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Jacques Perrin presents

“WINGED MIGRATION”

85 Minutes.

Not Yet Rated by the MPAA.

A Sony Pictures Classics Release.

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WINGED MIGRATION

Filmmakers

Director

Co-Directors

JACQUES PERRIN

JACQUES CLUZAUD

MICHEL DEBATS

JACQUES PERRIN

STÉPHANE DURAND

JACQUES PERRIN

CHRISTOPHE BARRATIER

JACQUES PERRIN

JEAN DE TRÉGOMAIN

REINHARD BRUNDIG

DANIÈLE DELORME

JEAN-MARC HENCHOZ

JEAN LABADIE

JOSÉ MARÍA MORALES

ANDREA OCCHIPINTI

YVES ROBERT

MICHAEL BENJAMIN

SYLVIE CARCEDO-DREUJOU

LAURENT CHARBONNIER

LUC DRION

LAURENT FLEUTOT

PHILIPPE GARGUIL

DOMINIQUE GENTIL

BERNARD LUTIC

THIERRY MACHADO

STÉPHANE MARTIN

FABRICE MOINDROT

ERNST SASSE

MICHAEL TERRASSE

THIERRY THOMAS

PHILIPPE BARBEAU

BRUNO COULAIS

MARIE-JOSÈPHE YOYOTTE

RÉGIS NICOLINO

MATHIEU SIMONET

VALENTINE PERRIN

Narrator

Writers

Producers

Executive Producer

Associate Producers

Cinematographers

Sound Recordist

Composer

Editor

Production Design

Stills Photographer

Idea

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WINGED MIGRATION

“For eighty million years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each spring, they

fly vast distances. Each Fall, they fly the same route back. This film is the result of four

years following their amazing odysseys, in the northern hemisphere and then the south,

species by species, flying over seas and continents."

— Jacques Perrin (from “Winged Migration”)

Long one of France's most respected producers (Academy Award Winners “Z”

and “Black and White in Color”) and actors (“Z,” “Cinema Paradiso,” “The

Young Girls of Rochefort,” “Donkey Skin” and “The Brotherhood of the Wolf”),

Jacques Perrin has more recently had a highly successful career creating films

about nature, including “Le Peuple Singe” (monkeys) and “Microcosmos”

(insects) and set in exotic locales (“Himalaya”). Now with his penultimate film

"Winged Migration" Perrin takes on his greatest challenge yet: exploring the

mystery of birds in flight. Five teams of people (more than 450 people, including

17 pilots and 14 cinematographers) were necessary to follow a variety of bird

migrations through forty countries and each of the seven continents. The film

covers landscapes that range from the Eiffel Tower and Monument Valley to the

remote reaches of the Arctic and the Amazon. All manner of man-made

machines were employed, including planes, gliders, helicopters, and balloons, and

numerous innovative techniques and ingeniously designed cameras were utilized

to allow the filmmakers to fly alongside, above, below and in front of their

subjects. The result is a film of staggering beauty that opens one's eyes to the

ineffable wonders of the natural world.

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WINGED MIGRATION

Earthbound, watching the birds fly across the sky, we undertook this film. We had to go

higher, nearer the birds, within striking distance of the stars.

How could we manage it? Man has dreamt of birds since the beginning of time. How to

imagine being among the first to transform this dream into reality? I will always treasure the

memory of the first time we achieved this. The cameraman was following the movements of

the geese, with one hand the assistant pushed away those who came too near the camera: the

whole spool of film ran out. Radiant, tears in their eyes, they looked at me, speechless,

motionless. Their mastery and the technical result were of minor importance, they had been in

the confidence of the birds in flight.

What if, for the space of a year, we no longer waited for the seasons, what if we embarked on

the most fabulous of journeys, what if, abandoning our towns and our countryside, we went on

a tour of the planet?

What if we understood that our borders did not exist, that the earth is a one and only space

and what if we learned to be free as birds?

—Jacques Perrin

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WINGED MIGRATION

About the Birds

“Winged Migration” is a film dedicated to birds and their displacements according to the

seasons. For every one of us, these winged creatures are among the most fascinating, the most

shrouded in mystery and poetry.

Among all the vertebrates, they are the only ones to have mastered the open sky. Through a

series of miracles of evolution, they have conquered all the skies by equipping themselves with

remarkably adapted organs, wings covered with feathers, powerful muscles to move them, the

heart of a long distance runner. They combine a minimum of weight with maximum strength

and ease. They make up one of the most extraordinary successes of evolution, after having

come from a reptilian ancestor crawling on the ground. Their flight gives them an accurate

place in the biosphere; no other animal has ever come to contest this.

Their exceptional faculties have allowed them to answer annual fluctuations in the climates by

finding refuge during the winter far from their homelands where they breed. They are the

undeniable champions among all the long distance migrants.

The life of many of them is spent in long peregrinations between the place where they nest and

the one where they live during the winter. Many change continents. Some fly around the earth

in untiring turns. And this in spite of the risks which await them. In order to better face them,

even the most solitary gather together in gigantic groups, one of the great shows of nature.

To perform these exploits, as in anticipation of the efforts awaiting them, the birds accumulate

reserves of fats before their departure. To guide themselves, they have discovered

astronomical bearings, observing the sun and the stars. They perceive the magnetic field of the

earth as the needle of a compass. They have an internal clock which gives them the time and

the season of the year. The hereditary innate and a part of apprenticeship with their elders,

informs them on the term of their voyages and the skyways to reach them. They know how to

cope with weather conditions in an uninterrupted dialogue with the wind.

“Winged Migration” relates the saga of these myriad of birds all along their migration routes.

—Professor Jean Dorst, French Academy of Sciences

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