Wildlife Vaasa Festival_ BOOK of ENTRIES 2010

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Once again this year we at the Terranova Nature Centre of the Kvarken Area in Vaasa, Finland, have re-embarked on our fifth biennial journey around the world, to present our audiences a diverse and engaging arrays of nature and scientific programs which are produced during the last three years. This year’s Wildlife Vaasa Festival spotlights Nature and Wildlife in a very large diversity of settings within 210 films from 47 countries from around the world participating in our film competition. And that great score, thanks to the remarkable and creative work of hundreds of talented filmmakers, producers who are dedicated to document Nature on its own terms. As a result, our international competition’s 5 award categories have been inundated with films, therefore, it is with reluctance that only 6-12 films per category have made it to the final stage. However, there will be plenty of non-finalists that have been nominated for special awards handed by public and private organizations and institutions of Vaasa City and the Ostrobothnian region. As the final stage of the competition will take place during the festival dates, it will certainly be a very hard task for our international Jury Members to select the best films of this year’s festival. We all look forward to the Award ceremony on Sat. November 20th at Vaasa Library’s Drama Hall. Finally, all films participating in the festival this year will be available at the festival’s video library. Our screening venues: - Terranova Auditorium at the Ostrobothnian museum screening from: Wed. 17 Nov. to Sun.21

st Nov.

- Vaasa Library’s Drama Hall screening from: Wed. 17 Nov - to Sun. 21. Nov - Vaasa University’s Wolff Auditorium screening from: Wed. 17 Nov - to Fri. 19. Nov As in our previous festivals we have also included for a fourth time a Children and Youth Film Competition in 3 award categories. Such film competition aims to promote media education at schools on a local, regional, national and international level. This time, we are proudly presenting 47 nature films from 13 countries around the world. Almost half of these film projects are implemented in the Ostrobothnian region, thanks to the significant support we have received during the last year from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Ostrobotnian Council, Child & Nature Foundation and The City of Vaasa. Therefore, for all these films we are going to dedicate a whole festival day (Sunday Nov- 21st.) including presentations, screenings and of course the Award Ceremony of this competition. The venue will be Vaasa City Library’s Drama Hall and it’s free for everyone to join that event. During the festival days, several delegates from around the world will join us this year, including many awarded filmmakers from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Ethiopia, Senegal, India and finally a 10 VIP-delegation from China representing the City of Ya’an, China’s Film Archive, and YD-Communication which organizes every year the foremost China’s Animal & Nature Film Festival in the City of Ya’an, at the Sichuan Province which is the land of the Giant Pandas! Therefore, journalists, media publishers and Television broadcasters will have a unique opportunity to attend our festival, check out the newest productions which are competing in our festival this year and interview the filmmakers during our press conferences which will be kept on a daily basis. Finally, the festival winners of the International competition will be published on Saturday during the award ceremony and will be all screened during the last festival day on Sun.Nov. 21

st at Ostrobothnian museum’s Terranova Auditorium..

Highlighting the vital connections between land and water within our environment, it always makes up a special theme for our festival, especially after year 2006, when Kvarken Area was proclaimed by UNESCO one of its foremost World Natural Heritage Sites for its unique landscapes combined with land uplift phenomena. Therefore, an excursion to the Kvarken Area will be organized for our delegates on Sat Nov. 20

th In addition, a Vaasa City-

tour will be offered to our delegates and it will take place during Wed. Nov 17th Vaasa City’s delegates reception

will take place on Thu. Nov 18th

at the Governor’s House near by the Ostrobothnian museum. Finally, night parties will take place every night as well with live music and a great friendly atmosphere. As delegates and audience participation is the key to any festival’s success therefore, we cordially invite you to visit us to experience our festival, promote your work and your new film ideas, by making new valuable contacts and to get inspired from our international atmosphere here in Vaasa, the sunniest and one of Finland’s most international cities. Welcome to Wildlife Vaasa Festival in 2010 On behalf of the Festival Team Vesa Heinonen Ilias Missyris Wildlife Vaasa festival Wildlife Vaasa festival producer project manager, artistic director

WILDLIFE VAASA 2010 INTERNATIONAL NATURE FILM COMPETITION

LIST OF ENTRIES

Ref.nr

TITLE/ production year PRODUCTION COMP. COUNTRY min

1.

ON THE HIGHWAY WITH BUTTERFLIES

2008

Bayerischer Rundfunk, Telepool Udo Zimmermann, Angela Graas

Germany

52

2.

VARTIJAN VUODET

2008

Elja Herva

Finland

17

3.

THE EAST INDIAMAN

2008

Stavro Filmproduction AB

Sweden

99

4.

THE FOREST-REALM OF SHADOWS

2008

Nauflilusfilm /Jan Haft for NDR,arte and ORF

Germany

45

5.

THE FOREST-THE FIGHT FOR LIGHT

2008

Nauflilusfilm /Jan Haft for NDR,arte and ORF

Germany

45

6.

THE CRAYFISH IN A JAM JAR

2008

Nauflilusfilm /Jan Haft Bayerischer Rundfunk

Germany

43

7.

VATTAJAN DYYNI-LIFE

2009

Oy Soveri Wildlife Films Ltd

Meriter Oy

Finland

20

8.

THE GULF OF CORINTH

2008

Jiorgos Palamaris

Greece

43

9.

FARMING OUR FUTURE

2009

Vasile TV professionals

India

25

10.

BLUE REVOLUTION IN LAKSHDWEEP

2008

Vasile TV professionals

India

27

11.

STORIES OF LIFE ON EARTH-

1. FISH 2008

Lx Films-Luis Correia

Portugal

25

12.


2. ARTHROPODS 2008


Portugal

25

13.


3. AMPHIBIANS 2008


Portugal

25

14.


4. REPTILES 2008


Portugal

25

15.


5. BIRDS 2008


Portugal

25

16.


6. MAMMALS 2008


Portugal

25

17.

PERU-DOLPHINES IN DANGER

2009

GILDE-film & TV production

Uli Pförtner

Germany -Peru

53

18.

THE STRAIT, THE GATEWAY

TO THE WORLDS 2008

Articam Producciones Josep M Reixá

Spain

54

19.

NOURA 2009

Mohammad Tawfik

Irak

11

20.

MEN, MACHINES AND GODS

2008

Eduardo Duwe

Brazil

49

21.

TRACKING THEIR SILENT VOICES

2009

Stefan Geier

Ton und Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Germany

44

22.

UTOPIA 2008

Kaplan Producciones Lucho Iglesias, Alex Ruiz

Spain

78

23.

PEOPLE AND RUBBISH

2010

Mimbo Zil International Dan – Osa International

Nigeria Senegal

15

24.

DJEMO, GOAT AND BRUCELLOSIS

2009

Nisvet Hrustić

Bosnia and

Herzegovina

19

25.

A TREE AND A FLOWER

2010

Tomoko Oguchi

USA

6

26.

CATCHING

2009

Hannaleena Hauru

Finland/Argentina

12

27.

WALTER AND THE TIGERS

2009

Perry Productions

Jason Perryman/Walter Bernardis

United Kingdom

23

28.

VILDMARKSÅR

A YEAR IN THE ARCTIC WILD 2009

Svante Lysen

Sweden/ Greenland

58

29.

EMOTIONS IN WINTER

2009

Vigmantas Balevicius

Lithuania

4

30.

SAVING THE SLUMDOG DONKEYS

2009

Barron Productions

Angie Vos, Andrew Barron

United Kingdom

51

31.

JIJI GRASS

2008

Huang Jian

China

35

32.

THE VANISHING VILLAGE

2008

Zhao Yanying

China

54

33.

BIRD WHISPER

2008

Lv Bin

China

29

34.

BIRD'S NEST

2008

Ning Jingwu

China

90

35.

IN THE NAME OF THE WATER

2008

Jiang Xiaoyu

China

90

36.

THE RETURN OF GRAIN WORMS

2009

Zheng Yiguang

China

12

37.

THE LEGEND OF AMBER

2009

Lei Xiaoyan Lei, Chen Jinxia

China

13

38.

TIBETAN MASTIFF

2009

Chen Xuejiao

China

33

39.

RHAPSODY FOR PANDA BASI

2009

Guo Wei

China

25

40.

A- ERH-CHIN MOUNTAINS

2008

Bai Cheng

China

42

41.

PIKA AND GRASSLAND

2008

Pan Meng

China

10

42.

LOST HEAVEN

2008

Chen Xi

China

7

43.

NIGHT SEARCH FOR BLACK-HEADED GULL

2008

Pan Meng

China

5

44.

HISTORY COVERED BY THE DUST

2008

Zhao Huaiyan

China

29

45.

BLOODY FOX

2009

Selfmade Films

Jan de Ruiter & Niek Koppen Tijs Tinbergen & Jan Musch

The Netherlands

78

46.

WILD RUSSIA-THE URALS

2009

Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm for NDR, WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic Oliver Goetzl and Ivo Nörenberg (GULO FILM PRODUCTIONS), Jörn Röver.

Germany

45

47.

WILD RUSSIA-THE ADVENTURE 2009

Studio Hamburg DocLights

Naturfilm for NDR/ WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National

Geographic, Heiko de Groot, Jörn Röver

Germany

45

48.

VOIMAKONE 1

2008

Aranu Production House

Ari & Anu Häkkinen

Finland

55

49.

VOIMAKONE 2

2009

Aranu Production House

Ari & Anu Häkkinen

Finland

42

50.

HELP HAITI

2010

Cajuskii Holdings Inc Suarl

Kingsley Owen, Jacob Okpus

Senegal

5

51.

STARRY SKY

2009

Bernd Pröschold

Germany

61

52.

A KALAHARI TAIL

2008

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan

South Africa

52

53.

ANTARCTICA:

A JOURNEY INTO THE WHITE DESERT 2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan

South Africa

52

54.

ICEMAN:

THE LEWIS GORDON PUGH STORY

2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan

South Africa

52

55.

INTO THE DRAGON’S LAIR

2010

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan / Vyv Simson

South Africa

52

56.

GORILLAS:

JOURNEY FOR SURVIVAL 2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan

South Africa

52

57.

RAINBOW NATURE

2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan

South Africa

52

58.

OUT OF AFRICA

FROGS IN DEMAND 2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan / Jaco Loubser

South Africa

52

59.

THE SEARCH FOR

THE KNYSNA ELEPHANTS 2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan

South Africa

48

60.

NATURE OF LIFE

2009

NHU Africa

Sophie Vartan / Craig & Damon Foster

South Africa

52

61.

WATER COLOURS

Episode1: FISHEYE ILLUSION 2009

LIQUID MOTION FILM National Geographic

Fiji-UK-France

50

62.

WATER COLOURS

Episode2: A COLOURFUL

LANGUAGE, 2009


Fiji-UK-France

50

63.

WATER COLOURS

Episode3: A TOUCH OF FLUORESCENCE, 2009


Fiji-UK-France

50

64.

POPPY’S PROMISE

2010

Nautilusfilm GmbH, BR, arte

Jan Haft

Germany

44

65.

THE VOYNICH CODE

2009

ORF, arte

Klaus T. Steindl, Andreas Sulzer

Austria

45

66.

THE BIG PICTURE

2010

ORF, National Geographic

Paul Reddish

Austria

50

67.

BOHEMIA – A YEAR IN THE WETLANDS

2009

ScienceVision, ORF, BR

Michael Schlamberger, Jiri Petr

Austria

50

68.

MOUNT ST. HELENS-LIFE FROM ZERO

2010

Jörg Daniel Hissen, Heinz Leger

Interspot Film, ORF, ZDF,ARTE NOVA,WGBH, BMUKK

Austria

50

69.

WILD BALKANS

2009

ScienceVision, ORF, BR

Michael Schlamberger, Rolando Menardi

Austria

51

70.

RIFT VALLEY

Ep1: The Animal Kindom 2009

ORF, Cosmos Factory,NDR,WDR

ARTE, National Geographic Harald Pokieser, Walter Koehler

Austria

53

71.

RIFT VALLEY

Ep2: Soda Lakes and Inland Seas 2009


ARTE, National Geographic Harald Pokieser, Richard Jones

Austria

53

72.

RIFT VALLEY

Ep3: From Hell to the Holy Land 2009


ARTE, National Geographic Harald Pokieser, Paul Reddish

Austria

53

73.

LIGHTNING RELOADED 2010

ORF, ZDF, National Geographic Manfred Christ, Claus Achter

Austria

50

74.

THE LAST GIANTS-OCEANS IN DANGER 2009

Progress Film Daniele Grieco

Germany

90

75.

THE LAST LIONESS 2009

Aquavision TV Productions National Geographic

Bronwyn Watkins

South Africa

50

76.

PREDATOR BATTLEGROUND

2009

Aquavision TV Productions

National Geographic Nicole Annear

South Africa

50

77.

MOTHER WARTHOG

2009

Aquavision TV Productions

National Geographic Billi-Jean Parker

South Africa

50

78.

BUTTERFLIES GO

2010

AB Wildlife Films Productions

Josephine Hamming

The Netherlands

53

79.

THE SAGA ON THE PRIMEVAL FORESTS

2008

BoŜena and Jan Walencik TVP-Telewizja Polska

Poland

52

80.

WAJRAK ON THE TRAIL

2009

Andrzej Załęski TVP- Telewizja Polska

Poland

25

81.

MASTER OF THE WORLD

2010

Mob Productions

Enrico Giordano, Elodie Franques

France

90

82.

YAK! 2009

Bayerischer Rundfunk

Jan Kerckhoff, Udo Zimmermann

Germany / Nepal

44

83.

HUNTING THE HUNTERS 2009

Leykauf Film Angela Grass, Nicole Leykauf

Germany

88

84.

WINTER WARMER

2010

Lloyd Salomone, Jonathan Collicott

Canada

6

85.

ONE DEGREE MATTERS

2009

Ace and Ace Productions

Eskil Hardt

Denmark

57

86.

PÄIVÄ MERENKURKUSSA

(A DAY AT THE KVARKEN AREA) 2008

Vediamo tv & video production

Jorma Hakala, Roland Wiik

Finland

37

87.

TRACE OF GALA

2010

"Salname" documentary film studio

Shamil Aliyev, Boyukadga Mammadov

Azerbaijan

29

88.

GRAMMOS, ILLUSIONS

2009

Neaniko Plano

Nikos Theodosiou

Greece

21

89.

GIMME A HUG

2008

Protect the Sharks Foundation

Geert Droppers

Netherlands

13

90.

NATURE’S GREATEST DEFENDER

2009

The Really Interesting Picture Company, Ltd.

Tom Veltre, National Geographic

U.S.A

50

91.

SURVIVORS

2010

Zsolt Sasdi

Hungary

5

92.

CATFISH – MONSTER IN THE

LAKE? 2009

ARTE/ARD Florian Guthknecht Udo Zimmermann

Germany

43

93.

THE ICE SCULPTOR

2010

Imagofilm Lugano

Villi Herman, Alberto Meroni

Switzerland

40

94.

THE RICH FOREST

2010

Maor Lavi

Israel

5

95.

11 DEGREES

2009

Anna Ewert

Germany

Scotland, UK

8

96.

BARK 2010

Mark Larsson

USA

2

97.

ALLIENS OF THE AMAZON

Ep. 1: TREEHOPPERS 2009

Mona Lisa Production

Thierry Berrod,Quincy Russel

France

45

98.

ALLIENS OF THE AMAZON Ep. 2: SECRET ALLIANCE

2009


Thierry Berrod,Quincy Russel

France

45

99.

THE REVOLUTION OF THE THRONE

2008


Thierry Berrod, Quincy Russel

France

52

100.

HOLY DUNG

2008


Thierry Berrod, Quincy Russel

France

52

101.

BEES EXTINCTION, SOLVING THE MYSTERY

2008


Thierry Berrod, Natacha Calestreme

France

52

102.

SENTINEL ANIMALS-WARNING!

EARTHQUAKE 2008


Thierry Berrod, Kamel Kezardi

France

52

103.


TSUNAMI 2008



France

52

104.


AIR POLLUTION 2008



France

52

105.

THE SOUL OF WATER

2008

AV-Media Jämtlands Län AB

SVT.Sveriges Television Kurt Skoog

Sweden

57

106.

BAMA AND THE LOST GORILLAS

2010


Naturfilm, Jörn Röver Ernst Sasse & Nicky Lankester

Germany

45

107.

WILD JAPAN

2010


Naturfilm, Arte, ORF, National Geographic, Parthenon

Jörn Röver, Thoralf Grospitz & Jens Westphalen

Germany

90

108.

OCEAN STORIES – THE GIANT & THE

PHANTOM 2010


Naturfilm, Jörn Röver Heiko de Groot & Christina

Karliczek

Germany

50

109.

WILD RUSSIA – THE ARCTIC 2009

Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm, WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic

Jörn Röver, Uwe Anders

Germany

45

110.

WILD RUSSIA – THE FAR EAST (Ussuriland)

2009


Naturfilm, WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic,

Henry M. Mix, Jörn Röver

Germany

45

111.

WILD RUSSIA – KAMCHATKA

2009


Naturfilm, WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic

Christian Baumeister,Jörn Röver

Germany

45

112.

WILD RUSSIA – SIBERIA

2009


Naturfilm, Jörn Röver WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/

National Geographic, Tobias Mennle

Germany

45

113.

METAMORPHOSIS PAPILIONUM 2010

Yves Lanceau & Nathalie Truchet

France

5

114.

100 YEARS OF BIRD RINGING 2009

Szabolcs Mosonyi

Hungary

26

115.

RETURNING TO BHARATRUP 2010

Szabolcs Mosonyi

Hungary

36

116.

FLYING ASH SOLUTION

2010

Yash Communication

Jagdish Kulkarni

India

16

117.

NEIGHBOURS

2008

Siarhei Makhau

Belarus

3

118.

UNCERTAIN FATE

2010

Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit Joshi

India

23

119.

THE FUTURE AT WHAT PRICE?

2010

Mécanos Productions

Jean-Michel Rodrigo, David Martin

France

52

120.

FOREST POND

HOMEOF THERED-THROATED DIVER 2009

Blue Moment Media

Sami Lehtoniemi

Finland

28

121.

THE JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF LENA

2010

OY Vesilind

Riho Västrik, Vasili Sarana

Estonia

45

122.

OLD MAN AND THE MOOSE

2009

OY Vesilind Riho Västrik, Joosep Matjus

Estonia

36

123.

CROCKS OF KATUMA 2010

Nature Conservation Films

Evert van den Bos, Marjolein Duermeijer, Jochem van Rijs

The Netherlands

47

124.

CHEETAHS; AGAINST ALL ODDS

2008


Marjolein Duermeijer, Jochem van Rijs

The Netherlands

50

125.

WILD DOG ISLAND

2008


Evert van den Bos, Marjolein Duermeijer

The Netherlands

47

126.

SAVED BY THE LIONESS

2009


Evert van den Bos, Marjolein Duermeijer

The Netherlands

50

127.

RAW MATERIAL IS RAW MATERIAL 2010

Snöball Film AS

Hilde Holmesland & Pål Karlsen Nancy Sand

Norway

14

128.

RAVENS – RASCALS OF THE SKIES 2010

corvusFilm Heribert Schöller

Germany

52

129.

ESCAPING IN TO THE REAL LIFE

2008

Videosara

Arttu Kotisara

Finland

98

130.

THE KINGDOM OF THE BEE HUMMINGBIRD

2009

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)

Monika Seiffert, Cornelia Volk

Germany

60

131.

VRANA LAKE NATURE PARK

2010

Public Institution Vrana Lake

Nature Park Mihovil Gunjača, Boris Poljak

Croatia

29

132.

THE SECRET LIFE OF

…MY SMALL URBAN BACKYARD 2010

John Dunstan

USA

20

133.

EARTH 2009

Cubic Creaciones Audiovisuales Sl

Txena Uribarri-Marco Matteus

Spain

12

134.

PENGUIN ISLAND

Episode 1 – Love is in the Air 2010

360 Degree Films for

ABC/BBC/ARTE-France for National Geographic International

Sally Ingleton, Simon Target

Australia

30

135.

PENGUIN ISLAND

Episode 2 – Danger in the Penguin Colony 2010




Australia

30

136.

PENGUIN ISLAND

Episode 3 – Where have all the Fish Gone? 2010




Australia

30

137.

PENGUIN ISLAND

Episode 4 –A Heatwave hits the Colony 2010




Australia

30

138.

PENGUIN ISLAND

Episode 5 – Rocky Finds Love at Last 2010




Australia

30

139.

PENGUIN ISLAND

Episode 6 – Summer Ends on Phillip Island 2010




Australia

30

140.

MISSING VULTURES

2010

WWF-Pakistan

Muhammad Ali Ijaz

Pakistan

20

141.

BIVRÅKEN

(THE UNKNOWN HONEY BUZZARD) 2010

TV-Production Petri Merta ky

Petri Merta

Finland

27

142.

CHILIES TO THE RESCUE!

EASING THE HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT 2010

Marco Polo Film AG

Annette Scheurich, Herbert Ostwald

Germany

50

143.

DIPOLE 2009

Submarines foundation

Edward Snijders

The Netherlands

26

144.

GREAT LAKES OF EUROPE

2009

Production Center "Studio F"

Sergei Popov and Olga Podolskya

Russia

52

145.

SPRINGBRINGER:

Songs from the World of New Nature 2008

Synchronic Presentations

Jukka Eronen

Finland

20

146.

