A Bird with a Knife explores the 50-year mystery surrounding thousands of cattle mutilations across the American West. Following a veteran investigator, an Oregon sheriff, and the ranchers whose cases they’re working to solve, this film is about folklore, faith, and the stories we tell when no absolute truth exists.
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Development
About the Filmmakers
Director/Producer/Editor
Cecilia Brown
Cecilia is a documentary director and editor based in Portland, OR. Recently, she co-directed and edited the award-winning documentary short Strong Grandma, a film about a 96-year old world champion powerlifter, which has played at over 20 film festivals including True/False and Doc10, and screened at the Paris Olympics. Cecilia was also the editor and writer on Walking Two Worlds, a film that followed Quannah Chasinghorse's meteoric rise in the modeling industry. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. Cecilia has had her work appear on HBO and This American Life, and received multiple awards for her work, including “Best Oregon Filmmaker.” In 2020 she graduated with a master’s in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Oregon.
Director/Producer/Cinematographer
Winslow Crane-Murdoch
Winslow is a documentary director and cinematographer based in Portland, OR. His debut feature film, The Quiet Epidemic, premiered in the HotDocs special presentations program in 2022. It went on to play at over 20 other festivals and received a theatrical release. His most recent film, Strong Grandma, which he co-directed and shot, has played at festivals around the world including True/False, Doc10 and Big Sky, and screened at the Paris Olympics. His work has appeared on HBO, TIME magazine, Outside TV, and the San Francisco MOMA.