It started when the police apprehended her on the Golden Gate Bridge. Gigi was waddling along in the southbound lane when patrol officers and a tow-truck driver scooped her up, put her in a squad car and sent the suffering bird to wildlife rehab. When a friend told Judy Irving, creator of the 2003 documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, about the Brown Pelican’s misfortune, Irving knew she had the opening of her next film. But the idea for Pelican Dreams hatched long before Gigi. Irving has loved the elegant yet clumsy birds since she dreamed of flying as a kid. She even thinks she looks like one, noting that she’s “tall and gawky too” and has a long face. “The start of it was just my own curiosity,” Irving says. The end result, which was partially funded by 蜜柚APP California, premiers in the San Francisco Bay area Oct. 24, and elsewhere in early November. Pelican DreamsTrailer from Shadow Distribution on Vimeo. In Pelican Dreams, Irving...