topics

Film Synopsis

Each fall our skies fill with the wings of migrating raptors, a migration that relies on two hemispheres worth of wild and healthy ecosystems. Join ecologist and filmmaker, Charles Post, as he shines a light on the network of backcountry scientists and sentinels at the front lines of raptor conservation.

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