THE CORINTH CANAL

2009

Corinth Canal Ltd Co

George Palamaris

Greece

18

147.

ASOPOS RIVER Myth and Reality

2010

Asopos Follow up Committee

George Palamaris

Greece

13

148.

THE INVISIBLE BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER

2008

Filmjungle.eu

Marcell Toth, Attila David Molnar

Hungary

26

149.

WHEN THE POLES MELT

Antarctic Expedition 2010

Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH

RBB,ARTE Olaf Jacobs, Kai Voigtländer

Germany

52

150.

AT THE FISH-BROOKS OF KVARKEN

2010

Eero Murtomäki, Juhani Koivusaari, Ari Valkola

Finland

35

151.

THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE

2009

Chintis Lundgren

Estonia

7

152.

THE BLOOD OF THE ROSE

2009

Dragonfly Film & TV Productions Ltd./ WDR,C4i distribution

United Kingdom Germany

Japan

90

153.

SPINNING TOWARD GREEN

2008

GEM Productions

Gwendolyn Morgan

U.S.A

27

154.

BIRD WITHOUT BORDERS Black Faced Spoonbills

2009

Public Television Service Taiwan

PTS & IFA Co-Production Selena Tsao, Dean Johnson

Taiwan

52

155.

SPIRIT OF ORCHID ISLAND

2008

Public Television Service

Foundation-PTS Wen Cheng / Shuwa Chang

Nick Upton

Taiwan

53

156.

RAJANKÄYNTIÄ –FRONTIER LIFE

EP. 4: Hidden Paradise Of Russian Karelia 2009

Doc Art

Tiina Saario, Petteri Saario

Finland

30

157.

THE CORE

2009

Katia Roessel

France

16

158.

THE FIGHT FOR AMAZONIA

Raids in the Rainforest 2010

Filmquadrat.dok GmbH

Thomas Wartmann For Arte, SWR

Germany

52

159.

VIVA LA CRISIS

2009

Alexei Gubenco

Romania

3

FILMS PARTICIPATING OUT OF COMPETITION

1.

LOVERS OF ART

2010

KOUINTA PRODUCTIONS

Christos N. Karakasis

Greece, 45’

2.

JOS KAADUN (IF I FALL)

2007

Hanna Leena Hauru

Finland 13’

3.

UNDER MY GARDEN

2007

Lobecafilm

Andrea Lodoviccetti

Italy, 18’

WILDLIFE VAASA FESTIVAL 2010

CHILDREN & YOUTH FILM COMPETITION - LIST OF ENTRIES

Ref.nr TITLE/ production year/CATEGORY PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS COUNTRY min 1-

THE RICH FOREST

2010/YOUTH ANIMATION

Neri Bloomfield Academy of

Design and Education

Maor Lavi

Israel

5

2.

11 DEGREES

2009/YOUTH FILM

Edinburgh College of Arts Anna Ewert

Germany

Scotland, UK

8

3.

A TREE AND A FLOWER 2010/YOUTH ANIMATION

Tomoko Oguchi

USA

6

4.

MUUTTUVA SATAMA-(THE MOVING

HARBOUR) /YOUTH FILM 2009

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova

Vaasa Foreigners Office Koto Vaasa project

Ilias Missyris

Finland

28

5

VAELLUS RETKI RAIPPALUODOSSA (A RAMBLIN TRIP TO KVARKEN)

2009/CHILDREN FILM


School of Onkilahti 5A&5B Ilias Missyris

Finland

10

6-

VIHREÄ LIPPU TEEMA PÄIVÄ (A GREEN FLAG DAY) 2009/CHILDREN FILM

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova School of Huutoniemi

Ilias Missyris

Finland

22

7.

SUURPETOJA

(GREAT PREDATORS) 2009/CHILDREN FILM

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova School of Länsimetsä 4K & 4M

Ilias Missyris

Finland

37

8.

JÄTTILÄISTEN KUTSU (THE GIANT’S CALL)

2010/ CHILDREN ANIMATION


School of Alakylä 3A /Seinäjoki Ilias Missyris

Finland

8

9.

HATTIVATTIEN HYÖKKÄYS (THE ATTACK OF THE GHOSTS) 2010/ CHILDREN ANIMATION

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova School of Alakylä 4B /Seinäjoki

Ilias Missyris

Finland

4

10.

TAIKASAUVAN VALTA VAIHTUU (THE MAGIC WAND’S AUTHORITY-

CHANGE) 2010/ CHILDREN ANIMATION



Finland

6

11.

ELÄINTEN VUOSI

(THE ANIMALS YEAR) 2010/ CHILDREN ANIMATION


School of Alakylä 3B /Seinäjoki Ilias Missyris

Finland

9

12.

KOULUNKÄYNTI ENNEN JA NYT

(OUR SCHOOL; BEFORE AND NOW) 2010/ CHILDREN FILM



Finland

20

13.

KAVERILLE (TO FRIENDSHIP)

2010/ CHILDREN FILM

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova School of Alakylä 6A /Seinäjoki

Ilias Missyris

Finland

5

14.

KOTAKIVEN ARVOITUS

(THE KOTA-STONE MYSTERY) 2010/CHILDREN ANIMATION


School of Alakylä 5B /Seinäjoki Ilias Missyris

Finland

11

15.

METSÄNHALTIOIDEN OPETUS (A LESSON FROM THE FOREST RULERS)

2010 CHILDREN FILM

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova School of Alakylä 5B,2A /Seinäjoki

Ilias Missyris

Finland

9

16.

METSÄN RAUHA VAARASSA (FOREST PEACE IN DANGER) 2010/CHILDREN ANIMATION

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova School of Alakylä 1B /Seinäjoki

Ilias Missyris

Finland

11

17.

HONEYMOON

2010 / YOUTH FILMS


Vaasa Foreigners Office Ilias Missyris

Finland

30

18.

NÄR ORRMOAN STEG UR HAVET THE KORSNÄS MOVIE 2010 /CHILDREN FILM

Ostrobothnian museum-Terranova Korsnäs kby skola

Ilias Missyris

Finland

22

19.

BACKWATER 2009/ YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the

Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC)

SunChild Eco-Club of

Artashavan Saghmosavan

students, Ruben Khachatryan

Armenia

10

20.

GYUMRI: TWO STORIES 2009/ YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the


SunChild Eco-Club of Gyumri

students,

Ruben Khachatryan

Armenia

18

21.

HEY… 2009/YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the


SunChild Eco-Club of Garni students,

Ruben Khachatryan

Armenia

15

22.

THE HOUSE, THE RIVER, THE MOUNTAIN 2009/YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and

Cultural Assets (FPWC)

SunChild Eco-Club of Dilijan


Armenia

13

23.

LOST RIVER 2009/YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the


SunChild Eco-Club of

Yeghegnadzor students Ruben Khachatryan

Armenia

10

24.

MY RAVINE 2009/ YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the


SunChild Eco-Club of Sisian


Armenia

10

25.

THE SUNSET OF ASTRAGALUS 2009/ YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the


SunChild Eco-Club of Urtsadzor students, Ruben Khachatryan

Armenia

7

26.

THE WAY OF WATER 2009/ YOUTH FILMS

Foundation for the


SunChild Eco-Club of Noratus


Armenia

20

27.

CERRATTEPE

2010/ YOUTH FILMS

SUNY Fredonia, Atlantik Films

Ceren Cebeci

Turkey

19

28.

NOW THERE IS, NOW THERE ISN’T

2010/ YOUTH FILMS

SUNY Fredonia, Atlantik Films Cihat Bilen

Turkey

19

29.

SIRYA 2010/ YOUTH FILMS

SUNY Fredonia, Atlantik Films

Cengiz Duz

Turkey

19

30.

SEIKKAILU KYRKÖSJÄRVELLÄ (ADVENTURE AT LAKE KYRKÖSJÄRVI)

2010/ CHILDREN

Pentti Syrjälä

School of Alakylä 6B

Finland

57

31.

BLUE MOON

2010 CHILDREN ANIMATION

Iiris Kakkuri

Finland

3

32.

THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE

2009/ ANIMATION

Chintis Lundgren

Estonia

7

33.

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

2009

EPAS-School of Aspropyrgos

Greece

4

34.

WINDOW ON NATURE

2009

Lyceum of Karditsa

Greece

5

35.

TAKE A LEAP FASTER THAN DECAY

2010

Highschool of Preveza

Greece

5

36.

THE MERMAID AND THE ICESTAR

THAT FELL FROM THE SKY 2009

Camera Zizanio/ Nikos Repoulos

Greece

8

37.

ALBERI/TREES


Roncaglia primary school

Raffaella Traniello

Italy

6

38.

RICICLA!


Roncaglia primary school

Raffaella Traniello

Italy

5

39.

SHARK STORY


Pikku kasarmi kindergarden&Tokai

University FuzokuHonda Benny Smulter & Kimie Tanaka

Finland/Japan

2

40.

THE TREE OF RECYCLING

2010

Special School of Ilion Stathis Markelos

Greece

5

41.

TREE, No. 73

2010

Beitou Elementary School

Hui Chuan, Chiang

Taiwan

10

42.

DO YOU RECIRCLE? 2010

IESO Cuatro Villas

4o ESO class Enrique Freire, Fatima Zapata,

Calurano,Manuel Martin

Spain

3

43.

A STRANGE REALITY

A PLATE IN TOUR IN THE CITY 2009

Citta di Torino

School and Workshop Immagine 2 ITER

Italy

3

44.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAN

WITH THE MOUSTACHE 2008

Citta di Torino


Italy

3

45.

ECOCITY AND THE RUBBISH MONSTER

2008

Citta di Torino


Italy

4

46.

A CARTOON TO EAT

2008

Citta di Torino


Italy

3

47.

THE FAMILY WITHOUT FEET

2009

Citta di Torino


Italy

3

WILDLIFE VAASA 2010 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AWARD CRITERIA

1. Association To Wildlife= A wildlife film’s center of focus should concentrate on its subjects that of

flora and fauna. However, a wildlife film because of its diversity may also include the following criteria:

(a) A dual role meaning an interaction between the presenter/actor and the subject/s to

present a specific argument or point of view.

(b) Flora and fauna conservation due to the endangerment or loss of a species.

(c) An environmental message as a result of human development and interference or by

natural catastrophe.

(d) A scientific film depicting new innovation towards conservation and environmental issues

2. Technical Application = Aural/visual compilation, presentation and creative talent.

3. Authenticity = Claims made by the filmmaker/s in relation to the origin of the compiled footage.

4. Qualification = According to festival ruling, only entries produced after 2008 may qualify.

AWARD PRIZES/ CATEGORY 1. NATURAL HISTORY Winner's prize: trophy + diploma Second runner up: diploma Third runner up: diploma 2. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Winner's prize: trophy + diploma Second runner up: diploma Third runner up: diploma 3. BEST NORDIC FILM Winner's prize: trophy + diploma BEST FINNISH FILM Winner's prize: trophy + diploma 4. BEST LOW-BUDGET Winner's prize: trophy + diploma BEST SHORT Winner's prize : trophy + diploma 5. BEST SCIENCE FILM Winner's prize: trophy + diploma Second runner up: diploma Third runner up: diploma

THE JURY’S SPECIAL AWARD: Winner's prize: trophy + diploma WILDLIFE VAASA 2010: JURIES INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: (PRELIMINARY SELECTION, SPECIAL AWARD NOMINATIONS)

Vesa Heinonen, Ilias Missyris, Sonja Österholm-Granqvist, Fredrick Carlström CHILDREN & YOUTH COMPETITON: (PRELIMINARY SELECTION, SELECTION OF THE WINNERS) Groups of children and young people Child and Nature Foundation Finnish Cultural Foundation Council of Ostrobothnia

INTERNATIONAL JURY MEMBERS MR. NIK J. VAN-ECKMANN (South Africa-Finland) Chairman

More than 30 years experience in film and television production worldwide. Companies include: ORF Austria - Malaysian Television - ZDF Germany - Channel 9 Peru - NBC New York - RTL France -National Geographic Television and the BBC. His first discipline is in Sound Design but has expertise as cameraman - editor - writer - producer and director; other skills include: actor and narrator for television and the music industry. He has university degrees in Science, Education and the Arts and is currently researching, designing and developing new techniques for recording wildlife sound. This wealth of professional and academic knowledge means that he is in great demand as a lecturer, teaching the very young through to university level at establishments in Finland, Sweden,

India and the UK. He has also been an important partner of our festival and a member of the International jury from 2002.

MRS. ULRIKE REETZ (Germany)

Living in Hamburg she did her jobs as a graphic designer, a teacher, a median expert on a scientific experience about the use of films in schools. Afterwards she joined her husband who was an independent documentary filmmaker. Their subjects: people and history. Her job: production management. Later on she switched over to various TV production companies such as Studio Hamburg. At least she succeeded in becoming a permanent part of the NDR Naturfilm team. As a freelancer now she is still responsible for entries in Wildlife Film Festivals worldwide. In 2008 she enjoyed festivals personally – in Poland (WAGA Brothers) and in Estonia (Matsalu). Moreover she was asked to help the Jury of GreenScreen Nature Film Festival to select short films for the audience

MS. OKSANA LAZAREVA (Russia) Representing the new generation of filmmakers, Oksana studied five years at St. Petersburg-State University of Culture and Arts and after graduation she has been working as a wildlife and environmental conservation film producer, editor and administrator from 2001(Documentary Film Studio "FILM-TRANZIT"). Since 2005 she has been working at Studio "Nikola Film" editing full length and fictions movies. Since 2008 she works as film editor - freelancer with different film studios (Svarog-Afterburners Films (joint American-Russian film production company), "Pushkin Pictures", ''Green Film" and others. She has been participating and attending our festival from 2004.

MR. JUHANI KOIVUSAARI (Finland) Phil.lic.(zoology), worked as a special researcher / for West Finland’s Regional Environment Centre in Vaasa. An old-school biologist who has devoted his work and his life to the development of the conservation and the studying of the white-tailed sea-eagle. He has published a lot of research material in his fields of speciality and he has written a book as well. In addition, he has produced a TV film about white-tailed sea eagles together with his fellow researchers and filmmakers from Vaasa making nature films in the Kvarken area. He has been granted scholarships in the study of environmental toxins threatening the life of the white-tailed sea eagles. He has been associated with Wildlife Vaasa festival from the time of its conception in 2001. Also a self-made humorist?

Wildlife Vaasa Festival 2010V Terranova International Nature Film Festival

LIST OF FINALISTS:CATEGORY 1: NATURAL HISTORY

4. THE FOREST-REALM OF SHADOWS 2008 Nauflilusfilm /Jan Haft for NDR, Arte and ORF, Germany, 45’

12. STORIES OF LIFE ON EARTH- Episode 2. ARTHROPODS, 2008 Lx Films-Luis Correia, Portugal, 25’

39. RHAPSODY FOR PANDA BASI, 2009 Guo Wei, China, 25’

46. WILD RUSSIA-THE URALS, 2009 Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm, Oliver Goetzl and Ivo Nörenberg, Jörn Röver, Germany 45’

55. INTO THE DRAGON’S LAIR, 2010 NHU Africa, Sophie Vartan / Vyv Simson, South Africa, 52’

63. WATER COLOURS Episode3: A TOUCH OF FLUORESCENCE, 2009 LIQUID MOTION FILM, National Geographic Fiji-UK-France, 50’

69. WILD BALKANS, 2009 ScienceVision, ORF, BR Michael Schlamberger, Rolando Menardi Austria, 51’

76. PREDITOR BATTLEGROUND, 2009 Aquavision TV Productions, National Geographic, Nicole Annear South Africa, 50’

92. CATFISH – MONSTER IN THE LAKE? 2009, ARTE/ARD, Florian Guthknecht, Udo Zimmermann Germany 43’

107. WILD JAPAN, 2010 Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm,Arte, ORF, National Geographic, Parthenon Jörn Röver, Thoralf Grospitz & Jens Westphalen Germany, 90’

123. CROCS OF KATUMA, 2010 Nature Conservation Films, Evert van den Bos, Marjolein Duermeijer, Jochem van Rijs The Netherlands 47’

134. PENGUIN ISLAND: Ep. 1 – LOVE IS IN THE AIR, 2010, 360 Degree Films for: ABC/BBC/ARTE-France National Geographic International, Sally Ingleton, Simon Target Australia 30’

CATEGORY 2: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

17. PERU-DOLPHINES IN DANGER 2009 GILDE-film & TV production Uli Pförtner Germany -Peru 53’

56. GORILLAS: JOURNEY FOR SURVIVAL 2009 NHU Africa, Sophie Vartan South Africa, 52’

60. NATURE OF LIFE 2009 NHU Africa, Sophie Vartan / Craig & Damon Foster South Africa, 52’

74. THE LAST GIANTS-OCEANS IN DANGER 2009 Progress Film Daniele Grieco Germany 90’

90. NATURE’S GREATEST DEFENDER 2009 The Really Interesting Picture Company, Ltd. Tom Veltre, National Geographic U.S.A 50’

108. OCEAN STORIES – THE GIANT & THE PHANTOM 2010 Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm, Jörn Röver Heiko de Groot & Christina Karliczek Germany 50’

130. THE KINGDOM OF THE BEE HUMMINGBIRD 2009 Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) Monika Seiffert, Cornelia Volk Germany 60’

131. VRANA LAKE NATURE PARK 2010 Public Institution Vrana Lake Nature Park Mihovil Gunjača, Boris Poljak, Croatia 29’

142. CHILIES TO THE RESCUE! EASING THE HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT 2010 Marco Polo Film AG Annette Scheurich, Herbert Ostwald Germany 50’

149. WHEN THE POLES MELT: ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 2010 Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH RBB,ARTE, Olaf Jacobs, Kai Voigtländer Germany 52’

152. THE BLOOD OF THE ROSE 2009 Dragonfly Film & TV Productions Ltd. for: WDR,C4i distribution United Kingdom/Germany/Japan 90’

158. THE FIGHT FOR AMAZONIA Raids in the Rainforest 2010 Filmquadrat.dok GmbH Thomas Wartmann for: Arte, SWR Germany 52’

CATEGORY 3.1 FINNISH / FINNISH FINALISTS

48. VOIMAKONE 1 (Power Engine) 2008 Aranu Production House Ari & Anu Häkkinen Finland 55’

86. PÄIVÄ MERENKURKUSSA (A day at the Kvarken) 2008, Vediamo tv & video production Jorma Hakala, Roland Wiik Finland 37’

120. FOREST POND-HOME OF THE RED-THROATED DIVER 2009 Blue Moment Media Sami Lehtoniemi, Finland 28’

141. BIVRÅKEN (THE UNKNOWN HONEY BUZZARD) 2010 TV-Production Petri Merta ky Finland 27’

150. AT THE FISH-BROOKS OF KVARKEN 2010 Eero Murtomäki, Juhani Koivusaari, Ari Valkola Finland 35’

156. RAJANKÄYNTIÄ –FRONTIER LIFE EPISODE 4: HIDDEN PARADISE OF RUSSIAN KARELIA 2009 Doc Art Tiina Saario, Petteri Saario Finland 30’

CATEGORY 3.2 NORDIC NORDIC FINALISTS

3. THE EAST INDIAMAN 2008 Stavro Filmproduction AB Sweden 99’

7. VATTAJAN DYYNI-LIFE 2009 Oy Soveri Wildlife Films Ltd, Meriter Oy Finland 20’

28. VILDMARKSÅR-A YEAR IN THE ARCTIC WILD, 2009 Svante Lysen, Sweden/Greenland 58’

85. ONE DEGREE MATTERS 2009 Ace and Ace Productions, Eskil Hardt Denmark 57’

105. THE SOUL OF WATER 2008 AV-Media Jämtlands Län AB SVT Sveriges Television, Kurt Skoog, Sweden 57’

127. RAW MATERIAL IS RAW MATERIAL, 2010 The LOOP Foundation, Snöball Film AS Hilde Holmesland & Pål Karlsen, Nancy Sand Norway 14’

CATEGORY 4.1: LOW BUDGET

8. THE GULF OF CORINTH, 2008, Jiorgos Palamaris, Greece 43’

9. FARMING OUR FUTURE, 2009 Vasile TV professionals India 25’

27. WALTER AND THE TIGERS, 2009 Perry Productions Jason Perryman/Walter Bernardis United Kingdom 23’

88. GRAMMOS, ILLUSIONS, 2009 Neaniko Plano, Nikos Theodosiou Greece 21’

118. UNCERTAIN FATE, 2010 Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit Joshi India 23’

132. THE SECRET LIFE OF…MY SMALL URBAN BACKYARD, 2010 John Dunstan U.S.A 20’

143. DIPOLE, 2009 Submarines foundation, Edward Snijders The Netherlands 26’

CATEGORY 4.2: SHORT

23. PEOPLE AND RUBBISH, 2010 Mimbo Zil International/Dan – Osa International Nigeria/Senegal 15’

29. EMOTIONS IN WINTER, 2009 Vigmantas Balevicius Lithuania 4’

84. WINTER WARMER, 2010 Lloyd Salomone, Jonathan Collicott Canada 6’

89. GIMME A HUG, 2008 Protect the Sharks Foundation Geert Droppers The Netherlands 13’

91. SURVIVORS, 2010 Zsolt Sasdi Hungary 5’

113. METAMORPHOSIS PAPILIONUM, 2010 Yves Lanceau & Nathalie Truchet France 5’

117. NEIGHBOURS, 2008 Siarhei Makhau Belarus 3’

159. VIVA LA CRISIS!, 2009 Alexei Gubenco Romania 3’

CATEGORY 5: SCIENCE FILMS

21. TRACKING THEIR SILENT VOICES 2009 Stefan Geier, Ton und Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany 44’

54. ICEMAN: THE LEWIS GORDON PUGH STORY 2009 NHU Africa, Sophie Vartan South Africa 52’

66. THE BIG PICTURE 2010 ORF, National Geographic Paul Reddish Austria 50’

73. LIGHTNING RELOADED 2010 ORF, ZDF, National Geographic Manfred Christ, Claus Achter Austria 50’

97. ALLIENS OF THE AMAZON §Ep. 1: TREEHOPPERS 2009 Mona Lisa Production Thierry Berrod,Quincy Russel France 45’

103. SENTINEL ANIMALS-WARNING! TSUNAMI 2008 Mona Lisa Production Thierry Berrod, Kamel Kezardi France 52’

Wildlife Vaasa 2010

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On the Highway of Butterflies The journey of the monarchs

Country: Germany Language: English Length: 52’ Completion date: 2008

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Angela GraasAddress: Floriansmühlstr. 60, 80939 München, GermanyPhone: +49-89-3806-5155Mobile:E-mail: [email protected]

Production Organization(s): ARD, Bavarian TelevisionProducer: Udo ZimmerannDirector: Angela GraasPhotographer: Christoph CastorPicture Editor: Dirk GöhlerSound: Bernd SchreinerScript Writer: Angela GraasMusic Composer: Paul WutheDistributor: Telepool

Award category: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION FILMS

Synopsis:

The ”Souls of the Dead“ are back again, arriving in time for All Saints - ‘El Dia de los Muertos’-, like every year. So the traditional believe of the indigenous people in Michoacán in Mexico. Orange butterfly clouds dance around the indigenous making their pilgrimage to the cemetery. The Monarch butterflies have come to spend the winter here. It is many millions of them. They just have been through a long and dangerous journey. On the highway of winds they flew 3,000 miles straight across the USA. The story of their journey starts two months ago at the Great Lakes. On the road the American natural history writer and Monarch-scientist Robert Michael Pyle (Chasing Monarchs) is following their way to the South. But are the “Souls of the Dead” really immortal?

