Documentary - Adonis, The Story of a Black Vulture

A few months ago filmmaker Jonathan Sutak travelled to Arkansas for the annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Over an early breakfast at The Pancake Shop, an affable waitress named Jayne told him an incredible story of her friendship with an injured wild vulture. He was missing three toes, half a wing and remained grounded on a stretch of road just outside of town.

Coincidentally, film programmer Mara Bresnihan had a similar conversation with Jayne a few days earlier. When Mara and Jonathan met at the festival they exchanged details from their interactions and noted how they each couldn’t stop thinking about the bird...and Jonathan happened to have packed his camera.

What they documented that afternoon was only the beginning of a project both Mara and Jonathan couldn’t be more thrilled about continuing. They’ve found a quaint historical setting in Hot Springs, Arkansas along with a beloved heroine in Jayne Lakhani. And at the center of it all is a resilient wild bird that goes by Adonis.

This documentary is the wild story of two complex souls, one human and one feathered, wrapped into a interspecies friendship.

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Adonis, The Story of a Black Vulture (August 4, 2017 - Amazon Books)