Best known for THE BLACK STALLION, director Carroll Ballard displays a wildly undervalued talent for making serious family pictures that achieve a DAYS OF HEAVEN level of grace. FLY AWAY HOME is based on the real-life story of sculptor Bill Lishman, who taught orphaned geese to learn migration patterns by training them to follow him in an ultralight aircraft. The fictionalized adaptation of Lishman’s autobiography stars Anna Paquin and Jeff Daniels as a reunited daughter and father whose relationship is repaired by guiding a flock of geese from Ontario to North Carolina. Sixty geese were raised and trained on the set of this deeply moving and often breathtaking portrait of humans attempting to do right by nature. FLY AWAY HOME amazed kids and adults alike, including the Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum, who wrote: "At a time when so few American movies believe in anything, it’s cheering and satisfying to see one that believes in geese." (Chicago Film Society)