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Vartijan VuodetThe Ranger’s Years

Country: Finland Language: Finnish Length: 37 min Completion date: 2008

Synopsis:

The film tells about the Krunni conservation area’s wild birds, its nature as well as about the rangers life. Situated in the middle of Bothnia at Kemi and Oulu, Krunni has a long history since 1936, including volunteer work by a war veteran as a ranger for over 50 years. The material of this film has been shot using 16mm black and white and color film as well as 35mm positive film for still pictures between year1970 to 2001. The story in Finnish has been told mainly by the ranger Erkki Reinilä and it was recorded in 1987.

Production Organization(s): -Producer: Elja HervaDirector: Elja HervaPhotographer: Elja HervaPicture Editor: Elja HervaSound: Elja HervaScript Writer: Elja HervaNarrator: Erkki Reinilä, Elja HervaEffects Editor: -Scientific Adviser: -Music Composer: Markus Herva on the basis of Erkki Reinilä’s melody

Award category: FINNISH

Elja HervaAddress:Pääskystie 18, 90650 Oulu, FinlandPhone: +358 8 53301005Mobile: +358 40 7521352E-mail: [email protected]

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The East Indiaman

Country: Sweden Language: Subtitled: EnglishLength: 99’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis:Come aboard the East Indiaman Gotheborg on a historic sailing adventure. Over the big blue of the Atlantic and the “Roaring forties” of the Indian Ocean, through the pirate waters of the Far East and the intolerable heat of the Chinese Sea, until the spectacular welcome in China.

On board the ship, far beyond modern society, the crew members expercience the journey of their lives. Will rig and hull manage with the enormous pressures from strong wind, waves and the birning sea?

Production Organization(s): Stavro Filmproduktion ABProducer: Patrik AxénDirector: Peder Jacobsson, Patrik Axén, Johan LöstedtPhotographer: Peder JacobssonPicture Editor: Johan LöstedtScript Writer: Peder Jacobsson, Patrik Axén, Johan LöstedtSound: Robert SörlingComposer: Immanu ElDistributor: Stavro Filmproduktion AB

Award category: NORDIC

Patrik AxénAddress: Övre Buråsliden 10, 412 64 Göteborg, SwedenPhone: +46 31407579Mobile: +46 704974747E-mail: [email protected]

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The Forest Part 1 – Realm of Shadows

Country: Germany Language: EnglishLength: 44’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

The Central European Forest – a secret place whose inhabitants live clandestine lives. How do innumerable organisms, large and small, live together? Are our forests truly natural or the result of man’s intervention? Do they have anything in common with untouched wilderness? The denser the forest, the darker it becomes down on the ground. Only a few animals and plants have adapted to this lack of sunlight. Yet our forests were not always like this. Before man began to redesign earth as he saw fit, woods were more open, like parks…

Production Organization(s): nautilusfilm GmbH, BR,Producers: Tom Synnatzschke for NDR-Studio Hamburg and Andrea Gastgeb for ORFExecutive Producer: Jörn RöverDirector: Jan HaftPhotographers: Jan Haft, Kay ZiesenhennePicture Editor: Robert Morgenstern, Kathrin SchröderScript Writer: Jan Haft, Gerwig LawitzkySound: Adrian Langenbach, Felix PustalNarrator: David KehoeScientific Advisors: Gerwig LawitzkyComposer: Joerg Magnus PfeilProduction Manager Melanie HaftOriginal Format: HD CamDistributor: nautilusfilm GmbH/ Melanie HaftSubmitted by: nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie Haft

Award category: Natural History

nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie HaftAddress: Postfach 1314, D - 84403 Dorfen, GermanyTel.: (+49) 08081 / 959 661Fax: (+49) 08081 / 959 662Mob:(+49) 0179 / 788 [email protected]

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The Forest Part 2 – The Fight for Light


Synopsis

There was plenty of light throughout the year. The landscape architects in those days were large herds of herbivores. It was their phenomenal appetite that had much to do with shaping forests. But over the last 30,000 years, man has eradicated almost all larger mammals. Several members of the elephant family, bison, wild horses, rhinoceros and giant deer disappeared…On the plains of Central Europe, it would otherwise be much like the Serengeti in Africa.The uncultivated forests, where herbivores roam freely, are a thing of the past. Yet experiments in conservation areas show that many larger mammals can still coexist with man and one fact that is finally being acknowledged is that a truly natural wood needs a play of forces that ensure that light and warmth are allowed to penetrate. Only then will the habitat become as rich in life as it once was.

Production Organization(s): nautilusfilm GmbH, BR,Producers: Tom Synnatzschke for NDR-Studio Hamburg and Andrea Gastgeb for ORFExecutive Producer: Jörn RöverDirector: Jan HaftPhotographers: Jan Haft, Kay ZiesenhennePicture Editor: Robert Morgenstern, Kathrin SchröderScript Writer: Jan Haft, Gerwig LawitzkySound: Adrian Langenbach, Felix PustalNarrator: David KehoeScientific Advisors: Gerwig LawitzkyComposer: Joerg Magnus PfeilProduction Manager Melanie HaftOriginal Format: HD CamDistributor: nautilusfilm GmbH/ Melanie HaftSubmitted by: nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie Haft


nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie HaftAdress: Postfach 1314, D - 84403 Dorfen, GermanyTel.: (+49) 08081 / 959 661Fax: (+49) 08081 / 959 662Mob:(+49) 0179 / 788 [email protected]

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The Crayfish in the Jam Jar


Synopsis The 76 km long valley of the river Isen was formed by the glaciers of the last Ice Age. Small alluvial forests flank the river and its banks, which are home to many remarkable animals and plants; rare fishes such as the rifle minnow, the undermouth and the loach can be found in the Isen´s clear waters. The kingfisher loves to hunt here; the red-backed shrike builds his nest in the hedges that grow on the rivers sunny slopes and birds like bluethroats, sedge warblers, green sandpipers and an especially droll bird whose song compares to a creaky sewing machine – the river warbler – can still be found here. This Bavarian idyll is under pressure from an unexpected side. The idea of renewable energy is starting to change the countryside, more and more biomass power plants are built and they need fuel. To produce this fuel meadows are turned into corn- or rapeseed fields. Farmers are slowly becoming energy suppliers. Does this mean that the biodiversity of the Isen valley is in danger, endangered by eco-friendly energies? What does the future hold for our valley, what will the landscape along the Isen look like?

Production Organization(s): nautilusfilm GmbH, BR,Production Manager Melanie HaftProducer: Jan HaftExecutive Producer: Udo A. ZimmermannDirector: Jan HaftPhotographers: Jan Haft, Kay Ziesenhenne, Rolf Steinmann, Picture Editor: Kathrin SchröderScript Writer: Jan HaftSound: Adrian LangenbachNarrator: David IngramComposer: Joerg Magnus PfeilOriginal Format: HD CamDistributor: nautilusfilm GmbH/ Melanie HaftSubmitted by: nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie Haft

Award category: Natural History, Environmental Conservation

nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie HaftAdress: Postfach 1314, D - 84403 Dorfen, GermanyTel.: (+49) 08081 / 959 661Fax: (+49) 08081 / 959 662Mob:(+49) 0179 / 788 [email protected]

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Vattajan dyyni -Life

Country: FinlandLanguage: EnglishLength: 20’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

Cape Vattaja that is located in the Central Ostrobothnia is the largest known dyne area in a coniferous forest zone. Cape Vattaja belongs to the Natura 2000 Network. When the last ice are finished a large sand rage was formed in the area. Later the waves have leveled the ground. The area has become a characteristic sand area. Most of Cape Vattaja is a target practice area for the Finnish defense forces. In addition to that the area is important for recreation use and tourism. Inconsiderate use of the area can endanger the existence of Nature types. The most important threats of the area are the action of the defense forces, the actions of the forestry industry uncontrolled recreation use and the luck of information.

Production Organization(s): Soveri Wildlife Films Ltd, Meriter Oy, Metsähallitus, EU Life ProgramProducer: Soveri Wildlife Films LtdDirector: Kari Hallantie, Kasper KoskelaPhotographer: Meri Rahkola, Marko Sievänen, Mika SievänenPicture Editor: Kari SoveriSound: Soveri Wildlife Films LtdScript Writer: Meri Rahkola, Marko Sievänen,Narrator: Ann Albrecht

Award category: Finnish, Environmental Conservation

Oy Soveri Wildlife Films Ltd / Kari SoveriAddress: Långörentie 42 D 42 01100 Östersundom Helsinki, FinlandTel: +358 9 278 9484Fax. +358 9 278 9484. Email. [email protected]

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THE GULF OF CORINTH

Country: GreeceLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 43’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis This is the story of the Gulf of Corinth in Greece that separates mainland Greece from its south part of Peloponnesus. The sea is home to three kinds of dolphins and even whales have very rich diversity of marine life in its deep waters that can reach up to 900 m depth. The Gulf of Corinth is associated strongly with the Greece mythology and a history of more that 6 000 years. At the east side of the sea is the famous Corinth Canal, a 6 km long sea stripe connecting it by sea with the Aegean Sea On its west end a modern giant 2,5 km long bridge connects Peloponnesus by land with mainland Greece. Nowadays, there are many environmental concerns there due to “a red mud” pollution at the bottom of the sea caused by an aluminium factory operating on its mainland coast. The red mud seems to contaminate the sea and affects marine life in the Gulf, threatening also the health of the inhabitants around it. This film is depicting the beauty of the Gulf of Corinth including also a strong conservation message against its pollution.

Production Organization(s): Lyssipian Culture Centre of Corinth, Culture Research Centre of North Peloponnese, Corinthian Environmental movement Producer: Lyssipian Culture Centre of CorinthDirector: George PalamarisPhotographer: George Palamaris, Fotis Horemis, Tsvetomir Tsankov Picture Editor: George Palamaris Sound: Nathalie BaumannScript Writer: George Palamaris, Maria KrondiriNarrator: George PalamarisMusic Composer: Nathalie Baumann

Award category: Environmental Conservation, Low budget

George Palamaris/ Tsvetomir TsankovD.D. Pirgos- 20009-Derveni-Corinthias, GreeceTel. +30 2430 95428Email. [email protected]

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Farming Our Future

Country: IndiaLanguage: Sutitled in EnglishLength: 25’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis The film “Farming Our Future” depicts the ill effects of chemical farming and the role of organic farming in the creation of a healthy world. As life’s pace accelerates, we tend to neglect our environment. This has led to the extent of poisoning even the mother’s milk; the baby inside the womb has not been spared, either. The chemicals applied in agriculture are really compositions which have deleterious effect on human body. As a result, the quantity of these toxic substances in the food we consume is also large. The frantic efforts to step up food production to match the fast growth in world population have resulted in very serious consequences. Our ancestors had acquired a deep insight into the environment surrounding them. When they cleared the woods to get living space, they preserved certain regions as kaavu (Sacred groves) which is a small evergreen patch in the courtyard from where even a twig is not taken away for human use. One sees here the beginnings of organic farming. Organic farming, which is beneficial in social, economic and environmental aspects, has a solid scientific support, too. Use of locally available resources is the highlight of organic farming. Healthy soil means healthy food; healthy food means healthy people.

Production Organization(s): Visile TV ProfessionalsProducer: Venu NairDirector: Venu NairPhotographer: Lalu, SidharthanPicture Editor: Rajesh KrishnanSound: Rajesh KrishnanScript Writer: DR. N. Ajith KumarNarrator: Uttam JoyEffects Editor: NILScientific Adviser: Dr. V.S. VijayanMusic Composer: Stock MusicDistributor: Visile TV Professionals

Award category: Environmental Conservation, Low Budget, Science

Visile Tv ProfessionalsAddress: Shankaramangalam, Gra 777/A, Gowrisapattom, Trivandrum-695 004, Kerala, India- Phone: +91- 471- 2557555, Cell +91 94473 88613, +91 96459 88613Fax: +91- 471- 2557555E-Mail: [email protected]: www.visiletv.com

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Blue Revolution in Lakshadweep

Country: IndiaLanguage: EnglishLength: 28’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis The tiniest and single-district Union Territory of India, Lakshadweep is an archipelago consisting of 12 atolls, three reefs and five submerged banks. It comprises 10 inhabited and 17 uninhabited islands, attached islets, 4 newly formed islets and 5 submerged reefs spread over 32 sq. km in all. It is located approximately between 8 º - 12 º North latitude and 71º -74º East longitude. It is in the emerald Arabian sea 220 - 440 km away from the coastal city of Kochi in Kerala. In Lakshadweep, drinking water is a serious problem and people heavily depend on the scarce ground water which is far from sufficient for their requirements. Technologies like desalination and reverse osmosis have been tried to get fresh water which, however, proved economically unviable. This serious drinking water problem of the islanders was overcome, jointly by the Center for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) and India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF), by means of rainwater harvesting. This film is about the resounding success achieved in solving drinking water problem in the remote Lakshdweep Islands through rainwater harvesting using structures based on ferro-cement technology.

Production Organization(s): Visile TV ProfessionalsProducer: Venu NairDirector: Venu NairPhotographer: SidharthanPicture Editor: John KuttySound: SureshScript Writer: DR. N. Ajith KumarNarrator: Uttam JoyEffects Editor: NILScientific Adviser: Dr. E.J. JamesMusic Composer: Stock MusicDistributor: Visile TV Professionals

Award category: Environmental Conservation, Low Budget

Visile Tv ProfessionalsAddress: Shankaramangalam, Gra 777/A, Gowrisapattom, Trivandrum-695 004, Kerala, India- Phone: +91- 471- 2557555, Cell +91 94473 88613, +91 96459 88613Fax: +91- 471- 2557555E-Mail: [email protected]: www.visiletv.com

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S t o r i e s o f L i f e o n E a r t hE p i s o d e 1: FISH

Country: PortugalLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 25’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

This is the first episode of the first Portuguese documentary 6-episode series on the history of evolution. How did fishes, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals evolve and conquer the planet’s different environments? Using real wildlife images, colorful illustrations, 2D and 3D computer animation, these are the questions we wish to answer…

Production Organization(s): Lx FilmesProducer: Luis CorreiaCo-production: ICAM/MC, RTPDirector: Luis CorreiaPhotographer: Luis Correia, Leonardo SimõesSound: André CarrilhoNarrator: Rita MoreiraEffects Editor: Rui Braz, Rui Del-NegroScientific Adviser: Rui Rebelo, Jose Filipe CostaDistributor: Lx Filmes


Lx FilmesAddress: Travessa do Corpo Santo, 29, 2.º, 1200-131, Lisboa - Portugal Tel. +351 21 865 04 90 Fax. +351 21 865 04 99Email: [email protected]: www.lxfilmes.com

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S t o r i e s o f L i f e o n E a r t hE p i s o d e 2: ARTHROPODS

Country: PortugalLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 25*Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

This is the 2nd episode of the first Portuguese documentary 6-episode series on the history of evolution. How did fishes, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals evolve and conquer the planet’s different environments? Using real wildlife images, colorful illustrations, 2D and 3D computer animation, these are the questions we wish to answer…




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S t o r i e s o f L i f e o n E a r t hE p i s o d e 3: AMPHIBIANS


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This is the 3d episode of the first Portuguese documentary 6-episode series on the history of evolution. How did fishes, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals evolve and conquer the planet’s different environments? Using real wildlife images, colorful illustrations, 2D and 3D computer animation, these are the questions we wish to answer…



‘Lx FilmesAddress: Travessa do Corpo Santo, 29, 2.º, 1200-131, Lisboa - Portugal Tel. +351 21 865 04 90 Fax. +351 21 865 04 99Email: [email protected]: www.lxfilmes.com

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S t o r i e s o f L i f e o n E a r t hE p i s o d e 4: REPTILES


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This is the 4th episode of the first Portuguese documentary 6-episode series on the history of evolution. How did fishes, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals evolve and conquer the planet’s different environments? Using real wildlife images, colorful illustrations, 2D and 3D computer animation, these are the questions we wish to answer…




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S t o r i e s o f L i f e o n E a r t hE p i s o d e 5: BIRDS


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S t o r i e s o f L i f e o n E a r t hE p i s o d e 6: MAMMALS


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Peru - Dolphins in Danger

Country: Germany/ PeruLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 53’Completion date: 2009

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In Peru every year minimum 15.000 Dolphins die illegal by the hand of poor people. The fishermen sell the meat as ‚Sea-Pig’ on the markets. This documentary is on dolphins and Peruvian people along the coast and the Amazon river where they in a special way are ‘communities of destiny’. The German biologist Stefan Austermuehle and his Peruvian wife Nina Pardo fight a tremendous battle against the dolphin slaughter. They work with unusual and sustainable solutions as undercover-researches, police-operations and trainings for the fishermen to tourist guides as alternative to the killing. Only the fishermen prosperity also imply the dolphins survival.

Production Organization(s):medienkontor FFP / GILDE - film & tv Producer: Kerstin Meyer Director: Uli PfoertnerPhotographer: Gerald Fritzen, Uli PfoertnerPicture Editor: John ToftSound: Christian Schoerling Script Writer: Uli Pfoertner Narrator: Max Volkert MartensScientific Adviser: Stefan AustermuehleMusic Composer: Peter Gabriel, Uli PfoertnerDistributor: GILDE - film & tv

Award category: Environmental Conservation

GILDE - film & tv production/ Uli PfoertnerAddress: Im Weizen 1Phone: +49 6472 911636Fax: +49 6472 911635E-mail: [email protected]: www.gildefilm.de

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The Strait, The Gateway to the Worlds

Country: SpainLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 54’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

This is the story of a major journey of a place that old legend has cast its spell on. A magical place where even today the air echoes ancient stories of Gods, sea monsters and storms that would sink vessels that ventured from this very spot. A cursed place that seems to have a soul of its own. Its waters have taken more lives than any other place on Earth. This small stretch of sea is at the nearest point between two different continents; hence, it is a necessary part of the journey for all animal migration that has taken place between four worlds that only merge here: Africa, Europe, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.Year upon year, this setting portrays an epic in which thousands of forms of life face the fury of nature in order to cross the threshold from one world to another: This is the Strait of Gibraltar.

