The Bird in My Backyard
Documentary Short, 20’ (2024)
Director, DoP, Editor | Ryan Wilkes
Featuring | Eric Pittman
Story Editor | Geordie Trifa
Story Editor | Niobe Thompson
Cinematographer | Jillian Wilkes
Original Score Composed by Jonathan Kawchuk
Sound Mix & Sound Effects Editing by David Parfit
Colourist | So Young Park
Produced in Association with CBC
Executive Producer for CBC | Lesley Birchard
Production Company | Trochilus Films
In an urban backyard on Canada’s West Coast, a window salesman has created a living laboratory for investigating hummingbird behaviour. The Bird in My Backyard follows citizen scientist, Eric Pittman, as he documents the journeys of two female Anna’s hummingbirds as they attempt to raise their young in his urban garden. It’s a story about the childlike curiosity in all of us, the wonders it can reveal and the doors it can open if we just lean in a bit closer.
