Summaries

An intimate look at incredible-and increasingly threatened-creatures that a third of the world's food supply depends upon.

WINGS OF LIFE launches into the stories of selected animal characters--a bat, a hummingbird, a butterfly, and a bee--stories that reveal the extraordinary importance of flowers and their pollinator partners. Though we primarily associate flowers with beauty, we often don't realize how essential they truly are--that without flowing plants and their winged messengers, and the foods they produce, we humans might not survive. Using special cinematic techniques, we explore the mystical intersection of the animal and plant worlds where life regenerates itself over and over again. It's this seductive dance that feeds the early, and today that dance is threatened.—Anonymous

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible-and increasingly threatened-creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, Wings of Life utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet.

Details

Keywords
  • flower
  • iguana
  • spiderweb
  • metamorphosis
  • wilcox arizona
Genres
  • Family
  • Documentary
  • News
Release date Apr 15, 2013
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) G
Countries of origin United States Mexico Panama
Official sites Official site
Language English
Filming locations Eurofresh Farms, Wilcox, Arizona, USA
Production companies Blacklight Films

Box office

Gross worldwide $192467

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 21m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital Datasat
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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