Taking Flight Productions creates films that illuminate and celebrate scientific projects that rely heavily upon volunteers and make a positive change in our world. We aim to educate, raise awareness, and inspire viewers to get involved in scientific fieldwork.
-
Up North (in production) is a film about the HBP; a collaborative, multifaceted research program focused on factors that influence community ecology in a coastal lowland, arctic ecosystem in the face of climate change.
-
Full Circle is a film about the Great Gull Island Project, a monitoring study of Common and Roseate Terns nesting on Great Gull Island, which is in Long Island Sound off Orient Point on the North Fork of Long Island. Full Circle was officially released in November of 2022.
NOW AVAILABLE ON THE iTUNES STORE , PRIME VIDEO, GOOGLE PLAY, VIMEO, HOOPLA, PLEX, AND OTHER CABLE AND INTERNET PLATFORMS.
Full Circle is a film that celebrates one woman’s triumph in conservation: the Great Gull Island Project, Helen Hays’ 50-year quest to save two species of threatened seabirds. During her long term study, she vastly increased the numbers of nesting Roseate and Common Terns on a small, uninhabited island in Long Island Sound.
The film reveals the nesting season of the terns up close - arrival, courtship, hatching, feeding, fledging - and highlights the myriad of volunteers fostered & inspired by Hays over the decades; her extensive collaboration with scientists in Argentina, Brazil and the Azores; and also her remarkable & heartwarming connection with a small fishing village on the north coast of Brazil.
Hays’ dedication has helped complete an important circle, not only in conservation efforts, but also in connecting people from all over the globe… people who were once strangers, are now friends & colleagues working together for a common cause.