Whirlybird
TFI Suppport
Logline
Zoey Tur revolutionized news media with her aerial reporting of Los Angeles – and in doing so, defined our recorded memory of the city. Tur's unmatched eye-in-the-sky video archive captures the spectacle of 1990s L.A. while revealing her own personal complexities. This documentary film weaves intimate interviews with a stunning archive, illustrating a person as fascinating as the city she flew above.
Matt Yoka
DIRECTOR
Matt Yoka is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. He was a Collaborative Fellow at UnionDocs and in 2014 earned a master's degree from USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, where he was awarded a Pulitzer scholarship. Over the years, he has produced work for VICE, Vanity Fair, and The Awl. His directorial work in music videos has been praised by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Indiewire. His work has been featured at SXSW, Independent Film Week, Full Frame Festival, and The Exploratorium Museum. Recently, he produced Huang's World and directed/produced VICE Does America for the television network, VICELAND.