Elder Birdsong

Elder Birdsong — Plot

Elder Birdsong is an animated musical short film in which 3 elderly birds: an ailing Owl, a physically challenged native Tui, and a couple of isolated migratory Korean Godwits sing about challenges of mobility, loneliness, and self-reliance. It is through their humour and dignity that these ageing birds demonstrate their resilience and provoke us to pick up the phone and get in touch with the elderly people in our lives. The film is a collaboration between public health scholars and filmmakers in New Zealand.

• Release date
• January 31, 2019
• Runtime
• 5 min
• Director
• Sarina Pearson

Elder Birdsong — Cast

Rima Te Wiata Tui

M

Margaret Baker Owl

C

Chunjoon Hwang Mr Godwit

Y

Yoon Young Kim Mrs Godwit

H

Heather Hickman Suzanne