The Falconer (2020)
This intimate portrait film follows master falconer Rodney Stotts on his mission to build a bird sanctuary and to provide access to nature for his stressed community. The Falconer weaves his present-day mission with the story of his past, both of which are deeply rooted in issues of social and environmental injustice. Stotts’s worldview in a nutshell: nature heals. In a forgotten corner of our nation’s capital, he takes the time to break through to those too often dismissed as “hard to reach.” This is a story of second chances: for injured birds of prey, for an abandoned plot of land, for a group of teenagers who have dropped out of high school, and for the falconer himself.
Director: Annie Kaempfer
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Rodney Stotts as himself |
| Editing | Juliet Weber | Editor |
| Editing | Jason Pollard | Editor |
| Production | William Stefan Smith | Producer |
| Crew | Annie Kaempfer | Cinematography |
| Production | Annie Kaempfer | Producer |
| Directing | Annie Kaempfer | Director |