Woodpecker (2008 film)

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| starring = Jon Hyrns

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Woodpecker is a 2008 comedy film directed by Alex Karpovsky and starring Jon Hyrns.{{IMDb title|0984039|Woodpecker}} The film follows Hyrns and his cohort, Wesley Yang, as they obsessively search the Arkansas bayou for proof that ivory-billed woodpecker is in fact not extinct.

Woodpecker is filmed in a docufiction style,{{cite web|url=http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/documentary/alex-karpovsky-woodpecker/ |title=WOODPECKER - True Lies, Lie Trues |publisher=www.hammertonail.com |accessdate=2009-12-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121121008/http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/documentary/alex-karpovsky-woodpecker/ |archivedate=November 21, 2009 }} set in the small Arkansas town of Brinkley. It incorporates faux-interviews{{cite news |url=https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117937694 |title=Woodpecker Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Woodpecker |publisher=www.variety.com |accessdate=2009-12-04 | first=Rob | last=Nelson | date=2008-07-10}} with Brinkley residents recounting their experiences with the mysterious bird.

Hyrns becomes increasingly erratic and comic in his attempts to locate the animal.