Production Organization: Articam ProduccionesProducer: Josep M ReixáDirector: Alberto Gómez LatorrePhotographer: Alejandro DiazPicture Editor: Lorena Hernández TudelaSound: Salvador SuanoScript Writer: Alberto Gómez LatorreNarrator: Alfonso VallesEffects Editor: Lorena Hernández TudelaScientific Adviser: Miguel FerrerMusic Composer: Emilio AlquezarDistributor: Articam Producciones


Organization: Articam produccionesAddress: Mendez Nuñez 3 08003 barcelona spainPhone: 34 933150033E-mail: [email protected]: www.articam.es

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Noura

Country: IrakLanguage: Subtitled in English Length: 10’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

This short film is about the social behavior of a mid-eastern divorced woman who lives in Europe…

Production Organization(s): Rania ProductionProducer: Mohammad TawfikDirector: Mohammad TawfikPhotographer: Mohammad Tawfik, Kameran IbrahimPicture Editor: Mohammad TawfikSound: Mohammad TawfikScript Writer: Mohammad TawfikNarrator: Midya Begard

Award category: Detrucked from categories (ethnographic documentary)

Rania Production/ Mohammad TawfikAddress: Nobis Mölle 38, 3460 Birkeröd, DenmarkTel +45 50 57 4889Email: [email protected]

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Men, Machines and Gods

Country: BrazilLanguage: Subtitled in EnglishLength: 49’Completion date: 2008

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Is the essence of technology technological? This question has brought together In the Amazon area, an indigenous leader, a shaman and a group of scientists. On one hand, the building of a cultural centre linked to the internet and the preservation of indigenous traditions. On the other hand, a scientific research project with robots, identifying the richness of the local biodiversity, as well as setting up a system of an environmental monitoring…

Producer: Luis DuvaDirector: Eduardo DuwePhotographer: Eduardo DuwePicture Editor: Guta PachecoSound: Amilcar FarinaScript Writer: Eduardo DuweComposer: Amilcar Farina


Eduardo DuweAddress: Rua Pedro Doll 400 APTO 42San Paolo-SP02404-001 BrazilTel. 5511 22 833755 /25077770Email: [email protected]

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Tracking their silent voices

Country: GermanyLanguage: Subtitled in EnglishLength: 44’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

As British marine biologist Oliver Boisseau starts his expedition on a research sailing boatin spring, he doesn’t know that it will take 7 months of endurance, hard work at the opensea, adventurous lifestyle and courage to fulfil his scientific dream: a closer look on a mysterious but highly endangered group of whales, that live in the deep ocean - an unexplored species – beaked whales.

Production Organization(s): Ton und Film, BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk)Producer: Stefan GeierDirector: Stefan GeierPhotographer: Andreas KerlePicture Editor: Sebastian BöhmSound: Lars KurzScript Writer: Stefan GeierNarrator: Christoph JablonkaEffects Editor: Stefan ScheiderScientific Adviser: Oliver BoisseauDistributor: Ton und Film, Preysingstraße 10, Munich

Award category: Science

Organization: Ton und Film, Production Company/ Stefan GeierAddress: Preysingstraße 10, 81667 Munich, GermanyPhone: +49-163-2878756Fax: +49- 3212-1105369E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]: www.tonundfilm.com

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Utopia

Country: SpainLanguage: Subtitled in English Length: 78’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis Throughout history, human beings have surprised us by creating ingenious solutions to overcome conflicts, to encourage solidarity and to guide us through chaotic situations. UTOPIA is a documentary film focusing on certain contributions which have proved irreplaceable tools in overcoming environmental, social and spiritual crisis. In this documentary film, journalists, agriculturists, businessmen, retired people, bankers, scientists, lawyers, doctors, housewives and teachers, among others, show us different ways to reach a seemingly uneatable utopia. Each testimony will show us an example that to live in harmony with our environment is not just possible, creative and joyful, but that it increases our capacity to connect with life and people. When we work for life, life works for us.

Producer: Patricia Roda/Salomón ShangDirector: Lucho Iglesias & Alex RuizPhotographer: Alex RuizPicture Editor: Alex RuizScript writer: Lucho IglesiasScientific advisor: VariousSound: Alex RuizNarrators: Pilar OlonaEffects editor: La FreskeraComposer: Luis PaniaguaOriginal Format: HDDistributor: Producciones KaplanSubmitted by: Producciones Kaplan


Production Organization(s): Producciones KaplanAddress: Paseo de Gracia 115, Bajos, 08008 Barcelona. SpainPhone: + 93 218 43 45Fax: + 93 218 43 45E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]: www.kaplanproducciones.com

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People and Rubbish

Country: Nigeria/ Senegal Language: English Length: 15’Completion date: 2010

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Every hour, a hundred African children die from diarrhea. Most of these lives can be saved through better access to sanitation and improved basic hygiene. What would make an educated man, in a suit, buy banana on the roadside and throw the peel from a balcony to the ground when he is done?” That behavior is indicative of the level of contempt we have for public health and our environment. The magnitude of public health problems in Africa is evident from the heaps of filth on which we sit and eat and do business. Our cities, streets, our backyards, our living rooms, our hospitals, our restaurants and our so-called five stars hotels are marked with little pyramids of filth, including industrial effluents. It is amazing how we share our territory with outrageous heap garbage and waste matter and still maintain good health.

Production Organization(s): Mimbo Zil International / Dan – Osa InternationalProducer: Amin AimuamwosaDirector: Sunday Dolph ChristopherPhotographer: Sunday Dolph ChristopherPicture Editor: Nosa OsakueSound: Ndoffene FayeScript Writer: Sunday Dolph ChristopherNarrator: Sunday Dolph Christopher

Award category: Short, Environmental Conservation

MIMBO ZIL INTERNATIONALAddress: N° 2 Ighodaro Close, Off Sapele Road Benin CityE-mail: [email protected]

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Djemo, Goat And Brucellosis

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Language: Subtitled in English Length: 19’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Brucellosis is a very dangerous disease that affects sheep, goats and other animals. It, also, gets transferred to people and it is very hard to treat. About 500.000 people get affected every year, worldwide. Until year 2004 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, brucellosis was not significantly present. But, with uncontrolled import of live stock, that started this year, brucellosis became highly increased disease in this country. In 2007. 500 people got affected. In first half of 2008, 12.500 sheep and goats were euthanized, when brucellosis got epidemic proportions.

Producer: Nisvet HrustićDirector: Nisvet HrustićPhotographer: Nisvet Hrustić, Teo AgačevićPicture Editor: Nisvet Hrustić, Rrof. Sead HrustićScript writer: Nisvet Hrustić, Scientific advisor: Rrof. Sead HrustićSound: Amer ŠehićNarrators: Draženka Laštro; Nisvet HrustićEffects editor: Nisvet HrustićComposer: Amer ŠehićOriginal Format: DV-CAM (PAL)Distributor: Nisvet HrustićSubmitted by: Nisvet Hrustić

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Nisvet HrustićAddress: Podgradina b.b. 72250 VITEZ, Bosnia and HerzegovinaPhone: 00387 61 372 370E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.nisvet-hrustic.com

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A Tree and a Flower

Country: USA Language: EnglishLength: 6’Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

The tree was lonely, but one day he found a flower growing on his shoulder…

Amination Artist: Tomoko OguchiDirector: Tomoko OguchiScript writer: Tomoko OguchiComposer: Zbigniew Slesicki Narrator: Paul SaviorSubmitted by: Tomoko Oguchi

Award category: Short, Animation

Address: 330 EAST 100TH STREETH 6B, NEW YORK, NY 10029, USAPhone: +1 212 360 1721E-mail: [email protected]: www.tomokooguchi.com

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Catching

Country: Finland /Argentina Language: English subtitlesLength: 12’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Kaarina (actress Tanja Heinänen) is an unemployed Finnish sawmill worker, who travels to Argentina to work after having enough of the short term jobs back up North. The film is a personal statement about the ongoing global transformation of the forest industry. “Catching” continues from the themes of the sawmill related short film “If I Fall”, by Hannaleena Hauru, 2007. The film is opening a universal aspect to the issues about forest industry – work, environment and the search of love. “Catching” is combining everyday work to a poetic context with a dramaturgic structure following a cross-section of a tree.

Producer: Hannaleena HauruDirector: Hannaleena HauruCinematographer: Hannaleena HauruEditor: Andrea Zapata GirauScriptwriter: Hannaleena Hauru and Tanja HeinänenDistributor: Hannaleena Hauru

Award category: Low Budget, Short, Finnish

Hannaleena HauruAddress: Hämeentie 152 c 71, 00560 Helsinki, FinlandPhone: +358 50 37 40 655E-mail: [email protected]: http://aboutcatching.wordpress.com

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Walter and the Tigers

Country: United Kindom Language: EnglishLength: 23’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis Free-diving with Tiger Sharks in South Africa with Walter Bernardis, showing that Tigers are not as dangerous as we think, and investigates their behavior further. We’re left with a feeling of safety and affection for them. Then we see these Sharks killed in the local beach nets of the Natal Sharks Board, and their dissections in front of an audience by this organization. We see the damage done to the Tiger Shark population and other Sharks and marine species too. Tigers are not a danger to humans, humans are a danger to the Tigers – and it’s humans like Walter that can save them.

Production Organization(s): Perry ProductionsProducer: Jason PerrymanDirector: Jason PerrymanPhotographer: Jason Perryman, Walter BernardisPicture Editor: Jason PerrymanScript writer: Jason PerrymanSound: Steve BondNarrator: Anil DesaiScientific Adviser: Walter BernardisEffects Editor: Liam O’ ConnorComposer: Garry Johnston Original Format: DV PALDistributor: Perry ProductionsSubmitted by: Perry Productions/ Jason Perryman

Award category: Environmental Conservation, Low Budget

Organization: Perry Productions/ Jason PerrymanAddress: 15 Greenwich High Road, London, se10 8jl, UKPhone: +44 (0) 7782 300 545E-Mail: [email protected]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542019/

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A Year In The Arctic Wild

Country: Greenland/ Sweden Language: SwedishLength: 58’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis The film ”A Year In The Arctic Wild” is about two men who leave civilization for over a year to settle in the inner parts of the giant Scoresbysundsfjorden in eastern Greenland. We follow how they create their lives in the wilderness. We also take part in their fantastic experiences in the arctic nature which includes impressive meetings with the wildlife during the four seasons.

Production Organization(s): Svante Lysen NaturbildProducer: Svante Lysen NaturbildDirector: Svante Lysen NaturbildPhotographer: Oscar Andersson, Svante Lysen NaturbildPicture Editor: Svante Lysen Naturbild, Karolyi FilmScript writer: Svante Lysen NaturbildSound: Svante Lysen NaturbildEffects editor: Art H BilderComposer: Harald SvenssonOriginal Format: HDDistributor: Svante Lysen NaturbildSubmitted by: Svante Lysen

Award category: NORDIC

Svante Lysen Naturbild Phone: +46 303-22 22 23 Tel: +46 303-22 22 23 Mob: +46 733-14 28 37 E-post: [email protected] Website: http://www.svantelysen.se

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Emotions in Winter

Country: Lithuania Language: music Length: 4’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

This short film is a musical sensitivity about winter nature in Lithuania.

Production Organization(s): Vigmantas BaleviciousProducer: Vigmantas BaleviciousDirector: Vigmantas BaleviciousPhotographer: Vigmantas BaleviciousPicture Editor: Vigmantas BaleviciousScript writer: Vigmantas BaleviciousSound: Vigmantas BaleviciousComposer: Vigmantas BaleviciousOriginal Format: mini DV Distributor: Vigmantas BaleviciousSubmitted by: Vigmantas Balevicious

Award category: Short, Low Budget

Vigmantas BaleviciousAddress: 50111, Kelmu 7-1, Kaunas, LithuaniaTel: +370 61017942Fax: +370 61017942Email: [email protected]: www.kardas.lt

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Saving the Slumdog Donkeys

Country: United Kingdom Language: English Length: 51’Completion date: 2009

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Pensioners Jean and Bob Harrison are determined to save the working donkeys of Delhi. These ‘slumdog donkeys’ are being worked to death, seldom reaching their 5th birthday. With no veterinary skills of their own, they enlist the help of a local vet. Together they visit donkey sites dispensing medicine and tending to horrific injuries. But for every donkey they save there are hundreds more dying and the Harrisons quickly find themselves overwhelmed. They planned to stay for a year in India but their money soon runs out. More devastating news comes when their vet decides to leave. And when their local animal shelter closes its doors, they are forced to face the painful decision as to whether they can carry on…

Production Organization(s): Barron ProductionsProducer: Angie VosDirector: Andrew BarronPhotographer: Angie VosPicture Editor: Andrew BarronScript writer: Andrew BarronSound: Angie VosNarrator: Tim GrahamComposer: Audio Networks PlcOriginal Format: DigibetaDistributor: TVF InternationalSubmitted by: Barron Productions

Award category: Low Budget

Barron Productions Address: 6 Ferndale Road, London, SW4 7SF, UKTel: +44 (0) 777 6376 168Fax: +44 (0) 705 065 2191Email: [email protected]: www.andrewbarron.com

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Jiji Grass

Country: China Language: English subtitlesLength: 35’Completion date: 2008

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Growing within Gobi Desert along China’s HeXiZouLang, Ji Ji Grass is almost everywhere in the region. A group of people has lived for 500 years in this village with their farm land and sheep. Together with the ancient castle which they are now living in, and the Great Wall that their ancestors had guarded, these people nearly distinct now years after years. Ji Ji Grass, seven roots, taking deep, can’t be frozen, can’t be dried. Nowadays, villagers in Xia Kou ancient castle have already forgot how prosperous the Silk Road had brought this land to be. Huge amounts of fertile land, which had been great proud of their ancestors, are now annihilated. People in the castle, are spending a whole life only with their sheep. Are they waiting, or already numb?

Director: Huang JianBio: Huang Jian graduated from China National Academy of Fine Arts in 1986. Throughout the following ten years, HUANG involved in various fine arts projects and art education. His paintings have been presented and awarded at many national exhibitions throughout China. HUANG started his video production in 1995 when he joined Zhejiang Television. Since 2000 he’s been producing “Western Geography”, a ground-breaking major television documentary series to record the life, culture and history of western parts of China. As the producer and director of this production, HUANG traveled extensively in China’s western regions with his production team and studio. The major documentary films in this highly claimed series include “Face Painting – Face Tattooed Women From Du-Long-Jiang Valley”, “Tales of Zhong-Dian Horse Race”, “The Last Primeval Worship”, etc.. The documentary “Gate” created by Huang in 2005 was selected to participate in FIPA 2006 France, and it got the nomination award for top 10 Chinese documentaries in 2005. Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film Festival Submitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival

Award category: Short, Natural History, Environmental Concervation

Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival / Jennifer AiAddress: A2202, A2-3, Zhaowei Huadeng Mansion, No.14, Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang DistrictBeijing, 100015, China Tel: +86-10-8456-2171 Fax: +86-10-8456-2061 Email: [email protected]: http://www.film-yaan.com

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The Vanishing Village


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The Vanishing Village is one segment in the documentary series The Spirit of the Shennongjia Mountains. There was an old village - Yinyu River Village in the Shennongjia mountain area In China’s Hu Bei province. In the fall of 1997, a TV crew of Beijing television station set out through the 55 kilometer long Yinyu River gorge for seeing how people live in this remote mountain village, inaccessible by road and with no electric lights or power. Unfortunately, a fall on the steep mountain trails left the director with a broken ankle, and the crew had to cut our filming short after only one week. Three years later, the village has been demolished by the local government for environmental protection reasons. People who have lived here for generations had moved away from their beloved home, giving the land back to nature. The wild lives that will continue to flourish in the mountains. However, they will never know what a high price these villagers have paid for their sustainable survival. Director: Zhao YanyingBio: Ms. Zhao Yanying, born on June 1st, 1954, China Beijing Television documentary film producer, director. She started working in Beijing TV Station since 1983. She was the director and anchor of life channel, Chief Editor, Director of English channel, Director of large competition program. She started making documentary films since 1985. Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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Bird Whisper


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Ju Tashi Sanglhuo, Khenpo of Baiyu Monastery in Qinghai, started bird watching at his age of 13, and so far has more than 400 pieces of hand drawing works of local wild birds. He is quite familiar with the folktales about bird in Amdo Tibetan Area and the bird culture in Tibetan Buddhism, and he is enthusiastic about environmental protection. Since 2000, he has begun to observe and record the birds of Tibetan plateau area, and discovered more than 400 kinds of bird, many of which are only distributed there. Every year, Tashi Sanglhuo, who is respectfully called “Bird-watching Lama”, works in the field for 9 months. In 2007, as the president, he launched Nyainbo Yuze Ecological Protected Association.

Director: Lv BinBio Lv Bin is a video facilitator for the Shan Shui Conservation Center, He has worked continuously in the field of community film projects, including the animated film Ahka New Year, which he completed with a Hani director, Meilan, in 2003. In 2007, he completed the “Eyes of the Village-Nature and Culture Documentation Project” training program. As a filmmaker, his works mostly focus on themes of traditional cultures and nature conservation. His works include Red Lotus in Bloom, Eyes of Shangri-La, and Bird Whisper.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival


Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival / Jennifer AiAddress: A2202, A2-3, Zhaowei Huadeng Mansion, No.14, Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang DistrictBeijing, 100015, China Tel: +86-10-8456-2171 Fax: +86-10-8456-2061 Email: [email protected]

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Bird’s Nest


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The film takes place in a Miao Village in Guizhou Province with a beautiful natural landscape. A letter breaks the quiet lives of the children there. Jia Xiangma’s father says in the letter that he is busy building the Bird’s Nest in Beijing, but his friends don’t believe him. The villagers even don’t know what the Bird’s Nest is used for. The elderly people are busy showing off, while the businessmen connect it with coffee advertising. How can he make his own miracles to reach his dream?

Director: Ning JingwuBio: In 1996, Ning Jingwu graduated with a master degree in directing from Beijing Film Academy. He is well-known for discovering poetry in ordinary life and exquisite relationships between people. During the years, he has been working as a screenplay writer, film director and sometimes, film producer. His new film <Lala’s Gun> was one of the competition films in the Generation Program of the 59th Berlin International film festival.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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In The Name Of The Water


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The film includes three sub-films—The Revenge, Weird Water and Recording Environment, which are exteriorly irrelated to each other and alternate one after another on the screen. In doing so, the striking images are shown in a dramatic as well as faithful way so as to unveil the full range of creatures’ reactions to the global environment crisis. We are feeling the emotions of desperation, panic, hopelessness, numbness and also self-mockery. Via interpreting how human beings cause the water crisis, it is to alert people to reflect the relationship between human beings and the nature and arouse more attention to the environment issues while involving spectators in such lifelike and extreme debating as well as weepy laughing.

Director: Jiang XiaoyuBio: Academic Degrees: Nanjing University, Beijing Film AcademyProfessional Appointments: Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Critic, Music Critic and Writer.Works: Screening Butterfly; In the Name of the Water; Red; Approaching Storm etc. Honors and Rewards: 1, Best Director of Environmental Consciousness—“The First China International Environmental Film Week” —In the Name of the Water 2, Best Film —“The First China International Environmental Film Week” —In the Name of the Water Other Activity:Promote “Environment-friendly Film Campaign in China” with Director Feng XiaogangDistributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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The Return of Grain worms


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The Return of Grain worms is a programme that tells viewers how villagers in Zhupaisha protect the habitats of tylorrhynchus for the last ten years. Zhupaisha, a fertile delta deposited by the West River, is famous for its tylorrhynchus – a kind of marine worm that is better known as He Chong in China. In every spring tide and autumn tide, tylorrhynchus would emerge from mud and swim on water surface. In Chinese this is called the Chu Zao of tylorrhynchus. We started following the tylorrhynchus habitats ten years ago and have recorded many rare scenes of Chu Zao. However, these scenes are gradually disappearing as a result of industrialization. For the last several years, the rapid industrial development near Zhupaisha and the worsening pollution in upstream West River have been damaging the tylorrhynchus habitats and caused a year-by-year decrease in tylorrhynchus production. Villagers of Zhupaisha are using their wisdom to protect the environment and take care of the only tylorrhynchus habitats they have left. Now the number of tylorrhynchus begins to increase, and scenes of their Chu Zao can again be captured by cameras.

Directors: Zheng YiguangBio: Mr. Zheng Yiguang, born in 1969, is a native of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. He has been in the television business for sixteen years.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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The Legend of Amber


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This is a story of how a deserted shipyard becomes the first theme park in China. In GuangDong province of South China, by the QiJiang riverside of ZhongShan city, the beautiful QiJiang Park, sealed and solidified the old shipyard of last century, a beautiful amber derived from this story. QiJiang Park was honored the Award from the Landscape Designer Association of America, it has changed the history of Chinese landscape design. Beautiful pictures, delicate expressions, as well as participants’ wonderful presentation, has delivered the audience incomparable beauty of QiJiang Park. Directors: Lei Xiaoyan Lei, Chen JinxiaBio: Lei Xiaoyan Lei: Senior Director of ZhongShan Television and Broadcasting Station, Guang Dong ,China, has been working as journalist editor and director since 1987. Main works includes Trademark, Protector of Enterprise, Reflect on Rush of Registration of Trademark, Seeking Brightness in the Dark.Chen Jinxia: Journalist of Press Department Senior Director, Deputy director in previous ZhongShan Cable Television Station between 1994 and 1999; Deputy director of Press Department, director Assistant minister of Broadcasting in previous ZhongShan Television Station between 1999 and 2005; Assistant minister of Broadcasting in ZhongShan Broadcast and Television Station since 2005.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival

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Tibetan Mastiff


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Tibetan mastiff is the great helper of herdsmen in Tibetan Plateau. There are three puppy mastiffs in Luoya, a nomad in Yushu Grassland. The puppies’ parents both died in a fight with wolves after they gave birth less one month. To memory those died mastiffs, Luoya decided to donate one of the puppies to a monastery. Luoya also made a decision to sell one to cure his wife’s disease. At last, only one is left at home. One year later, the mastiff sold to a cultivation field is the sign of it. The one in the monastery is a favourite of the monks. The one left in grassland grows up too.Through recording three Tibetan mastiffs’ different experience in grassland, monastery and cultivation field, this film reveals close relations between Tibetan mastiff and herdsmen in plateau and between Tibetan mastiff and grassland, displays unknown loyalty, courage and wildness in Tibetan mastiffs. Director: Chen XuejiaoBio: Chen Xuejiao, graduated in Asian Studies of University of Hawaii in the end of 2006, is a director of Film Department of Qinghai Television now. Amacha, the documentary he directed,

was won the third prize of China News Award in 2003.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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Rhapsody for Panda Basi


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The documentary tells a story of the Fuzhou Panda bear who was away for her summer holidays in a high mountain. Guess the worry of panda Basi who famous nationwide from the humanities by a university student, treated the question of the existence of animal and the relationship between the human being and the animal.

