Karearea The Pine Falcon

This awardwinning tale tells the extraordinary story of how a population of wild New Zealand falcons have managed to survive in the face of fierce commercial forestry logging practices It also tells the story of two friends conservationist and director Sandy Crichton and 88yearold wildlife photographer George Chance Bound by their mutual love and admiration for the falcons Chances failing health and eyesight inspires the young Crichton to capture footage of the falcons as a tribute to the latters body of work from the 1970s What begins as an empathetic response to fulfil a friends final wish to see the magnificent birds on film ends up becoming the chance of a lifetime When Crichton begins filming the falcons he inadvertently becomes witness to new falcon behaviour capturing a turning point in the ecological evolution of the wild birds