NEW YORK (Feb. 12, 2025) — The Calling: A Medical School Journey, a new documentary directed by Asako Gladsjo, follows the intellectual and emotional journey of a group of students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
February 10, 2025 (Chevy Chase, MD): HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Passion Planet, a Passion Pictures company, will premiere their latest feature short film, THE BIRDS, at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Monday, February 17 at 5:45 p.m. MST.
A Make Waves and HHMI/Tangled Bank Studios Production (USA), Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power, Doc Feature – In Blue Carbon, Emmy & BAFTA-winning director Nicolas Brown delivers a visually stunning and sonically rich documentary that fuses science and music to reveal one of nature’s most powerful—and overlooked—climate solutions.
Written and directed by Sally Aitken, Every Little Thing is an intimate and moving documentary focused on author and rehabber Terry Masear, who wants to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. Terry takes in the most fragile of patients through her volunteer hummingbird rescue, but the path to survival is fraught with uncertainty and drama. The film will screen seven times through Sunday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
The flow of water across a giant expanse of featureless mud is pushing hundreds of thousands of birds in motion. The lunar clock shrinks the stage minute by minute, setting in place the start of a battle, or maybe a dance, between a mass gathering of a million sea birds and a single super-speed predator.
The food industry has seen a surge in plant-based and lab-grown alternatives, with Beyond Meat going public in 2019 and Oatly following in 2021. Pat Brown founded Impossible Foods in 2011. Despite the recent challenges faced by Beyond Meat and Oatly, Pat remains committed to his mission, now focusing on tackling climate change and reducing carbon emissions.
About 70 minutes into Every Little Thing, an energetic young bird named Jimmy goes on a rampage. Weeks into his rehabilitation after a fall from his nest, the orphaned Allen’s Hummingbird is ready to move into a shared living situation, a roomy cage with a rambunctious duo dubbed “The Wild Boys.” Terry Masear, our hero, has him in her hand just outside the enclosure when—“Oh, shit”—he breaks loose and shoots up to the ceiling.
If you or anyone you know needs proof that the entire human race isn’t beyond redemption, may I suggest a screening of Sally Aitken’s documentary Every Little Thing.
The film follows Los Angeles author and educator Terry Masear, who rescues injured hummingbirds. She initially came to the work by accident, after her cat brought in an infant bird. The fragility of the tiny creature took her down a fascinating path. “I’m without children,” she says in the film. “I have hummingbirds.”
All of us living in battered, unbowed Los Angeles could use a dose of the restorative right about now. Sally Aitken’s documentary “Every Little Thing” offers just that, giving us a glimpse of some small-scale repair work that bursts with compassion. The job comprises mending hummingbirds, some of the city’s most welcome denizens year round.
Framed by enchanting close-up, slow-motion shots of flowers blooming and hummingbirds flying, “Every Little Thing” captures the level of care subject Terry Masear so generously gives to rehabilitating the hummingbirds of Los Angeles. It’s clear from moment one how much work Writer/Director Sally Aitken put into creating the film based on Masear’s book “Fastest Things on Wings”–from the technical challenge of actually filming such small, lightning fast birds to editing together the footage to convey the stories contained in the material.