Director: Guo WeiBio: Guo Wei, documentary director of Fuzhou TV Station, senior editorShe graduated from Fujian Teacher’s University and worked as a documentary director from 1997Her major documentary film works includes“The Ancient Bridges of Fuzhou” “Lin Shu” “Life- saving

Temple” Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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ERH-CHIN MOUNTAINSA-


Synopsis:

The film includes three sub-films—The Revenge, Weird Water and Recording Environment, which are exteriorly related to each other and alternate one after another on the screen. In doing so, the striking images are shown in a dramatic as well as faithful way so as to unveil the full range of creatures’ reactions to the global environment crisis. We are feeling the emotions of desperation, panic, hopelessness, numbness and also self-mockery. Via interpreting how human beings cause the water crisis, it is to alert people to reflect the relationship between human beings and the nature and arouse more attention to the environment issues while involving spectators in such lifelike and extreme debating as well as weepy laughing.

Director: Bai ChengBio: Bai Cheng, the Han nationality, member of Xinjiang Social Science Association and China Televised Documentary Academy, son of Xinjiang builders from Sichuan, worked as an announcer at broadcasting and radio stations from 1988 and host for TV programs from 1992. In 2003 Mr. Bai set up his own workshop: TV Professionals Media Workshop. Many of his works have been broadcasted on local, provincial or national media, with part of that won honors for him in different competitions. Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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Pika and Grassland

Country: China Language: English subtitlesLength: 10Completion date: 2008

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In Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in our country and its adjacent districts lives a kind of mammals named plateau pika. It is as small as the mouse, with pointed nose and short tail, very cute. However, since 1950s, the plateau pika has been regarded as the harmful animal on the grassland and they have suffered the large-scale poisoning of human beings constantly, with the largest poisoning area once reaching 13 million hectares. In the places where human beings dispense the poisoned baits, the probability for the pika to survive is very little. How does the little animal offend human beings? Can human beings protect their own benefit only by slaughtering.

Director: Pan MengBio: Pan Meng graduated from Communication University of China in 2005, and has worked as an editor and director of TV programs since 2006.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival

Award category: Natural History / Environmental Conservation


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Lost HeavenCountry: China Language: English subtitlesLength: 7Completion date: 2008

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In the middle of the 1950s, a Tibetan child named Suobao moved to the Eling Lake, the headwater of Huanghe River together with his family. It was a place of daunting beauty, a Heaven to him. They settled there ever since then. However, due to reasons like climate change, the eco-environment in the Eling Lake area deteriorated since the middle of 1980s. Suobao lost his Heaven unconsciously.In the meanwhile, climate changes also influenced Alimaqing Snow Mountain, a sacred mountain to the Tibetan people. From 2004 to 2007, large scales of ice avalanche took place successively in this area, and glaciers were melting faster and faster. Is Alimaqing Snow Mountain, the heaven to Tibetan People walking to its end now?

Director: Chen XiBio: Chen Xi graduated from NanJin Institute of Meteorology in 1986 and engaged in meteorological video producer since 2002.Before that time, she has been worked at Qinghai Meteorological Observatory as a weather forecaster for many years, and which enriched her professional background and working experience. Besides that, she has been worked as an editor of the journal of Qinghai Meteorology, and she developed an excellent writing skills. She is interested in traveling and leaves her footprints all over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in past 20 years. As a result, she has a profound experience and better understanding on the issue of climate change

Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film Festival Submitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival

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Night Search for black-headed gull


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In 2006, from the end of June to the beginning of July, researchers from Kunming Birds Institute betook Baikal in Siberia, Russia and started scientific exploration there. This is the first time of its kind in 22 years. Researchers discovered that without human interference in Baikal district, Black-headed Gull eat, drink, excrete, and sleep all in one place, which is quite different from the living habits of black-headed gulls in Kunming. In Kunming, they gathered in the water area of the city, looking for food and playing games. While at night they leave the city for Dianchi Lake. Where indeed are they heading for? How do they sleep? And who lead the flock to the city in the dawn? To answer these questions, we will pay a visit to the Dianchi Lake in the southern suburban of Kunming at night, where we will uncover the living habits of those black-headed gulls.

Director: Pan MengBio: Pan Meng graduated from Communication University of China in 2005, and has worked as an editor and director of TV programs since 2006.Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival

Award category: Natural History / Short


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History covered by the dust


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We can research the paleoclimate to figure out the character of climate in the future, so paleoclimate is the important method to research climate change. Prof. Zhang De’er from Nation Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration is the one of paleoclimate experts who make use of ancient document and data to study climate change. In one occasional situation 20 years ago, Zhang De’er discovered a large amount of historical records of sand and dust weather in the ancient data. Through the deep study, she found the ancient dust weather was not only frequent, but of great harmful power. After arranging of much information, the historical distribution map drawn by Zhang De’er is very similar to the loess distribution map. It became the powerful evidence for the theory of the Eolian Origin of Loess.

Director: Zhao HuaiyanBio: Graduated from Communication University of China and is documentary director and producer in Documentary Department of Beijing Huafeng Group. He’s mainly responsible for scientific natural documentary creation and scheming. Distributor: China International Animal & Nature Film FestivalSubmitted by: Organizing Committee of China Animal & Nature Film Festival



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Bloody Fox

Country: The Netherlands Language: Subtitled in EnglishLength: 78’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis: When Holland banned shooting foxes in 2002, these canines seized their chance. The foxes used to be curbed by hunters, but now appear in more and more places they were never seen before. This led to consternation among farmers and hunters, but also among many conservationists. They were enthusiastic about the success of the fox but also saw how this carnivore threatened other protected species such as waders. In the spring of 2006, the Dutch government gave way to pressure from the hunting lobby: now it’s open season for foxes again. This film examines the battle between man and fox. Can this animal - a native of the low countries - decide whether it can maintain itself here or will we shape its fate from the drawing board? Nature seems stronger than people can suspect. And conservationists are becoming increasingly divided...

Production Organization(s): Selfmade FilmsProducer: Jan de Ruiter & Niek KoppenCo-producer: NCRV Director: Jan Musch & Tijs TinbergenPhotographer: Jan MuschSound: Erik LandhoutEffects Editor: Jan MuschComposer:Erik LandhoutDistributor: Cinema DelicatessenSubmitted by: Selfmade Films

Award category: Environmental Conservation Films

Selfmade Films/ Niek KoppenNieuwpoortkade 2A Postvak D.010, 1055 RX Amsterdam The NetherlandsTel: +31 - 20 - 6060789 Fax : +31 - 20 – 6885899Email: [email protected]:http://www.selfmadefilms.nl/

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Wild Russia-The Urals


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Mysterious stone monuments mark the border between Europe and Asia: On a plateau in the Northern Ural Mountains the “Seven Strong Men” loom 50 meters high into the sky. The indigenous people regard “Manpupuner” as a place where ghosts gather. Hungry wolves roam the forests in search of prey, always wary of the larger solitary bears. Herds of elk swim through broad rivers in late winter to find new feeding grounds. The rare European minks are skilled fishers, while the Russian desman, a relative of the mole, mainly dives for snails, using its long nose as a snorkel. “Wild Russia” shows the unique landscapes and species richness of the largest state in the world in breathtaking HD-quality

Production Organization(s): Gulo Film Productions for Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmCo-Production Partners: NDR, WDR, S4C, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, ANIMAL PLANETProducer: Tom Synnatzschke Executive Producer: Jörn RöverDirector: Oliver Goetzl Photographer: Ivo Nörenberg Picture Editor: Oliver GoetzlSound: Oliver Goetzl / Ivo NörenbergScript Writer: Oliver GoetzlNarrator: Clifford WellsEffects Editor: Christian Reimann Scientific Adviser: Nikolai Gordeyuk, Maria Onufrenya, Andrei KupriyanovMusic Composer: Kolja ErdmannDistributor: Parthenon Entertainment


Organization: Gulo Film Productions/ Oliver GoetzlAddress: Simrockstr. 111Phone: +49 40-87082567Fax: +49 40-8701446E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.gulofilm.com

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Wild Russia-The Adventure


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This is a “making-of” film that tells and shows the adventures of 10 German wildlife film making groups spread into the vast Russian landscape. Their mission was to film, spent time and effort and even to put their lives on a risk during the filming of NDR-Studio Hamburg series Wild Russia.

Production Organization(S): Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm for NDR, WDR, S4C, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, ANIMAL PLANET Director: Heiko de GrootExecutive Producer: Jörn RöverSubmitted by: Gulo Film Productions/ Oliver Goetzl

Award category: Special Jury Award

Organization: Gulo Film Productions/ Oliver GoetzlAddress: Simrockstr. 111Phone: +49 40-87082567Fax: +49 40-8701446E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.gulofilm.com

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Voimakone 1Ep.1 Varhaisia Voimakoneita

Country: Finland Language: FinnishLength: 55’Completion date: 2008

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Voimakone on jännittävä aikamatka tekniikan historiaan ja sen kehittymiseen. Matka alkaa kivikaudesta ja jatkuu ihmisen kehittämään ensimmäiseen oikeaan voimakoneeseen saakka. Kyky hyödyntää erilaisia apuvälineitä on kuulunut ihmisen ominaisuuksiin jo kehityshistoriamme alkuhetkistä lähtien ja ihminen onkin ajan saatossa onnistunut valjastamaan käyttöönsä kesyttämiensä villieläinten lisäksi myös luonnonvoimat. Ohjelma valloita mielenkiintoisella tavalla kuinka jo hyvin varhaiset keksinnöt ovat olleet tärkeä lenkki siinä kehityksen ketjussa, jonka tuloksena syntyivät kaikki nykyisin käytössämme olevat voimakoneet

Production Organization(s): Aranu Oy Production HouseProducer: Ari HäkkinenDirector: Anu HäkkinenPhotographer: Ari Häkkinen. Anu HäkkinenPicture Editor: Ari Häkkinen, Anu HäkkinenScript writer: Anu HäkkinenSound: Annu Häkkinen Distributor: Aranu Oy Production HouseSubmitted by: Aranu Oy Production House

Award category: Finnish

Aranu Oy Production House/ Anu HäkkinenAddress: Vartiotie 3 45100 Kouvola, FinlandTel: +358 5 211 27 55 , +358 50 3092083Email: [email protected]

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Voimakone 2Ep:2 Täyttä Höyryä!

Country: Finland Language: FinnishLength: 42’Completion date: 2009

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Aikamatkalla ihmiskunnan tekniseen kehitykseen vauhti kiihtyy, kun voimakone – ohjelmasarjan toisessa osassa mennään jo täyttä höyryä! Tuuli- ja Vesivoima vaihtuvat uusiin polttoaineisiin ja uuden aikakauden koneet, höyrykone ja polttomoottori pyörittävät pian pyöriä junissa, autoissa ja traktoreissa. Missä on savua ja tulta, siellä on myös energiaa: Ohjelmassa kerrotaan monipuolisesti erilaisista energialähteistä, joiden voimalla koneet käyvät. Vauhdin kiihtyessä ihmiseen on kuitenkin pysähdyttävä miettimään miten polttoaineet tulevaisuudessa riittävät…

Production Organization(s): Aranu Oy Production HouseProducer: Ari HäkkinenDirector: Anu HäkkinenPhotographer: Ari Häkkinen. Anu HäkkinenPicture Editor: Ari Häkkinen, Anu HäkkinenScript writer: Anu HäkkinenSound: Annu Häkkinen Distributor: Aranu Oy Production HouseSubmitted by: Aranu Oy Production House


Aranu Oy Production House/ Anu HäkkinenAddress: Vartiotie 3 45100 Kouvola, FinlandTel: +358 5 211 27 55 , +358 50 3092083Email: [email protected]

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Help Haiti

Country: Senegal Language: English, French, WolofLength: 5’Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

The word Wahala means sudden problems or situation that happens surprisingly. Planet Earth is our home and where there is sudden change or situations beyond our control, we, the human race should do what we can to help ourselves. Thus, we came together united to show our little contribution by doing a music video clip titled HELP HAITI. This work is been used to send messages to people of all walks of life to show interest and care about Haiti’s people after the disastrous earthquake there.

Production Organization(s): CAJUSKii Holdings Inc SUARL Producer: Kingsley E.M.OWEN Director: Jacob OkpusPhotographer: Bruno Folloy KuoivePicture Editor: Jah PolloScript writer: SidbSound: Sidb Composer: Jacob OkpusOriginal Format: DVD Distributor: CAJUSKii Holdings Inc SUARL Submitted by: Kingsley E.M.OWEN

Award category: Short & Low Budget

CAJUSKii Holdings Inc SUARL Kingsley E.M.OWEN, CEO / President Address : 215, Liberté VI Nord, Porte 103BP 35302 Dakar Colobane Sénégal, West Africa. Tel: +221-77630-8188, Fax:00221-33867-6695 Email:[email protected]

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Starry Sky

Country: Germany Language: -Length: 61’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

For several years the astrophotographer Bernd Pröschold has been travelling to the remotest landscapes of earth. Under dark skies he has captured the cosmic scenery in time lapse sequences lasting up to 24 hours. The results are unique sequences of cosmic phenomena over archaic landscapes. Completely without words the pictures are telling an epic story about the uniqueness of the cosmic creation. Pröschold´s works have found entrance into numerous TV productions and exhibitions in Germany and abroad.

Production Organization(s): Bernd PröscholdProducers: Bernd Pröschold Director: Bernd PröscholdPhotographer: Bernd PröscholdPicture Editor: Bernd PröscholdComposer: Bernd PröscholdOriginal Format: DVDDistributor: Polyband Medien GmbHSubmitted by: Bernd Pröschold


Bernd PröscholdAddress: Gymnicher Str. 4, 50937 Köln, GermanyTel: +49 221 4600345Fax:+49 221 4600345Email: [email protected] : www.sternstunden.net

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A Kalahari Tail

Country: South Africa Language: EnglishLength: 52’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

Small, cheeky, endearing, low down on the food-chain, and incredibly tough, the Ground Squirrels have had to adapt more than most in order to survive in the Kalahari. In this documentary we follow the fortunes of a small sisterhood of Squirrels, led by Scarlet, a shrewd, tough little creature who is very adept at surviving in the harsh Kalahari conditions. The other characters include Lucinda, a feisty, determined little creature; Rosy, always first in line for a feed and Molly, one of Scarlet’s daughters who has an insatiable curiosity that often lands her in trouble. They live in a network of burrows deep in the heart of the Kalahari and every day is a fight for survival. The constant threat from snakes, birds of prey, not to mention larger predators, means that ground Squirrels need to be constantly alert…

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAProducers: Sophie Vartan Director: N/A-Original Concept by Johan Vermeulen Photographer: Johan VermeulenPicture Editor: Caroline PryceSound: Craig OrmondScript writer: Bruce YoungNarrator: Michaela StrachanComposer: Kevin SmutsOriginal Format: DVC Pro HDDistributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA


NHU AFRICA / Sophie VartanLongkloof Studios/ Block A Darter’s Road, Gardens 8001 Cape Town, South AfricaTel. +27 (0)21 422 0154Fax +27 (0)21 422 0012Email: [email protected] , [email protected]: www.nhuafrica.com

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Antarctica – Journey into the White Desert


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A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory that has long occupied the human psyche. Antarctica is a continent of remote natural wonder. For brief moments each year this hauntingly beautiful landscape opens up, beckoning scientists and explorers from around the world to investigate its frozen secrets. ‘Journey into the White Desert’ takes us on a mesmerizing visual adventure into this mysterious continent, introducing us to a team of South African scientists, researchers and explorers who have braved the inhospitable continent in the quest to learn its secrets. The film explores South Africa’s role in the greatest wilderness on earth and showcases some of the groundbreaking research that could make the difference to our survival on this planet.Millions of years ago Africa was connected to the Antarctica in a land mass known as Gondwanaland. Once again, through the power of film, the vast freezing land of Antarctic will be connected to the mother continent.

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAProducers: Sophie Vartan Director: Damon FosterPhotographer: Damon FosterPicture Editor: Damon Foster & Caroline PryceSound: Stef AlbertynScript writer: Trisha BirkettNarrator: Nkuli KgotsitsisleComposer: Grant MclachlanOriginal Format: HDCam Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA

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Ice Man - The Lewis Gordon Pugh Story


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Lewis Pugh has 10 seconds before he plunges into the freezing Arctic Ocean, where he swims a kilometre across Antarctica, wearing nothing but a Speedo and a swim cap, a feat never thought possible. ‘Ordinary’ humans would probably die within minutes in this icy water! How can his naked body cope with these conditions for so long? And why on earth would anyone want to do such a crazy thing? This documentary provides a visual experience of Lewis as he swims to draw attention to the oceans and raise awareness about climate change. Ice Man documents the extraordinary physiological and psychological journey of Lewis’s long distance swims in the freezing waters of both the south and the North Pole. With the support of cutting edge science and an incredible ability to believe in himself he hopes to unify the potential of mind and body. He has gone where no one has gone before and achieved a new understanding of the human body.

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAProducers: Sophie Vartan Director: Craig & Damon FosterPhotographer: Chris LotsPicture Editor: Damon Foster & Caroline PryceSound: Barry DonellyScript writer: Trisha BirkettScientific Adviser: Prof. Tim Noakes Composer: Kevin SmutsOriginal Format: HDCam Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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Into the Dragon’s Lair


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A terrifying journey into the darkest underwaters of the Okavango Delta – marine photographer Roger Horrocks along with veteran diver Didier Noirot follow the giant Nile crocodile into what most would consider a death-trap. His almost obsessive drive to connect with this ancient creature will mean facing a host of dangerous encounters. Roger joins Didier and the two encounter terrifying black outs, deadly hippos, and crocodiles who attempt to eat them. They then discover, deep in the darkest lair, a 14 foot crocodile that accepts their presence, allowing them to bring back footage that defies belief. These men use the strength of their beliefs and their intimate knowledge of animals to bridge the ancient interface between man and reptile.

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAProducers: Sophie Vartan/ Vyv Simson Director: Craig & Damon FosterPhotographer: Didier Noirot, Damon Foster, Roger HorrocksPicture Editor: Damon FosterSound: Barry DonellyScript writer: Roger HorrocksNarrator: Roger HorrocksComposer: Kevin SmutsOriginal Format: HDCam Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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Gorillas: Journey for Survival


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In late 2001, from the rain forests of Cameroon, four helpless baby western lowlands gorillas were taken away after their mothers had been killed by poachers. The infant gorillas were later taken to Nigeria and kept in the Ibadan zoo. Documents were forged certifying that the four gorillas were born in the Ibadan zoo, thus making it possible for the four gorillas to be smuggled through South Africa to Malaysia. After several years they mysteriously ended up in South Africa at the National Zoological Gardens. However this was not meant to be their final destination. This film chronicles the excitement of returning the Taiping Four home. It features the Gorillas’ emotional and intensive journey from South Africa into the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Cameroon. Footage of hunters and ex-hunters reveal the truths and myths about the bush meat trade and explain the world of poachers and gorilla hunters in the Cameroon.

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAExecutive Producer: Sophie VartanProducers: Sofie Vartan Director: Lianne SleghPhotographer: Falk EggertPicture Editor: Jo HiggsSound: Daniel EppelScript writer: Lianne SleghNarrator: Nick PlummerComposer: Daniel EppelOriginal Format: DVC Pro HD Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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Rainbow Nature


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The Orange River in South Africa is an oasis in an arid land. Amongst its most interesting creatures is the Augrabies Flat Lizard, locally known as the Rainbow Lizard. The name is derived from the vibrant colours of the male and reflected in the spectacular rainbow that guards over the majestic waters of the river. The males sport a rainbow of colours - an ultra-violet throat, a turquoise-blue head, yellow legs and a vivid orange abdomen - most conspicuous against the earthy colours of its surroundings, but still camouflaged from a bird’s perspective. In Rainbow Nature, we discover how remarkable these little lizards are…

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAExecutive Producer: Sophie VartanProducers: Marikke Bekker Director: Marikke BekkerPhotographer: Marc DegenaarPicture Editor: Joanna HiggsSound: Daniel EppelScript writer: Marikke BekkerNarrator: Allan BarnardComposer: Audio Network Production LibraryOriginal Format: DVC Pro HD Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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Out of Africa – Frogs in Demand


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The joy of knowing that you are pregnant and that your genetic material will live on in your newborn baby is an emotion to be shared and celebrated. In the late 1920’s it was discovered that if urine from a pregnant woman was injected subcutaneously into a female clawed frog, the frog will spawn. This developed into the first commercial pregnancy test and from the early 1930’s until the early 1960’s, large numbers of clawed frogs were exported from South Africa to various destinations worldwide for this purpose. In recent times frogs from every continent around the world have suffered from unexplained high death rates, resulting in various species undergoing severe population reductions and pushing others to the brink of extinction. Could it be that this pregnancy test was also responsible for the global decline of amphibians? Herpetologists from South Africa believe they might have found the answer…

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAExecutive Producer: Sophie VartanProducers: Jaco Loubser Director: Jaco LoubserPhotographer: Peter Seyffert & Shamiel AlbertynPicture Editor: Jaco Loubser & Noel CloeteSound: Sound Suite ProductionsNarrator: Adrian GallyComposer: Library musicOriginal Format: DVC Pro HD Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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The Search for the Knysna Elephants


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Very little is known about the elephants of the Knysna Forest. It is difficult to study an animal that you cannot find; some even doubt their existence. Hunted almost to extinction by the early 20th century, the last remaining members of the massive herds that roamed the southernmost areas of Africa instinctively knew that they had to adapt in order to survive. Within a generation or two, they had developed specialized skills to enable them to live in the kind of vegetation where they could avoid the hunter’s gun…

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAExecutive Producer: Sophie VartanProducers: Sofie Vartan Director: Mark van WijkPhotographer: Mark van WijkPicture Editor: Mark van Wijk & Alice ClarkeScript Writer: Mark van Wijk & Alice ClarkeSound: The WorkroomComposer: Francois le RouxOriginal Format: DVC Pro HD Distributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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Nature of Life


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The Nature of Life is an epic documentary feature film that will provide solutions to humanity’s greatest challenge yet - Global Climate Change. So far all we have heard is that climate change is the biggest ever environmental crisis and that it has been caused by our unsustainable approach to living. The Nature of Life, however, sets out as a great inspired clarion call to humanity, telling us that there is hope and that there are ways to adapt to and overcome this crisis. This documentary encapsulates a vision of hope that stems from the heart of Africa and expands globally, highlighting ground-breaking examples of sustainable development all over the world, inspired by the examples of Africa and the natural world.

