The man who shot 1,000 birds to paint them beautiful — and became America's first wildlife rockstar.
He was one of the most remarkable men in early America. A self-taught painter and ornithologist, he pursued a dream that made him famous in his lifetime and left a legacy in art and science that endures to this day. His portrait hangs in the White House and his statue stands over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History. Yet the story of John James Audubon has never been told on movie screens.
Cinematography
Those original watercolors deserve their own museum wing.
Production
Reinert spent decades chasing this story — the obsession matches its subject.
Director
Al Reinert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Audubon invented the 'life-size' bird portrait format by stitching together multiple elephant folio pages — the 1830s equivalent of IMAX.
Reinert, who directed this, also wrote Apollo 13 — he apparently has a thing for obsessive men chasing impossible dreams.
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