Director: Siobhan Devine
Writers: Roslyn Muir, Roslyn Muir
Stars: Camille Sullivan, Gabrielle Rose, Garwin Sanford
Review by Gilbert Seah
THE BIRDWATCHER is a film where the characters are almost all women. They are strong women, normal women, trying to live out their lives, mistakes and all. But before males can dismiss the above lines as a feminist film to be avoided, Vancouver-based director Siobhan Devine’s female film, based on a script by Roslyn Muir is that rare female film with good strong and smart male characters.
A social worker, Saffron (Camille Sullivan), dying of cancer knows the state-sponsored fate that can await orphaned older children. She is driven by desperation and determination to find her mother and leave a family legacy to her temperamental teen daughter Lucy (Matreya Fedor) and enthusiastically precocious eight-year-old son Jonah (Jakob Davies). Online investigation turns up Birdy (Gabrielle Rose), a famous ornithologist (THE BIRDWATCHER of…
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