Production Organization(s): NHU AFRICAExecutive Producer: Sophie VartanProducers: Craig & Damon Foster Director: Damon FosterPhotographer: Craig & Damon FosterPicture Editor: Damon Foster, Charlie BrittzScript Writer: Trisha BirkettSound: Donelly & Mark ShehanComposer: Kevin Smuts& Grant McLachlanOriginal Format: HD CamDistributor: NHU AFRICASubmitted by: NHU AFRICA



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Water Colours Episode 1: Fisheye Illusion

Country: Fiji Islands/ UK/France Language: EnglishLength: 50 minCompletion date: 2009

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In association with the worlds leading Research Scientists, Water Colours series is an epic exploration of underwater colour, bringing the revolutionary discovery that colour is the language of the fish... In a world where communication is ruled by colour display, marine animals have adapted to the underwater blues, by changing colour themselves - and, by changing colour, itself!

Why fish have such incredible colours? Crypsis, camouflage, mimicry and masquerade - discover colour as an integral part of marine animals social behavior. Invisible wavelengths, eye metamorphosis, polarization and vision beyond what we perceive - discover a world of illusion, in which we humans are blind.....

Production Organization(s): Liquid Motion FilmProducer: Anita Chaumette Director: Guy Chaumette Photographer: Anita Chaumette, Guy Chaumette Picture Editor: Guy ChaumetteEffects Editor : Guy ChaumetteScript Writer: Anita Chaumette, Guy ChaumetteSound: Guy ChaumetteNarrator: John Mc IntyreComposer: Luciano StortiScientific Adviser: Prof. Justin Marshall (AUS), Prof. Shaun Collin AUS),Dr. Charles Mazel (USA) Prof. Roy Caldwell (USA), Prof Mikhael Matz (USA)Original Format: DV, HDV Distributor: National Geographic TelevisionSubmitted by: Liquid Motion Film


Liquid Motion Film/ Anita ChaumetteAddress: c/o 23 Brookfield, Hampsthwaite, Harrogate, HG32EF, England, UKE-mail: [email protected]: www.liquidmotionfilm.com

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Water Colours Episode 2: A Colourful Language


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In association with the worlds leading Research Scientists, Water Colours series is an epic exploration of underwater colour, bringing the revolutionary discovery that colour is the language of the fish... In a world where communication is ruled by colour display, marine animals have adapted to the underwater blues, by changing colour themselves - and, by changing colour, itself! Bringing the revolutionary discovery that colour is the prime cryptic language of the fish, used for attracting mates, avoiding predation and fooling potential prey, this is a timely and unique portrayal of the fascinating and virtually unknown world of underwater colour communication.




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Water Colours Episode 3: A Touch of Fluorescence


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In association with the worlds leading Research Scientists, WATER COLOURS series is an epic exploration of underwater colour, bringing the revolutionary discovery that colour is the language of the fish... In a world where communication is ruled by colour display, marine animals have adapted to the underwater blues, by changing colour themselves - and, by changing colour, itself! Revealing mind-blowing behavior never filmed before and astonishing images new to science, this is a pioneering breakthrough in marine animals use of fluorescence for communication and a landmark step towards improving our understanding in this field. This is a pioneering breakthrough in underwater communication and landmark step towards improving our understanding in this field…




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Poppy’s Promise


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An organic cornfield, is a truly wild, species rich wonderland where wild dramas, tragedies and even a few comedies take place on this stage of life created by humans. In summer, our farmer raises a sea of waving heads of rye; in winter he sows grasses and clover for hungry cattle. Then in spring, corn is planted. As seed germinates, the field changes, as if by magic, into a Garden of Eden, populated by the most varied and eccentric life forms..

Production Organization(s): nautilusfilm GmbH, BR, ARTEProducer: Jan Haft Director: Jan HaftPhotographer: Kay Ziesenhenne, Jan Haft, Felix PustalPicture Editor: Stephan Berthold, Jan HaftScript Writer: Thassilo Franke, Gerwig LawitzkySound: Jan HaftNarrator: David KehoeComposer: Joerg Magnus PfeilScientific Adviser: Thassilo Franke, Gerwig LawitzkyOriginal Format: HDDistributor: nautilusfilm GmbHSubmitted by: nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie Haft

Award category: Special Awards

nautilusfilm GmbH/Melanie HaftPostfach 1314, D - 84403 DorfenTel.: (+49) 08081 / 959 661Fax: (+49) 08081 / 959 662Mob:(+49) 0179 / 788 [email protected]

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THE VOYNICH CODE

Country: Austria Language: EnglishLength: 50’Completion date: 2009

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A manuscript written by an unknown author in a language the most ingenious cryptographers have yet failed to decipher. Is it the secret knowledge of a genius? Or a modern forgery? For the first time the ink, pigments and parchment of the manuscript are analysed. Can science crack the Voynich Code?

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: ARTE, BMUKKDirector: Klaus T. Steindl, Andreas Sulzer Photographer: Hubert Doppler AACFilm Editor: Michaela MüllnerScript Writer: Klaus Feichtenberger, Martin MészárosSound: Michael Ploederl, Bernd Dormayer,Thomas KathrinerNarrator: David WilliamsonComposer: Markus PöchingerDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM

Award category: Science Films

ORF Program Sales, Würzburggasse 30, A-1136 Vienna, AustriaTel. +43-1-87878-13311Fax +43-1-87878-14884Email:[email protected]: http://tv.orf.at/tv.sales

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The Big Picture


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Life on Earth captured through satellite technology – a unique picture from space that offers an extraordinary and different view of our planet. Our space detectives create precise satellite pictures and spot potential problems. Floods and fires can be tracked daily and movements of ocean currents and snow cover can be followed throughout the season.

“Big Picture” opens the skies to let us peak as an outsider into a palette of discoveries on earth.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: Cosmos Factory and National Geographic Channel in association with Fremantle MediaDirector: Paul ReddishPhotographer: Harald MittermullerFilm Editor: Martin Elsbury Script Writer: Paul ReddishSound: Hermann Winklhofer, Manuela HornyNarrator: Howard NightingallComposer: Andy BaumDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM

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Bohemia – A Year in the Wetlands


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In Bohemia, at the very heart of Europe, south of the Golden City of Prague and guarded by medieval castles, lies a hidden mosaic of lakes and gently flowing rivers, of misty forests and mysterious peat bogs. This important wetland, shaped both by nature and centuries of influence by man, is a magnet for huge flocks of birds and home to an amazing diversity of plant and animal life.In spring there is an explosion of life as the trees are weighed down with nests of cormorants, egrets, herons and storks. With the arrival of winter the landscape becomes silent and desolate. Otters are hunting fish under the ice of frozen lakes while White-tailed Eagles soar over gaps in the ice, targeting fish and birds. Since his early childhood wildlife cinematographer Jiri Petr has spent much of his time in this wildlife paradise. Together with him, we will explore this remarkable habitat and observe the changing faces of nature during the course of one year that inspired many artists and writers alike.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter KoehlerCo-producer: BR, and ScienceVisionDirector: Michael Schlamberger, Jiri PetrPhotographer: Jiri PetrFilm Editor: Andrew Naylor Script Writer: Michael Schlamberger, Jiri PetrSound: Raimund Sivetz, Martin RohrmoserNarrator: Howard NightingallComposer: Alexander BresgenDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM



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Mount St. Helens – Life from Zero


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In 1980 Mount St. Helens exploded in one of the most powerful eruptions on American soil in modern times. Everything living was buried beneath 300 feet of avalanche debris, covered with steaming mud, topped with a superheated layer of frothy rock. It seemed as though Mount St. Helens might remain wasteland forever. Will nature be able to re-colonise this lost territory? Finding the answers has become the life-long quest of one man - biologist Charlie Crisafulli who has spent almost 30 years on the site. This is the story of natures astonishing comeback to Mount St. Helens - a story of life from zero…

Production Organization(s): Interspot, ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler, Rudolf Klingohr Co-producer: Interspot, ZDF/ARTE, NOVA/WGBH Boston, BMUKK in association with Fremantle MediaProducer: Heinrich Mayer Director: Jörg Daniel Hissen, Heinz LegerPhotographer: Josef Neuper, Erich Pröll (underwater)Film Editor: Sebastian WurgerScript Writer: Klaus FeichtenbergerSound: Michael Plöderl, Bernd Dormayer, Thomas KathrinerNarrator: Howard NightingallComposer: Roman KariolouDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM



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Wild Balkans


Synopsis Wolves hunt their prey in the valleys between high-ranging dunes, bears and lynxes wander through dense primeval forest, and the big lakes are a magnet for hundreds of bird species. That is the so-called “Balkan”. Today the “Balkans” stand for a Europe that hardly exists elsewhere.The mountains of Montenegro harbor one of Europe’s last primeval forests with trees that over 400 years of age. In the difficultly accessible hinterland we find the Tara National Park with the deepest gorge in the Karst Mountains – the 1.300 meters deep Tara gorge. Nearby Lake Skadar is home for 270 species of birds; no other lake in Europe can claim such diversity. Europe’s last coastal forest area can be found in Albania and in Bulgaria and Romania huge bat colonies live in the cave-dotted mountains. In Serbia one can cross the “European Sahara”, a desert covering a surface of 30.000 hectares. This documentary takes us on the journey through untouched wilderness in a region that has disreputably been called a powder keg and where conflicts have drawn attention away from its hidden treasures.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: BR, ARTE and ScienceVisionProducer: Rita SchlambergerDirector: Michael SchlambergerPhotographer: Michael Schlamberger, Rolando Menardi, Jiri Petr, Thomas Emrich, Gerhard PockFilm Editor: Andrew NaylorScript Writer: Michael Schlamberger, Sound: Andreas FabianekNarrator: Howard NightingallComposer: Alexander BresgenDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM



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Rift Valley Episode 1: The Animal Kingdom


Synopsis

Emerging 35 million years ago as a mysterious rift along the surface of the Earth a 6000 kilometres long fault line between eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula has created not only a unique geological phenomenon but also landscapes of immense beauty.Today, among the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the rain forests of Rwanda, and the steppes of the Serengeti and Masai Mara the crown jewels of creation – whale sharks and stingrays, mountain gorillas and forest elephants, rhinos, giraffes and lions – can be found.

The savannahs and jungles, the lakes and volcanoes of Tanzania and Kenya are like film sets, the source of western myths about Africa and a magnet for tourists. Yet most of these regions remained untouched and are still full of mysteries and wilderness. Visit the paradise of animals beyond hotels and lodges that is as untamed as the fire-spewing volcano which created it millions of years ago.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: Cosmos Factory, NDR, WDR, ARTE, BMUKK National Geographic Channels InternationalProducer: Harald PokieserDirector: Harald PokieserPhotographer: Richard Jones, Peter Kasperak, Marc Szeglat, Warren Samuels, Simon Werry (aerial)Film Editor: Jörg AchatzScript Writer: Harald PokieserSound: Herman Winklhofer, Jutta Wirth, Klaus KellermannNarrator: Paul HollingdaleComposer: Andy BaumDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM



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Rift Valley Episode 2: Soda Lakes and Inland Seas


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Emerging 35 million years ago as a mysterious rift along the surface of the Earth a 6000 kilometres long fault line between eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula has created not only a unique geological phenomenon but also landscapes of immense beauty.Today, among the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the rain forests of Rwanda, and the steppes of the Serengeti and Masai Mara the crown jewels of creation – whale sharks and stingrays, mountain gorillas and forest elephants, rhinos, giraffes and lions – can be found. After crossing the Rub al-Khali desert in Arabia we dive into the paradise of the Red Sea visiting the magic gardens of collar reefs and its inhabitants only to continue our journey to the salt flats of Dallol and the mighty Erta`Ale volcano in northern Ethopia where the oldest hominids were found.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: Cosmos Factory, NDR, WDR, ARTE, BMUKK National Geographic Channels InternationalProducer: Harald PokieserDirector: Harald PokieserPhotographer: Richard Jones, Erich Proell, Simon Werry (aerial)Film Editor: Jörg AchatzScript Writer: Harald PokieserSound: Herman Winklhofer, Jutta Wirth, Klaus KellermannNarrator: Paul HollingdaleComposer: Andy BaumDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM



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Rift Valley Episode 3: From Hell to the Holly Land


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Emerging 35 million years ago as a mysterious rift along the surface of the Earth a 6000 kilometres long fault line between eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula has created not only a unique geological phenomenon but also landscapes of immense beauty.Today, among the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the rain forests of Rwanda, and the steppes of the Serengeti and Masai Mara the crown jewels of creation – whale sharks and stingrays, mountain gorillas and forest elephants, rhinos, giraffes and lions – can be found. In this final part we travel from the dry east to the fertile mountain ranges of Uganda only to be introduced to the majestic mountain range of Kilimanjaro with Africa’s highest peaks. Its volcanoes stand as solitary giants among grasslands and together with Lake Nakuru they make up one of the most remarkable natural parks in the world.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: Cosmos Factory, NDR, WDR, ARTE, BMUKK National Geographic Channels InternationalProducer: Harald PokieserDirector: Harald Pokieser, Paul RedishPhotographer: Richard Jones, Peter Kasperak, Harald Mittermuller,Erich Proell, Marc SzeglatFilm Editor: Jörg AchatzScript Writer: Harald PokieserSound: Herman Winklhofer, Jutta Wirth, Klaus KellermannNarrator: Paul HollingdaleComposer: Andy BaumDistributor: ORF-UNIVERSUMSubmitted by: ORF-UNIVERSUM



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Lightning Reloaded


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These tremendous forces of nature are beautiful and frightening alike … and more than just heavy weather. Recent research data indicate that heavy storms and lightning in Africa are generating the notorious Atlantic hurricanes which hit the Caribbean and the US coast every summer. The bolts are even connected to climate change and obviously influence earth’s magnetic field. However, up to the present day we don’t know exactly were these lightning strikes come from and how they are created. These topics are all part of this documentary that will focus on the current state of lightning and thunder storm research using latest digital video technology. It will trace the myth of ball lightning and go into detail of a lightning strike’s anatomy as well as provide answers to sprites, lightning bolts that explode into the depth of space.

Production Organization(s): ORF-UNIVERSUMExecutive Producer: Walter Koehler Co-producer: National Geographic Channels International, ZDF, Cosmos Factory Director: Manfred Christ and Harald PokieserPhotographer: Claus AchterScript Writer: Paul RedishSound: Roland Mittermuller, Martin Stoni, Herman WinklhoferNarrator: Stewart FreemanComposer: Andy BaumOriginal Format: Distributor: ORFSubmitted by: ORF

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The Last Giants - Oceans in Danger

Country: Germany Language: Subtitles in EnglishLength: 90’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

The existence of whales in the Strait of Gibraltar is a very recent discovery, but their survival is now critically threatened. The uninterrupted traffic of more than 300 container ships per day is blocking the path to their age-old feeding and breeding grounds. It has become a battle no inhabitant of the deep can win. The world has become dependent on the products that traffic through the Strait delivers: fruits, vegetables, household goods and oil. The relentless demand for consumable products, which are transported through Gibraltar results inevitably in an ever-increasing number of collisions between ships and sea mammals. THE LAST GIANTS is the story of how human intervention could turn the tide against a global tragedy.

Production Organization(s): Stella Maris ProduktionProducer: Daniele Grieco Director: Daniele GriecoPhotography: Gerd Hägele, Kathleen Herbst, Michael Weyhers, Turmares, Herwarth Voigtmann Assistant Director Kyra-Isabelle Hartig Sound Recording Oliver Lumpe Film Editor Achim Schunck Sound Design and Original Music Stefan Mohr, Mohrmusic 5.1 Mix Ingo Schnorrenberg Postproduction qatsi.tv Color Grading CinePostproductionComposer: Stefan MohrOriginal Format: HDDistributor: Progress Film-Verleih GmbHSubmitted by: Progress Film-Verleih GmbH


PROGRESS Film-Verleih GmbH/ Kristin AhlfeldAddress: Immanuelkirchstr. 14bTel: +49 3024 003 225Fax: +49 30 24003 222Email: [email protected] : www.progress-film.de

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The Last Lioness


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A haunting roar echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn’t been for years. She has no pride, no support – she alone must safeguard her own survival. She is Lady Liuwa, the Last Lioness. In the early nineties, a scourge of illegal poaching and trophy hunting tore through Liuwa Plain. Many species were lost. Liuwa’s lions, once famous for their size and beauty, were reduced to one resilient survivor. She’s become known as Lady Liuwa, and today she is the only known resident lion on Zambia’s Liuwa Plain. Each day is a new test of survival for her. Hunting alone is difficult and often unsuccessful. Since the lions disappeared, hordes of hyenas have come to dominate the plain, threatening to steal every kill she makes.

Production Organization(s): Aquavision TV Productions for National Geographic ChannelProducer: Bronwyn WatkinsExecutive Producer: Peter LambertiDirector: Bronwyn WatkinsPhotographer: Herbert Brauer, Fergus Clark, Riaan VenterPicture Editor: Elmien Fourie Script Writer: Bronwyn WatkinsSound: Martin Ferreira, Anna Pankova, Ron & Val NelComposer: Benjamin WillemNarrator: Hermione GullifordDistributor: Aquavision TV ProductionsSubmitted by: Aquavision TV Productions


Aquavision TV Productions144 Western Service Road, Woodmead, Gauteng, 2191, South AfricaTel: +27 11 275-0900/1/2/3Fax: +27 11 656-2700/1Email: [email protected]: http://www.aquavision.co.za/

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Predator Battleground


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On Botswana’s Savuti Channel, predators - lions, hyenas, wild dogs and jackals – use the dry riverbed as a hunting ground. To survive they must strategise the best way to hunt and scavenge, rear their offspring and adapt to the changes nature might bring. It’s the dry season and prey struggle to survive deprivation and predation, crossing the gauntlet of hungry predators to reach the disappearing waterholes. Desperate times for prey animals are a predator’s delight. For Savuti’s predators, meals are easier to make than to keep. Victory is never certain, especially when a black-backed jackal alerts rival predators to a kill.

Production Organization(s): Aquavision TV Productions for National Geographic ChannelProducer: Nicole AnnearExecutive Producer: Kathryn Pasternak, Peter LambertiDirector: Nathan PilcherPhotographer: Herbert Brauer, Riaan VenterPicture Editor: Esté Nortje (S.A.G.E.)Script Writer: Percy HuggetSound: Martin Ferreira, Anna Pankova, Ron & Val NelComposer: Benjamin WillemNarrator: Dominic FrisbyEffects Editor: Red Pepper PicturesScientific Adviser: Tamsyn van GelderenDistributor: Aquavision TV ProductionsSubmitted by: Aquavision TV Productions



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Mother Warthog


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In Africa, the warthog is a constant target for hungry predators. Cheetah, Lion and Leopard actively hunt this prized delicacy. Fewer than 40% of piglets ever see their first birthday. But this year a warthog mother will face these terrible odds and try to raise her family to adulthood. She must learn from the lessons of her past and face her enemies with intelligence and determination. These are the challenges of: Mother Warthog.

Production Organization(s): Aquavision TV Productions for National Geographic ChannelProducer: Billi-Jean ParkerExecutive Producer: Peter LambertiDirector: Billi-Jean ParkerPhotographer: Herbert Brauer, Nathan Pilcher, Riaan VenterPicture Editor: Susan ScottScript Writer: Billi-Jean ParkerSound: Martin Ferreira, Ron & val Nel, Anna Pankova, Susan ScottComposer: Lenny WilliamsNarrator: Rosie CavalieroEffects Editor: Red Pepper PicturesScientific Adviser: Tamsyn van GelderenDistributor: Aquavision TV ProductionsSubmitted by: Aquavision TV Productions



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Butterflies Go

Country: The Netherlands Language: EnglishLength: 53’Completion date: 2010

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The perilous journey of the red admiral and gamma moth from St. Petersburg, Russia to Casablanca, Morocco and back crosses natural, cultural and political barriers, illustrating the difficult mission of these migratory butterflies. Paying special attention to cultural and historical places en route, the film connects the butterfly’s way of life to human life. The butterflies reproduce during their journey and it is by migrating that they manage to hibernate in the warmer regions and spend summer in the cooler regions

Production Organization(s): ABWildlife Films Productions b.v.Producer: Josephine Hamming Director: Josephine HammingPhotographer: Josephine HammingPicture Editor: Josephine HammingScript Writer: Josephine HammingSound: Bert Barten + Rico IJntemaEffects Editor: Marchel Daalhuizen (3D)Scientific Adviser: Gerrit Jan de Bruyn, Kars Veling, Rob de VosDistributor: ABWildlife Films Productions b.v.Submitted by: ABWildlife Films Productions b.v.


