PBS Premiere: August 18, 2009
Online: Aug. 19, 2009 – Aug. 18, 2013
Synopsis
The aggressive North American gray (or grey, when it gets to England) squirrel is threatening to displace the English red squirrel. Immortalized in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and much beloved by English nature lovers, the red is the island nation’s only native species of squirrel. But it is being driven to extinction by the invading gray’s combativeness and a squirrel pox it carries, against which the reds have no resistance. And so, with characteristic national pluck, a cross-section of English men and women — from lords to priests to artists to farmers — has risen up to turn back “the grey menace” and save the reds. Nutkin’s Last Stand is touching and often humorous. But species loss is no laughing matter, and the film rises to a haunting evocation of the stakes in the survival of a little red squirrel.
Nutkin's Last Stand is part of the POV Shorts Program on August 18, 2009.
(19 minutes)
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Film Information
Nutkin's Last Stand (18 min.)
Premiere Date: August 18, 2009
Streaming Dates: Aug. 19, 2009 - Aug. 18, 2013
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Filmmaker: Nicholas Berger Bio | Interview | Statement
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Filmmaker
I have always been attracted to documentary subjects that have such strong characters, visual coherence and metaphorical structures that they feel scripted. These subjects attract me because I am more interested in making morality tales than informational pieces.”
— Nicholas Berger, Filmmaker
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