BY TONI GONZALES -January 30, 2020 The history of Los Angeles isn’t in a museum that you visit. No, it sits on thousands of videotapes in a U-haul storage unit. Or, it did until director Matt Yoka and his team came along to convert…
Whirlybird premieres at the Sundance Film Festival
News Up Now Gleidson Martins January 29, 2020
Sundance 2020: Coded Bias, Whirlybird, Be Water
by Brian Tallerico January 27, 2020 Married couple Marika Gerrard and Bob Tur were on the forefront of a breaking form of news journalism in Los Angeles when Tur bought a helicopter and started flying over the city of angels. Gerrard…
Sundance 2020 reviews: Day 4
Scott Renshaw on January 27, 2020 The central subject is the founders of L.A. News Service, a breaking news operation that began by chasing police scanner calls at street level in the 1980s, before taking to the skies with helicopter footage that…
Sundance Review: Whirlybird Explores the Adrenaline-Fueled Aerial News Game
Matt Cipolla January 28, 2020 It’s curious to see something like Whirlybird in a time when traditional television use is 1.) on the decline and 2.) retroactively looked as a precursor to today’s voyeurism. Director Matt Yoka frames the archive footage almost…
Sundance 2020 Review: The Sky’s the Limit in Matt Yoka’s Profound “Whirlybird”
JANUARY 26, 2020 11:15 PM by STEPHEN SAITO As Tur relates this fascinating personal epiphany, “Whirlybird” is bound to leave one about television news gathering as well, as both Zoey and Marika consider throughout the years how they’ve become desensitized…
The LGBTQ Films of Sundance 2020
by Daniel Reynolds Many of the year’s best films — LGBTQ or otherwise — gain momentum at the Sundance Film Festival, the annual cinematic gathering in Park City, Utah. This year’s queer offerings are the strongest yet. Below, see the…
Sundance ’20: Senior programmer David Courier on this year’s ones to watch
By Daniele Alcinii January 22, 2020 Were there any emerging documentary filmmakers whose work stood out to you? There are also a couple of standouts in the U.S. Doc Competition: Whirlybird is the first feature from Matt Yoka. That film is a period…
Sundance 2020: The LGBTQ Films We Can’t Wait to See in Park City
By Jude Dry -January 22, 2020 Here are the most exciting stories, documentaries and short films going to Sundance this year. “WhirlyBird” Matt Yoka’s documentary “Whirlybird” focuses on the life of transgender helicopter pilot and reporter Zoe Tur. Tur is a pioneer…
‘Whirlybird’ shows a filmmaker swinging for the fences at Sundance
Entertainment | January 23, 2020 JAY MEEHAN With adrenaline driving the narrative from both the air and the ground, the never-ending breaking news cycle and the competition to capture its most intriguing visual aspects for L.A.’s prime-time news make for a…