ABWildlife Films Productions b.v./ Josephine HammingAddress: Van Diemenstraat 410-412, 1013 CR Amsterdam The NetherlandsPhone: +31 (0) 20 625 80 34Fax: +31 (0) 20 638 61 19E-mail: [email protected]: www.wildlifefilm.eu

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THE SAGA ON THE PRIMEVAL FOREST

Country: Poland Language: Subtitles English Length: 52’Completion date: 2008

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The first in TVP’s history series of such a prestigious character, featuring the wild nature in Central and Eastern Europe. The subject of the ten-part SAGA… is the nature of the Białowieża Forest, the last remaining of the lowland ones that, once, used to cover nearly the entire continent of Europe. In the area between Poland and Belarus, everyone may find his roots and see an exclusively nature-made primeval forest, the home of the forefathers. A roe deer and a lynx become mothers at roughly the same time. The motherhood of the former is easy sailing. The life of the other, however, is put to a test. This sick lynx, despite man’s help is hardly able to feed her young. The trials and tribulations of both the mothers’ progenies are dramatically intertwined. What becomes tragedy to one is salvation to the other.

Production Organization(s): Telewizja Polska SAProducer: Krzysztof Komar Director: Bożena and Jan WalencikPhotographer: Jan WalencikPicture Editor: Jan WalencikScript Writer: Bożena and Jan WalencikSound: Bożena and Jan WalencikNarrator: Krzysztof GosztyłaComposer: Michał LorencDistributor: TVP S.A

Submitted by: Telewizja Polska SA

Award category: Natural History, Environmental Concervation

TVP S.A.17, J.P. Woronicza Street00-999 Warsaw, Polandtel: /48 22/ 547 6139, fax: /48 22/ 547 [email protected]

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Wajrak on the Trail

Country: Poland Language: Subtitles English Length: 25’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Famous reporter of the biggest Polish newspaper - Adam Wajrak - wanders across the country in search of environmental phenomena that could be observed in the most popular places. He investigates customs and behavior of numerous animals that peacefully co-exist with a man, making them more familiar to the wide audiences.

Production Organization(s): Telewizja Polska SAProducer: Witold BędkowskiExecutive producer: Andrzej Horubała, Janusz Marzec – Rewolta Sp. Z o.o. Director: Andrzej ZałęskiPresenter: Adam WajrakPhotographer: Krzysztof SkrokPicture Editor: Jacek TarasiukScript Writer: Adam Wajrak, Andrzej ZałęskiSound: Grzegorz KucharskiComposer: Pavel Fajt, Maciej Bączyk, Sławomir Sierzputowski, Andrzej ZałęskiDistributor: TVP S.ASubmitted by: Telewizja Polska SA


TVP S.A.17, J.P. Woronicza Street00-999 Warsaw, Polandtel: /48 22/ 547 6139, fax: /48 22/ 547 [email protected]

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Master of the World

Country: France Language: English SubtitlesLength: 90’Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

Richard Cruzot, 40 years old, has built a fortune by speculating on the most volatile markets. But intoxicated by the heights of his own success, Richard is blinded by the global financial crisis and knocked from his pedestal. With a new found idealism he turns his back on a society that no longer holds an attraction for him and sets off on a search for redemption from his past. Here in the mountains, far from the possessions that defined that part of his life, Richard experiences a confrontation that he has long feared and evaded. This journey leads him to the limits of his sanity and forces him to question the value of his life on Earth.

Production Organization(s): Mob ProductionsProducer: Elodie Franques Director: Enrico GiordanoPhotographer: Dan BrouwerPicture Editor: Mob ProductionsScript Writer: Enrico GiordanoSound: Antoine BrochuComposer: Brahms, Massenet, Orlando TrioDistributor: Mob ProductionsSubmitted by: Mob Productions

Award category: Not mentioned

Mob Productions19 passage Gustave Lepeu, 75011 Paris, FranceTel : +33 1 43 58 55 [email protected]

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Yak!

Country: Nepal/Germany Language: German (English Script)Length: 44’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

They have to climb three passes, each 5000 metres high. They have to stand snow and ice, to cross raging – Lamba and his rival Lamjung. Both are Yak, the wild and shaggy haired Himalayan cattle. There, in one of the remotest areas of the world, they have to cross the mountains as members of a caravan whose leaders are dealing with salt, rice and grain. On their way they risk to get caught by the mysterious and even dangerous snow-leopard. And later crossing the dry cold deserts of Tibet their feed is finished. And at the Khang-La, one of highest passes of the world, almost a catastrophe happens.

Production Organization(s): Bayerischer Rundfunk Producer: Udo Zimmermann Director: Jan KerckhoffPhotographer: Alexander Kraeft, Matthias Hlous, Jan KerckhoffPicture Editor: Jan KrugerScript Writer: Jan KerckhoffSound: Matthias Hlous, Klaus PeintnerNarrator: Gert HeidenreichEffects Editor: Reinhold KocaurekComposer: Rainer FabichDistributor: TelepoolSubmitted by: Jan Kerckhoff


Jan KerckhoffJakob-Klar-Straße 3, 80796 München Tel:+49 89 2738 9887 Email: [email protected]

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Hunting the Hunters


Synopsis

Many people dream of fighting for their ideals and for a better world. Few have the courage to actually do it, as it entails high risks. Relationships, survival and wellbeing might be at stake, and the fight could even turn out to be in vain...There are 37 “idealists” aboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza. They travel to the southernmost stretches of the globe, trying to track down the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica. Japan plans to kill more than 1,000 of the peaceful marine mammals in a whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean. They claim this is for the sake of science, but the truth is that the dead whales will end up in Japanese restaurants. The Esperanza team tries to prevent this from happening. The activists want to use inflatables to form a shield between whale and harpoon…

Production Organization(s): Leykauf Film, Arte, BRProducer: Nicole LeykaufCo-producer: Greenpeace Director: Angela GraasPhotographer: Alberto VenzagoPicture Editor: Marc HeanneckeScript Writer: Angela GraasSound: Thomas BastianComposer: Sebastian PilleDistributor: TelepoolSubmitted by: Angela Graas

Award category: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION FILMS, SPECIAL AWARDS

Leykauf FilmAddress: Tengstr. 43, 80796 München, GermanyTel: +49 89 27272164E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]: www.jagdzeit-film.de

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Winter Warmer

Country: Canada Language: No dialogue, English CreditsLength: 6’Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

There is a stereotypical notion that a Canadian winter is too cold, inconvenient and isolated. Winter Warmer is a short 5 minute film, shot on Super 16mm film, that will juxtapose this negative notion of a Canadian winter against a season where snow offers humanity a unique opportunity to engage with nature from the perspective of promoting peace, joy and happiness - if people would only take the time to slow down their busy lives and seek out the meditative and restorative healing properties that only winter can provide to the human spirit. Filmed in small, rural communities throughout the province of New Brunswick, Winter Warmer positively and harmoniously captures the natural essence and tranquility of a Canadian winter.

Production Organization(s): Flower Power Production Inc.Producer: Lloyd Salomone Director: Johnathan Collicott Photographer: Johnathan Collicott Picture Editor: Johnathan Collicott and Keith BradleyScript Writer: Lloyd Salomone, Johnathan CollicottSound: Starsky StewartEffects Editor: Keith BradleyComposer: Matte Robinson, Cora WoolseyOriginal Format: Super 16mm FilmDistributor: Flower Power Production Inc.Submitted by: Lloyd Salomone


Lloyd Salomone Goodhearted.ca PO Box 431Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada, E3B 4Z9 Email: [email protected]://goodhearted.ca/

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One Degree Matters

Country: DenmarkLanguage: EnglishLength: 57’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Presenting the latest science on climate change, this is an informative and inspirational documentary which offers realistic solutions and gives the reality of global warming a human face, showcasing amazing examples of individuals and communities tackling the world’s environmental problems. The film has been dubbed An Inconvenient Truth, Part 2 by The New York Times. One Degree Matters traces the impact of temperature increases, measuring the slippage of the Greenland ice cap into the Arctic Ocean. The film takes its title from the fact that every degree increase in temperature matters

Production Organization(s): Ace & Ace ProductionsProducer: Eskil HardtDirector: Eskil HardtPhotographer: Eskil Hardt, Esben Hardt and Finn NoerPicture Editor: Adrian BeardNarrator: Richard DerringtonSubmitted by: Eskil HardtDistributor: TVF International


Ace & Ace Productions/ Eskil HardtAddress: Store Kannikestrade 5, 2nd floor1169 Copenhagen, DenmarkTel: +45 [email protected]

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Päivä Merenkurkussa -A day at The Kvarken Area

Country: FinlandLanguage: FinnishLength: 37’Completion date: 2008

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Nature educator Vesa Heinonen guides us through the landscape, the geology and the history of the core area of the UNESCO World heritage site of Kvarken Archipelago. The film displays the fast land uplift phenomena of the Kvarken Archipelago and the effect of the land uplift on the daily life in the area. The footage is made in the village of Björköby 40 km northwest of Vaasa during one sunny summer day in July 2008.

Production Organization(s): VediamoProducer: Roland Wiik Director: Jorma HakalaPhotographer: Roland WiikPicture Editor: Roland WiikScript Writer: Roland WiikSound: Roland WiikNarrator: Jorma HakalaSubmitted by: Roland Wiik, Jorma HakalaDistributor: Vediamo

Award category: Finnish-Nordic, Low Budget

Vediamo ProductionRoland WiikWolffskavägen 36 B F 10Tel. 358 500 269640E-mail: [email protected]

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Trace of Gala

Country: AzerbaijanLanguage: EnglishLength: 21’Completion date: 2009

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The film tells about the original ethnic culture village Gala on its dawn and disappearances…There were more than forty fortresses in the villages surrounding Baku area, but only one, located 25 kilometers to the north-east, was named Fortress (or Gala in Azeribaijani). Why is Gala different from the other villages? Archaeological excavations carried out in the village of Gala show that people lived there even 5 thousand years ago. If we take into account that the Gala is the highest point around Baku and it was frequently attacked by foreign invaders, the name can be understood as a castle…

and a story that is still alive…

Production Organization(s): Salname Film StudioProducer: Boyukagha Mammadov Director: Shamil AliyevPhotographer: Elshan HasanoghluPicture Editor: Elmir HasanovScript Writer: Nadir BadalovSound: Rauf AliyevComposer: Elmir MirzoyevSubmitted by: Shamil AliyevDistributor: Nurfilm Producer Centre, Shamil Aliyev


Salname Film Studio Address: Moscow ave, 1, AZ1012, Baku, AZERBAIJANPhone: +994124310507Fax: +994124310507E-mail: [email protected]

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Grammos, Illusions

Country: GreeceLanguage: EnglishLength: 21’Completion date: 2009

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This film is an itinerancy in Grammos mountain -with the astonishing natural beauty- 60 years after the end of the Greek civil war, where the history is still alive. It crosses the gnarled roads that lead to the ruined villages and reveals how ecology is related to politics. the destroyed

villages and a story that is still alive…

Production Organization(s): Neaniko PlanoProducer: Nikos Theodosiou Director: Nikos TheodosiouPhotographer: Nikos TheodosiouPicture Editor: Nikos TheodosiouScript Writer: Nikos TheodosiouSound: Nikos TheodosiouComposer: Chara ArgyropoulouSubmitted by: Nikos TheodosiouDistributor: Neaniko Plano


Neaniko Plano/Nikos Theodosiou18 Rodos st, 11252 Athens, GreeceTel. +30 210 8664470Fax: +30 210 8662344Email:[email protected]: http://theodosiou.wordpress.com

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Gimmie a Hug

Country: The NetherlandsLanguage: EnglishLength: 13’Completion date: 2008

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Sharks are one of the most important top-predators in our oceans, yet there is still so much we don’t understand, or even know, about these fascinating animals.This short documentary shows one of the most mysterious phenomena in the animal world; amazing animals, showing a totally different behaviour than most people would expect.

Production Organization(s): Protect the Sharks FoundationProducer: Geert Droppers Director: Geert DroppersPhotographer: Geert DroppersPicture Editor: Geert DroppersScript Writer: Geert DroppersSound: Geert DroppersNarrator: Cristina ZenatoComposer: Mark PutzSubmitted by: Geert DroppersDistributor: Protect the Sharks Foundation

Award category: Environmental Conservation, Low Budget, Science

Protect the Sharks Foundation/ Geert DroppersBosmanslaan 90Tel. +31 6 53324359Email: [email protected]: www.protect-the-sharks.org

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Nature’s Greatest Defender

Country: USALanguage: EnglishLength: 50’Completion date: 2009

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Nature’s Greatest Defender tells the story about one man’s passionate fight to save our world. It’s a film about his unwavering dedication to the incredible wildlife that we must continually struggle to protect. George Schaller returns to the sites of some of his iconic studies to see what has happened to some of these extraordinary animals and their habitats. Along the way, we will meet some of the people he influenced and see how they have managed to carry the torch Schaller lit.

Production Organization(s): The Really Interesting Picture Company, LtdProducer: Thomas Veltre & Cathe Neukum Director: Cathe NeukumPhotographer: Ian Kellett, Adrian Warren, Thomas VeltrePicture Editor: Thomas VeltreScript Writer: Thomas Veltre & Cathe Neukum Sound: Thomas Veltre Narrator: Glenn CloseScientific Adviser: George SchallerComposer: Aaron SymondsDistributor: National Geographic Television International Submitted by: Thomas Veltre


Thomas Veltre Organization: The Really Interesting Picture Company, Ltd.Address: 33-21 163rd Street, Flushing NY 11358Phone: +1 (646) 797-3171E-mail: [email protected]: www.thereallyinterestingpicturecompany.com

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Survivors

Country: HungaryLanguage: EnglishLength: 5’Completion date: 2010

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In this fiction film the Earth has suffered huge distruction and only the oceans survived. The underwater scenes tell us the secret how to survive...

Production Organization(s): Zsolt SasdiProducer: Zsolt Sasdi Director: Zsolt SasdiPhotographer: Zsolt SasdiPicture Editor: Zsolt SasdiEffects Editor: Zsolt SasdiScript Writer: Diana Erdosi SasdiNarrator: John IronSubmitted by: Zsolt Sasdi


Zsolt SasdiFaludi F. u 20, Szombathely 9700, HungaryTel. +36 30 9399465Email: [email protected]

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Catfish - Monster in the lake?

Country: GermanyLanguage: EnglishLength: 43’Completion date: 2009

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In 1761, a giant monster is pulled from the Oder River: an 820-pound Wels Catfish, the largest sweet-water fish in Europe. Not just any old fish: Until this day, the Wels Catfish remains a curse, a legend, a myth – as well as a tasty dish and prized catch. In 1979, two river policemen observed a Wels Catfish that was almost as long as their 5 m long vessel. But how much of the stories are fact and how much fancy? There are two men who have devoted their lives to studying the catfish, Europe’s leading expert, Oliver Portrat, and prizewinning underwater cameraman Sigi Braun. To get to the bottom of this mystery, they take us with on a trip from Bavaria to the farthest reaches of Eurasia. The largest animals of its species are found in the pristine Ili Delta in Kazakhstan. But it is also a study in people, the inhabitants of the Wels lakes, the habitants of this giant. Wherever the giants appear, myths, legends and tall tales arise, spinning a web of story and mystery.

Production Organization(s): ARTE/ARDProducer: Udo Zimmermann Director: Florian GuthknechtPhotographer: Volker Tittel, Sigi Braun, Florian Guthknecht, Cristoph CastorPicture Editor: Xenja KupinScript Writer: Florian GuthknechtSound: Michael HeumannNarrator: Gert HeidenreichScientific Adviser: Knut EichstädtComposer: Sebastian PobotDistributor: Telepool, MunichSubmitted by: Florian Guthknecht


Florian GuthknechtBaaderstrasse 25, 80469 München, GermanyPhone: 0049 171 838 23 63Fax: 0049 89 20 20 6338E-mail: [email protected]: www.br-online.de

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The Ice Sculptor

Country: SwitzerlandLanguage: EnglishLength: 40’Completion date: 2010

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The glacier is dying. Like so many others throughout the world, seventy years has seen it lose a third of its majesty. A death throe lasting millennia which wipes away an entire world drop by drop, and leaves a new one in its place. These drops have been carving out the world which surrounds us since time began. They created the Alps, and all the mountain ranges on the planet. They gave us the waterfalls and the caves. They are the springs of life which provide our most essential resource: water. But they are also a source of death and destruction. Their power causes landslides of uncontrollable force.

Production Organization(s): Imagofilm LuganoProducer: Villi HermannCo-producer: RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Luisella Realini Director: Alberto MeroniPhotographer: Ely Riva, Alberto Meroni, Daniele Crimella, Alessandro Barisano, Marvin MartinuzziPicture Editor: Zeno GabaglioScript Writer: Alberto Meroni, Mario FabioSound: Riccardo Studer, Narrator: Norman HewittEffects Editor: Riccardo StuderComposer: Zeno GabaglioSubmitted by: Imagofilm Lugano


Imagofilm SA Viale Cassarate 4 6900 Lugano, Switzerland +41 (0)91 922 68 31 www.imagofilm.ch [email protected]

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The Rich Forest

Country: IsraelLanguage: English Length: 5’Completion date: 2010

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A animated story of an Eurasian Lynx living in the Black Forest, taking place before and during civilization, the instinct of survival, and how one girl handles an unimaginable lost…

Production Organization(s): The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design & EducationProducer: Maor Lavi Director: Maor LaviPicture Editor: Maor LaviScript Writer: Maor LaviSound: Maor LaviNarrator: Evan BellinEffects Editor: Maor LaviComposer: Evan BellinSubmitted by: Maor Lavi

Award category: Short, Low budget, Animation (in Youth film competition)

The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design and Education/ Maor LaviAddress: Halivne 4, POB78, Timart, ISRAEL, 36576Phone: +972.(0)54.625469E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Rich-Forest/623395

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11 Degrees

Country: Germany / Scotland, UKLanguage: EnglishLength: 8’Completion date: 2009

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The documentary follows the development of a skiing season in a Scottish ski resort. It explores the effects the climate change has on the Scottish winters and consequently on the ski resort. Narrated by one of the lift operators, we are introduced to this old fashioned place with its slow pace of life, dominated by the rhythms of the lifts and the machines. Starting at the height of the winter season, the film depicts idyllic scenery which suddenly takes a shift when the temperature rises to 11 Degrees over night. Due to less snowfall and more rain, skiing has become more difficult in Scotland. As such, the documentary focuses on visual metaphors which tell the story of the struggling resort and also explores the people’s passion and enthusiasm to keep skiing alive no matter how difficult the conditions are. The character’s love for skiing and his optimism are intertwined with the images of a changing world. Embedded in the transition of the scenery, the film slowly reveals the challenges and economical problems the communities are facing in these times.

Organization: Edinburgh College of ArtsProducer: Anna Ewert Director: Anna Ewert Photographer: Julian KrubasikPicture Editor: Cate CambellScript Writer: Anna EwertSound: Julian Krubasik, Anna Ewert Composer: Andreas HornSubmitted by: Anna Ewert

Award category: Low Budget Big Impact, (also in Youth Film Competition)

Anna EwertAddress: Bozener Strasse 23, 78052 Villingen, GermanyTel: + 49 772163256Email: [email protected]

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Bark

Country: USALanguage: EnglishLength: 3’Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

Bark is a film made for children and their parents, encouraging all to take time to observe a brief moment within the unfolding history of the natural world. In this particular film, the rich contours and textures found in the bark of a plum tree are on display.

Organization: chance filmsProducer: Mark Larsson Director: Mark LarssonPhotographer: Mark LarssonPicture Editor: Mark LarssonScript Writer: Mark LarssonSound: Bill Mike, Mark LarssonComposer: Bill MikeSubmitted by: Bill Mike


chance films/ Mark Larsson969 Patricia Way, San Jose, CA 95125 USATel.408-952-4525Email: [email protected]: http://fateofinsects.blogspot.com

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Alliens of the Amazon- Ep. 1: Treehoppers

Country: FranceLanguage: EnglishLength: 45’Completion date: 2009

Synopsis The Membracide insect family is roughly unknown to us. However, these neotropical treehoppers are probably the most astonishing creatures ever concocted by Nature! Some people view them as nothing more than miniature aliens; others consider them to be true masterpieces of biodiversity. In either case, with their weird and wonderful shapes, they are a source of bewilderment for the scientific community. Be it a whim of Nature or an extreme case of mimicry, with their impressive forehead protrusions, they look like living sculptures. They resemble something straight out of a Sci-Fi movie, and yet they are well and truly real – tactile inhabitants of the treetops and the various strata of the tropical rainforests.The Aliens of the Amazon team has sought out these mysterious insects, accomplishing the first ever scientific documentary dedicated to them. Equipped with state-of-the-art imagery gear, a group of researchers embarking on an expedition in Ecuador has revealed the infinitely strange, observed the hitherto unseen, listened to the most outlandish of sounds and elucidated previously-unexplained entomological mysteries.

