Every Little Thing
Directed by Sally Aitken
Australia
2024
93 mins

Synopsis

Los Angeles resident Terry Masear nurses the many hummingbirds who fall foul of the environment. In nesting season, she takes hundreds of calls from people who’ve found traumatised mothers and chicks. Aitken (Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story, David Stratton: A Cinematic Life) follows Terry as she goes through her meticulous, time-consuming routine of feeding and grooming her fragile charges. In caring for hummingbirds, Terry finds a graceful way through her own traumas. The birds’ journey from injury to first flight is breathtakingly captured, revealing their oft-spunky personalities and resilient spirit. A compassionate and shimmering film to leave you humming.

Every Little Thing is not just a deeply affecting portrait u2013 it offers a vision of compassion as a way of life; Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, Every Little Thing works its way toward a deeply satisfying conclusion, a big celebration of tiny things and the special person who has made it all possible; Kate Erbland, IndieWire, The thrill of watching extraordinary footage of these shimmering, iridescent, physics-defying birds never grows old
Wendy Ide, Screen International

Tickets

Sun 23 February 2025, 11am
Alice Springs Cinema
  • Year
    2024
  • Classification
    All Ages
  • Country
    Australia
  • Language
    In English
  • Director
    Sally Aitken
  • Producer
    Bettina Dalton, Oli Harbottle, Anna Godas
  • Screenwriter
    Sally Aitken
  • Cinematographer
    Nathan Barlow, Dan Freene, Ann Prum
  • Editor
    Tania Nehme
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