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Soaring above the chaotic spectacle of ‘80s and ‘90s Los Angeles, a young couple revolutionized breaking news with their brazen helicopter reporting. Culled from this news duo’s sprawling video archive is a poignant L.A. story of a family in turbulence hovering over a city unhinged.
Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard revolutionized news media with their aerial reporting of Los Angeles – and in doing so, defined our recorded memory of the city. Their unmatched eye-in-the-sky video archive captures the spectacle of 1990s L.A. while revealing their own personal complexities. This documentary film weaves intimate interviews with a stunning archive, illustrating a family as fascinating as the city they flew above.
Director
- Matt Yoka
Featuring
- Zoey Tur
- Marika Gerrard
- Katy Tur
- Jamie Tur
- Larry Welk
Story
- Story Supervisor: Barry Poltermann
- Story Consultant: Andrea James
Music
- Ty Segall
Cinematography
- Edward Herrera
Editorial
- Editor: Brian Palmer
- Co-Editor: Matt Yoka
- Additional editors: Erin Elders, Jack Price
Post-production
- Colorist: Luke Cahill
- Supervising Sound Editor: Jonathan Greber
- Re-recording Mixer: Pete Horner
Production team
- Producers: Diane Becker, Matt Yoka
- Executive Producers: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Josh Braun, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Rob Sharenow, Molly Thompson
- Co-Executive Producers: Melanie Miller
- Co-Producers: Steve Holmgren, Greg Lanesy, Matt Radecki
- Associate Producers: Carolyne Jurriaans, Christine Kecher
- Archive producer: Ben Piner
- Fishbowl Films
- Different by Design (in association with)
- Steady Orbits (in association with)
- Submarine Entertainment (in association with)
- World of Wonder (in association with)
- September Club (Editorial)
- Skywalker Sound (post-production sound services)
- SmithDehn India (production counsel)
- SmithDehn (production counsel)
World Premiere: Sundance 2020
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