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WHIRLYBIRD

By Matt YOKA

Documentary - Completed 2020

Zoey Tur revolutionized news media with her aerial reporting of Los Angeles – and in doing so, defined our recorded memory of the city. Tur's unmatched eye-in-the-sky video archive captures the spectacle of 1990s L.A. while revealing her own personal complexities.

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Sundance Film Festival 2020

U.S. Documentary Competition

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Matt YOKA
- Synopsis
- Flying high above Los Angeles in a whirling news helicopter, Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur (known then as Bob) captured some of the city’s most epic breaking news stories. The two recount the salacious details of their career as a husband-and-wife journalist team doing whatever it took to catch an unfolding story. Their camera captured the extreme adrenaline of the culture of live news and, as a result, the strain it took on their relationship—and, ultimately, a major life transition for Zoey. A wholly unique take on the story of Los Angeles told through stunning aerial footage and remarkable home videos, Whirlybird reframes many of the city’s pivotal moments of the 1990s, including the O. J. Simpson pursuit and the 1992 riots.

WHIRLYBIRD

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