Film Review

Title: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

In this gentle documentary, filmmaker Judy Irving takes a look at Mark Bittner, who has befriended a flock of parrots in a San Francisco park. Bittner is a laid back, well spoken individual, who moved to the city in the early 1070s trying to make it as a musician. After a string of inconsequential jobs, he ended up caretaking a house that overlooked the park that was home to a flock of parrots.
No one knows how the parents came to call the park their home--perhaps they escaped while in transport to pet shops, or perhaps bored owners released pet birds into the wild. The birds prospered and bred in the wild, and Bittner would spend hours observing the parrots.
This is a thoughtful film, and a heartwarming look at both the birds and the man.