100 Words Or Less (SXSW): Passenger Pigeons

We’re stuck smack dab in the middle of a recession. Sometimes we get so caught up in our happy-go-lucky lives that we forget such things. Films like Passenger Pigeons remind us what’s really going on out there. People accepting jobs they dislike, then retiring from the same position 40 years later. People losing their lives to unsafe work conditions. It’s tough out there even for the hardest working Americans. But more often than not we persevere. If Up in the Air happened in an Eastern Kentucky coal-mining town, and on a shoestring budget, this is what it would look like.

A Subtle Small-Town Slice-Of-Life Film