'Chop Shop' director took pigeons under his wing
By Melissa Merli
Friday April 24, 2009
John Dixon
'Chop Shop' director Ramin Bahrani talks about his film during a panel discussion with Kim Voynar of Movie City News, left, and Lisa Rosman of Flavorpill online magazine at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign on Thursday.
CHAMPAIGN – Director Ramin Bahrani not only meticulously trained amateur actors for his neo-realist film, "Chop Shop," but also spent three weeks training pigeons for the final scene.
"I had a pigeon wrangler, and unfortunately it was me," he joked Thursday afternoon after his sophomore film was screened at Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre.
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