Parrots of telegraph hill mark bittner biography

American film

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Directed by	Judy Irving
Produced by	Judy Irving
Starring	Mark Bittner Judy Irving (uncredited)
Cinematography	Judy Irving
Edited by	Judy Irving
Music by	Chris Michie
Distributed by	Shadow Distribution Inc.
Release dates	October&#;9,&#;&#;() (Austin Film Festival) February&#;11,&#;&#;() (United States)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Judy Irving.

It chronicles the relationship between Mark Bittner, an unemployed musician who lives rent-free in a cabin in the Telegraph Hill-neighborhood of San Francisco, and a flock of feral parrots that he feeds and looks after. Bittner also wrote a memoir about his experiences with the parrots, which shares the title of the documentary, but has the added subtitle: A