MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL - Described by The Hollywood Reporter as a "gently illuminating look at a brilliant maverick musician... captured with grace and delicacy," this multi-award winning concert documentary will screen its Minnesota Premiere with the MSP International Film Festival on April 28, 2012.

The film's director, Xan Aranda, will attend. Celebrated local musicians Martin Dosh and Jeremy Ylvisaker, who are heavily featured in the film, will join her.

Andrew Bird: Fever Year had its World Premiere at Lincoln Center last October as part of the prestigious New York Film Festival and will screen with seventeen international film festivals during April. Dozens of others are scheduled for the remainder of the year.

Filmed during culminating months of the acclaimed singer-songwriter's most rigorous year of touring, Andrew Bird crosses the December finish line in his hometown of Chicago - feverish and on crutches from an onstage injury. Is he suffering hazards from chasing the ghost of inspiration? Or merely transforming into a different kind of animal "perfectly adapted to the music hall?"

Fever Year is the first to capture Mr. Bird's precarious multi-instrumental looping technique and features live performances at Milwaukee's Pabst Theater with collaborators Martin Dosh, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Michael Lewis, and Annie Clark of St. Vincent.

Sound for these Pabst Theater concerts was meticulously recorded by local legend Tom Herbers. Portions of archival footage were provided by filmmaker Randy Kramer, also from Minneapolis.

Andrew Bird: Fever Year recently received the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Omaha Film Festival and the Audience Award from San Francisco's 20th Anniversary Noise Pop Film Festival, as well as strong reviews from Variety, RogerEbert.com, indieWIRE, and others.

Fever Year will only be released in festivals, by choice of Andrew Bird, who commissioned and owns the film.

This 80-minute film is the directorial debut from Xan Aranda, a long-time Bird collaborator and producer with Chicago's acclaimed documentary powerhouse Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams.)

She is now currently at work on her newest project, Mormons Make Movies, inspired by religious educational films her mother starred in while a student at Brigham Young University during the 1960s.

Andrew Bird: Fever Year premieres Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 7:00 PM. An encore for Sunday, April 29 is possible, but unconfirmed. Venue details at www.MSPFilmFest.org.

Visit www.FeverYear.com for more information.

CONTACT: Xan Aranda

MARCH 27, 2012 Xan@Kartemquin.com

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