Woodpecker is a 2008 comedy film directed by Alex Karpovsky and starring Jon Hyrns.
[1] 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,[2] set in the small Arkansas town of Brinkley.
It incorporates faux-interviews[3] with Brinkley residents recounting their experiences with the mysterious bird.
[4] The score, composed by James Lavino, was performed by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood and Lee and Tyler Sargent of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.