Feathered Cocaine

We updated and added new video links on the Ongoing Falcon Smuggling page.

We link to news reports about this man, Jeffrey Lendrum, who was caught in Birmingham Airport en route to Dubai smuggling 14 Peregrine Falcons eggs in socks, next to his body.  In August 2010, he was convicted to serve a 30 month sentence for his smuggling activities.  We link to footage of Mr. Lendrum abseiling from a helicopter to steal falcon eggs from a cliffside nest in Canada.  Also video links to falcon smuggling in Russia and Central Asia.  This is ongoing and in UK the wildlife laws were changed a few years ago to accommodate the falconers – it looks like the situation is reverting to “the bad old days” as a prominent UK falcon specialist put it in a news report about Jeffrey Lendrum’s falcon smuggling conviction.

First sentenced to 30 months jail time … but in February 2011, the appeal court judge Sir Christopher Holland said the original 30-month sentence was “excessive” and cut the jail time down to 18 months … business as usual for the career egg thief Jefrey Lendrum.

Please take a look at the trailer and other material on Feathered Cocaine.  Click on the links under the banner above, or on corresponding posts to the right. There is also a link for pre-ordering the DVD.

Thorkell Hardarson and Örn Marinó Arnarson, Feathered Cocaine directors and producers, are nominated for the DV Cultural Awards.  This is the 32nd year of the awards, making it the longest standing cultural award in Iceland.

The Selection Committee nominated the filmmakers, “for their
contribution to documentary filmmaking, and amongst other things for
Feathered Cocaine – a documentary that has received praise and has
been screened in many international film festivals in Europe and USA.
With their perseverance, they have given others the hope that dreams
can come true and Icelandic documentaries can be seen all over the
world.”

The results are determined by public vote.  Here is a link to the website, where you can vote. The results will be posted soon.

Feathered Cocaine received the Edda Awards for the best documentary of 2010.  The Edda Awards are the Icelandic Film and TV Academy awards for outstanding work in different categories.  This is the result of a vote of Academy members.

Thank you everyone, who voted for Feathered Cocaine.  Thanks to everyone, who stood by us and supported us in so many ways (spiritually, mentally, financially etc etc) for all those years it took us to finish the film.  This is your award as well.

Feathered Cocaine just received an EDDA nomination as the best documentary of the year 2010, at the Icelandic Film and TV Academy Awards Nomination Ceremony.  The awards will be announced on February 19th.

For more info please visit the Edda website.

Robert Koehler, film critic for Variety, saw Feathered Cocaine at Palm Springs International Film Festival.  Here is a link to the review.

Next chance to see Feathered Cocaine is at Big Sky Film Festival in Montana, February 12.  Here is a link to the festival’s page on FC.  Two screenings are coming up in April at Scandinavia House in NYC.

Feathered Cocaine is in the feature competition of Big Sky Festival in Montana.  Here is a link to Feathered Cocaine’s page of the festival.

Screening is on Saturday February 12 @ 7PM – Until then take a look at the trailer:

Feathered Cocaine is showing at Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 12 and 14. Here is a link to the website of the Festival.  Thorkell Hardarson, one of two directors will attend both screenings.  (update: Flights were canceled because of the weather, so Hardarson only attends the Friday screening – which is sold out by the way).

Until then, please take a look at the official trailer of Feathered Cocaine.