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production, Break Through Films / CBC, Arte, Sciene ChannelProducer: Thierry Berrod Director: Quincy Russell Photographer: Quincy Russell Picture Editor: Quincy Russell Script Writer: Thierry Berrod, Patrick Landmann, Yves Paccalet, Quincy Russell Sound: Thomas GuytardNarrator: Molly Mc DanielEffects Editor: Damien SteckScientific Adviser: Stuart Mc KameyComposer: Gilbert Grilli/ Cadesky Dyer MusicDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent


Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent Address : 3 et 4 Place Chazette 69001 Lyon FRANCE Tél : +33 4 78 39 04 04 Fax : +33 4 78 29 09 47 Email : [email protected]: http://www.monalisa-prod.com

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Alliens of the Amazon- Ep. 2: Secret Alliance


Synopsis The Membracide insect family is roughly unknown to us. However, these neotropical treehoppers are probably the most astonishing creatures ever concocted by Nature! Some people view them as nothing more than miniature aliens; others consider them to be true masterpieces of biodiversity. In either case, with their weird and wonderful shapes, they are a source of bewilderment for the scientific community. Be it a whim of Nature or an extreme case of mimicry, with their impressive forehead protrusions, they look like living sculptures. They resemble something straight out of a Sci-Fi movie, and yet they are well and truly real – tactile inhabitants of the treetops and the various strata of the tropical rainforests. The Aliens of the Amazon team has sought out these mysterious insects, accomplishing the first ever scientific documentary dedicated to them. Equipped with state-of-the-art imagery gear, a group of researchers embarking on an expedition in Ecuador has revealed the infinitely strange, observed the hitherto unseen, listened to the most outlandish of sounds and elucidated previously-unexplained entomological mysteries.

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production, Break Through Films / CBC, Arte, Sciene ChannelProducer: Thierry Berrod Director: Quincy Russell Photographer: Quincy Russell Picture Editor: Quincy Russell Script Writer: Thierry Berrod, Patrick Landmann, Yves Paccalet, Quincy Russell Sound: Thomas GuytardNarrator: Molly Mc DanielEffects Editor: Damien SteckScientific Adviser: Stuart Mc KameyComposer: Gilbert Grilli/ Cadesky Dyer MusicDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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The Revolution of the Throne


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The average 70 year old person will have spent approximately 6 months on the toilet. Double if they’re constipated. But despite its importance, toilets and what goes in them remain taboo !So for those of a delicate disposition we’ll adopt code names… The toilet is the Throne, it’s fragrant contents, the Rose.Our journey begins with the seats of the Roman Empire, followed by royal thrones and state of the art Japanese creations. Although London is the birthplace of the modern throne, today the flushing toilet is an ecological time bomb. In India, new modern sewers abound. And the untouchables, the humble rose gathering caste, are re-training. Another revolution of the throne is taking place. Where will you leave your roses in the future?

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production Producer: Thierry Berrod Director: Quincy Russell Photographer: Quincy Russell, Jean-Pierre Rivalain Picture Editor: Quincy Russell Script Writer: Thierry Berrod, Quincy Russell Sound: Quincy Russell Narrator: Alexander LaubeEffects Editor: Stephane LefortComposer: Gilbert GrilliDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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Holy Dung


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A single cow can eliminate 65,000 liters of dung every year. It shows just how important pooping is in the life of a cow. Dung, poop, manure, droppings, crap, turd… Despite this colorful vocabulary, animal faces are a rather icky, not a popular topic of conversation…So whenever possible, we will use a perfumed code name: the Rose. In the animal world, the rose is not just a floral tribute to yesterday’s lunch. It can attract food, and even tells you who’s in town…But humans too have a good nose for using this precious substance. And humans have discovered a multitude of functions for our floral friends. Fertilizers, building material, soap, beauty products, coffee…, there seems to be no limit to their use. So join us on this trip to discover their bouquet…

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production Producer: Thierry Berrod Director: Quincy Russell Photographer: Quincy Russell, Jean-Pierre Rivalain Picture Editor: Quincy Russell Script Writer: Thierry Berrod, Quincy Russell Sound: Quincy Russell Narrator: Alexander LaubeEffects Editor: Stephane Lefort, Damien SteckComposer: Gilbert GrilliDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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BEES EXTINCION, SOLVING THE MYSTERY


Synopsis An acute analysis of an international alarming phenomenon, this gripping film is conceived like a police investigation, aiming at unfolding a criminal mystery. Here, the inquiry is about the bees that are vanishing from the face of the planet. It is a spreading disaster, first spotted November 2006 in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Poland, UK and France. Losses sometimes reach 90% of a beehive population. In a world where a 153 billion dollars share of agriculture depends on bees to pollinate, the food industry is starting to worry. From witness to witness, viewers collect and assemble the first pieces of information. Every scenario is examined in an attempt at understanding the phenomenon. Is it the Varroa (an acarid), the Nosema (a fungus), a virus, the pesticides, the impoverishment of the floral areas, the beekeeper’s methods, the magnetic waves? As the investigation continues, renowned scientists from all around the world (USA, Switzerland, France and Germany) are invited to answer these questions and clarify this obscure situation.

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production Producer: Thierry Berrod Director: Natacha CalestremePhotographer: Serge Pirodeau, Vincent Fooy, Quincy Russell Picture Editor: Michel PignardScript Writer: Natacha Calestreme / Gilles LuneauSound: Christophe Foulon, Florent BlanchardNarrator: Alexander LaubeComposer: Jackson MackayDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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Sentinel Animals- Warning! Earthquake


Synopsis Certain species of animals have astonishing physiological responses to pollution or to the announcement of an imminent natural disaster. Their instincts and physiologies, their proximity to nature, make them our allies in the prevention of natural and industrial risks that threaten our Earth. In Japan, people are convinced that the great Kanto earthquake that ravaged Tokyo in 1923 causing 140,000 deaths will soon be repeated. So, in addition to the regular training sessions offered to the public, certain scientists are hoping that their studies of animal behaviors will result in lives being saved. Preventing the disaster is impossible, but knowing how to decipher the signals given by animals remains one possible means of warning the population of an imminent earthquake. From Professor Ohta’s dog-cloning project to the EQ-sign, the first earthquake detector directly inspired by animal behavior, not forgetting Professor Nagao’s studies of the catfish, all potential solutions are examined. In China, the warning signals that animals can transmit before an earthquake are well recognized.

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production Producer: Thierry Berrod Director: Kamel KezadriPhotographer: Vincent Fooy, Jean-Pierre Rivalain Picture Editor: Ann-Sophie de Brauer Script Writer: Thierry Berrod, Cyrille Harpet, Kamel KezadriSound: Kamel KezadriNarrator: Alexander LaubeEffects Editor: Gerard BernasconiScientific Adviser: Cyrille HarpetComposer: Gilbert GrilliDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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Sentinel Animals- Warning! Tsunami


Synopsis With 175,000 dead and 125,000 missing, the tsunami of 26 December 2004 in the Indian Ocean is engraved in human memories. But after the disaster, very few animal victims were found. What happened before the tsunami? Were the animals able to sense the arrival of the killer wave? In that case, why were humans so unaware of the signals? Deep-sea fish seen in shallow waters; elephants that felt the vibrations several hours before the arrival of the wave; tourists saved by elephants in Thailand, visitors alerted by birds in the Yala National Park in Sri Lanka; hundreds of witnesses in Thailand and Sri Lanka who reported disturbing animals behaviors before the tsunami. Did the animals really sense the impending disaster? Why then were certain marine species such as turtles trapped and swept inland? Why did elephants being tracked by satellite at the same moment on the south coast of Sri Lanka not react?

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production Producer: Thierry Berrod Director: Kamel KezadriPhotographer: Jean-Pierre Rivalain, Vincent Fooy Picture Editor: Ann-Sophie de Brauer Script Writer: Thierry Berrod, Cyrille Harpet, Kamel KezadriSound: Kamel KezadriNarrator: Alexander LaubeEffects Editor: Gerard BernasconiScientific Adviser: Cyrille HarpetComposer: Gilbert GrilliDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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Sentinel Animals- Warning! Air Pollution


Synopsis From plants to animals, a multitude of living organisms are being studied by scientists trying to gain a better understanding of atmospheric pollution. More than a century ago, the canary, used by miners, demonstrated its extreme sensitivity to gas in coal mines. Today, lichens, mosses, birds of prey and cattle are the focus of highly advanced research projects being carried out by the scientific community worldwide. But the effects on ecosystems and human health are already dramatic. In the Netherlands, researchers such as Professor Marcel Visser emphasize the impact of global warming, which is disrupting food web cohesion and contributing to the imminent extinction of migratory birds such as the flycatcher. In France, researchers at the French national research agencies, INRA and CNRS, are using bees as sentinels for urban pollution; in Spain, Dr. Marta Lopez Alonso has proven, through her experiments with cows and dogs, the extreme toxicity of coal-burning thermal power plants. In the United States, homing pigeons equipped with GPS systems and cameras transmit information to scientists on the level of air pollution in major Californian cities. Found in the natural biotope or used as a means of monitoring, sentinel organisms for air pollution contribute to the evaluation and prevention of toxic risks.

Production Organization(s): Mona Lisa Production Producer: Thierry Berrod Director: Kamel KezadriPhotographer: Jean-Pierre Rivalain, Vincent Fooy Picture Editor: Stephane LefortScript Writer: Thierry Berrod, Cyrille Harpet, Kamel KezadriSound: Kamel KezadriNarrator: Alexander LaubeEffects Editor: Stephane Lefort, Gerard BernasconiScientific Adviser: Cyrille HarpetComposer: Gilbert GrilliDistributor: Mona Lisa ProductionSubmitted by: Mona Lisa Production/Pierre Cressent



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The Soul of Water

Country: SwedenLanguage: EnglishLength: 57’Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

We live on a water planet and each single drop of water bellies a world of remarkable abilities.Water is a very simple substance but the small water molecule carries properties that seem designed to fit perfectly into the requirements of life. And water never rests, it has an ongoing movement. From a very personal point of view the film deals with water from different perspectives; From the structure of the water molecule to waterways in the landscape, from micro cosmos to macro cosmos, from the scientific perspective to an emotional, poetic perspective.

Production Organization(s): Dynamo Film ABProducer: Kurt Skoog Director: Kurt Skoog Photographer: Kurt Skoog Picture Editor: Kurt Skoog Script Writer: Kurt Skoog Sound: Kurt Skoog Narrator: Jonathan MairComposer: Mats SundinDistributor: Dynamo Film ABSubmitted by: Dynamo Film AB

Award category: Science, Nordic

Dynamo Film ABÅsan 130, 830 22 Fåker SwedenTel. +46 63 7010755, +46 70 324 3083Email: [email protected] Web: www.dynamofilm.se

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Bama and the lost Gorillas

Country: GermanyLanguage: EnglishLength: 45 min Completion date: 2010

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Alfred Bama, an animal keeper from Cameroon, has an extraordinary connection with gorillas. He takes care of them at the Limbe Wildlife Centre, a sanctuary for orphaned primates. Loved and respected by all of his gorillas, he has a close relationship to Nyango, a Cross River gorilla, the world’s most endangered great ape. The film follows Bama on his quest to the last of Nyango’s wild relatives. It tells the story about an outstanding friendship and shows the first TV pictures of Cross River gorillas ever taken in the wild.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmProducer: Jörn Röver Director: Ernst Sasse & Nicky LankesterPhotographer: Hans-Peter Kuttler, Ernst Sasse Picture Editor: Klaus Müller Script Writer: Ernst Sasse & Nicky Lankester Narrator: Rob QuirkComposer: Klaus HillebrechtDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska


Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm/Jörn Röver Address: Jenfelder Allee 80, 22039 Hamburg, GermanyPhone:+49 – 40 6688 5147Fax: +49 – 40 6688 5166E-mail:[email protected]: http://www.studio-hamburg.de

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Wild Japan


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Japan – a land of extremes in the shadow of mighty volcanos - extends over more than 3000 kilometres from the icy world of Hokkaido in the North to the subtropical islands of Okinawa in the South. Crowded cities collide with surprisingly unspoiled nature. Animals have adapted to these conditions: Snow monkeys use hot springs, brown bears show their offspring how to hunt for salmon. Japan is also home to many rare creatures such as the giant salamander, the Manchurian crane and the Blakiston’s Fish-owl. Unique wildlife, some behaviour has never been filmed before, makes Wild Japan an unforgettable journey.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmProducer: Jörn Röver Co-Producer(s): Arte/ ORF/National Geographic International /Parthenon Director: Thoralf Grospitz & Jens WestphalenPhotographer: Thoralf Grospitz & Jens WestphalenPicture Editor: Mario SchöpplerScript Writer: Thoralf Grospitz & Jens WestphalenNarrator: Rob QuirkComposer: Klaus HillebrechtDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska



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Ocean Stories –The Giant & The Phantom


Synopsis

Sperm whales are the largest carnivores on earth, hunters of the oceans. Although ancient Greeks knew about their existence, sperm whales in the Mediterranean were forgotten for more than two thousand years. Only in the 1990ies they were rediscovered. The Greek scientist Alexandros Frantzis has monitored the isolated population for more than ten years. The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the most endangered mammals on Earth. Very little is known about the elusive seals - Greek scientist Vassilis Kouroutos is one of the few who knows the way to the hidden caves where the monk seals give birth.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmProducer: Jörn Röver Director: Heiko de Groot & Christina KarliczekPhotographers:Christina Karliczek, Thomas Behrend, Tobias Kaufmann, AlexandrosFrantzis, Yiannis Issaris, Hans Fischer Picture Editor: Christina Karliczek, Iryna Tietje, Mario SchöpplerScript Writer: Thomas Behrend, Heiko de Groot, Hilmar RathjenNarrator: Ben PosenerComposer: Vince Bahrdt, Andreas Dicke & Thomas OnderkaDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska



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Wild Russia – The Arctic


Synopsis

In the series “Wild Russia” we take you on a journey which explores the nature of the mighty state between the Black Sea and Pacific Ocean. This episode leads us to the Russian Arctic. Russia has more Arctic areas than any other country - the endless Ice deserts and tundra lead from the White Sea on the border to Finland right over to Chukotka in the far northeast close to the Bering passage, just a stone throw away from Alaska. It is here where the Wrangel Island lies. Great groups of Polar bears assemble in summer to await the arrival of the Walruses.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmCo-Producer(s): WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic Producer: Jörn Röver Director: Uwe AndersPhotographers: Uwe Anders, Tobias Mennle, Thomas Behrend Picture Editor: Mario SchöpplerScript Writer: Uwe AndersNarrator: Clifford Wells Composer: Kolja ErdmannDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska

Award category: Natural History, Nordic


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Wild Russia – The Far East (Ussuriland)


Synopsis

In the series “Wild Russia” we take you on a journey which explores the nature of the mighty state between the Black Sea and Pacific Ocean. This episode leads us to Russia’s far East. A craggy land of water and ice, with soft, forest-covered slopes and a rugged steep coast - this is Ussuriland, the territory of the Amur tiger. Here, in Russia’s far East, the greatest landmass of the world borders on the Pacific Ocean. The coastal landscape presents itself in an exotic, Asian splendor. The Khanka lake is the world’s largest biotope of the aquatic plant and it is home to an extraordinary reptile - the Chinese soft-shelled turtle.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmCo-Producer(s):WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic Producer: Jörn Röver Director: Henry M. MixPhotographers: Henry M. Mix, Anatoly Ryzhov, Aleksandr Ratnikoy, Uwe Anders, Ivo Nörenberg, Vasily Solkin,Norbert SchneeweissPicture Editor: Maria HemmlebScript Writer: Henry M. Mix Narrator: Clifford WellsComposer: Kolja ErdmannDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska



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Wild Russia - Kamchatka


Synopsis

In the series “Wild Russia” we take you on a journey which explores the nature of the mighty state between the Black Sea and Pacific Ocean. This episode introduces the viewer to the peninsula Kamchatka, where fire-spitting volcanoes reign over Heaven and Earth. Here, the earth is still young and unsure of itself, and nature, like an unsatisfied artist, constantly destroys and remakes its canvas again and again in a dramatic circle of creation and destruction. 20 different climatic zones blend into each other: Volcanic vents smoke next to glaciers, meters high snowdrifts lie side by side with boiling hot geysers.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmCo-Producer(s): WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic Producer: Jörn Röver Director: Christian BaumeisterPhotographers: Christian BaumeisterPicture Editor: Klaus Müller, Katrin DückerScript Writer: Christian BaumeisterSound: Yann SochaczewskiNarrator: Clifford WellsComposer: Kolja ErdmannDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska



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Wild Russia – Siberia


Synopsis

In the series “Wild Russia” we take you on a journey which explores the nature of the mighty state between the Black Sea and Pacific Ocean. This episode leads the viewer into an expansive wilderness in the heart of Russia, where the cold rules with a chilly hand - this is Siberia. Lying beyond the Ural Mountains, Siberia encompasses roughly ten percent of our planet’s landmass. There is no doubt that this is a land of superlatives: huge fluctuations in temperatures - about 80 degrees, the world’s biggest lake and probably the most resilient animals on Earth.

Production Organization: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmCo-Producer(s):WDR/ S4C/ Animal Planet/ National Geographic Producer: Jörn Röver Director: Tobias MennlePhotographer: Tobias MennlePicture Editor: Maria Hemmleb, Ulrich SkalickyScript Writer: Tobias MennleSound: Tobias MennleNarrator: Clifford WellsComposer: Kolja ErdmannDistributor: Studio Hamburg DocLights NaturfilmSubmitted by: Kaja Galonska



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Metamorphosis Papilionum

Country: FranceLanguage: EnglishLength: 5 min Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

This short film, “Metamorphosis papilionum”, is about European butterflies and moths which are smaller than tropical butterflies and moths, but equally beautiful in color. This is the story of their lives from the egg to the final stage of the metamorphosis. The butterflies play a very important role in the pollination of flowers. Caterpillars, butterflies and moths are a part of the food chain. Their special existence is very important in the balance of nature. Hopefully this film will portray the importance of this extraordinary expression of nature which has such an ephemeral life.

Production Organization(s): Yves Lanceau & Nathalie TruchetProducer: Yves Lanceau & Nathalie TruchetDirector: Yves Lanceau & Nathalie TruchetPhotographer: Yves Lanceau & Nathalie TruchetPicture Editor: Benjamin FatrasSound: Matthieu RibunScript Writer: Catherine ThoravalNarrator: Tony PaganoScientific Adviser: Yves LanceauMusic Composer: Tony (Anthony James) Pagano


Yves Lanceau & Nathalie TruchetAddress: Les Hauts De Gauchere – 41210 – Montrieux En Sologne - FrancePhone: + 33 254837148E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.lanceau.com

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100 Year of Bird Ringing

Country: HungaryLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 26 min Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Bird migration, one of the most spectacular natural phenomena, has always intrigued people. During human history, several accurate observations and – often mistaken – conclusions have been written down about the migration of birds.Some believed that cuckoos transformed into sparrow-hawks and redstarts turned into robins in the autumn. Others reasoned that birds spent the winter on the Moon. Where do migratory birds disappear in the autumn so that they can reappear in the spring just as fast as they left? Hungary was the first country in the world where bird ringing took place on a national scale in 1908

Production Organization(s): Szabolcs MosonyiProducer: Szabolcs MosonyiDirector: Szabolcs MosonyiPhotographer: Szabolcs MosonyiPicture Editor: Szabolcs MosonyiNarrator: Gabor VassMusic Composer: Szabolcs Mosonyi


Szabolcs MosonyiAddress: 2464 Gyúró, Petőfi S. u. 64. HungaryTelephon: +36-30-8554018E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.szmosonyi.hu

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Returning to Bharatpur

Country: HungaryLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 36 min Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

There is a place in India, where man and nature created a unique treasure. The former hunting ground of the maharaja of Bharatpur has become a birds’ paradise in a mere 100 years. However, it has turned out recently that this treasure is more fragile than it was previously thought. Szabolcs Mosonyi -Hungarian wildlife filmakker- visits the area to show us what has been changed in the last two decades since his first visit in 1992.

Production Organization(s): Szabolcs MosonyiProducer: Szabolcs MosonyiDirector: Szabolcs MosonyiPhotographer: Szabolcs MosonyiPicture Editor: Szabolcs MosonyiNarrator: Gabor VassMusic Composer: Szabolcs Mosonyi

Award category: Natural History, Low budget

Szabolcs MosonyiAddress: 2464 Gyúró, Petőfi S. u. 64. HungaryTelephon: +36-30-8554018E-mail: [email protected]: www.szmosonyi.hu

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The Fly Ash Solution

Country: India Language: EnglishLength: 16minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

Thermal power is the most common form of electricity production all over the world. In this way, coal is burnt to generate steam to drive turbine producing electricity in return. This process however produces the ‘fly ash’ which is responsible for air and water pollution. But the same “FLY ASH” is a great resource for construction material if it is properly recycled. The use of fly ash in construction industry reduces cement use, reduces construction cost increases durability and strength of the structure and recycles fly ash – that is waste put to best use. The film describes a Fly Ash recycling solution. Dirk India (Fly ash recycling plant in Nashik) is considered as an example.

Production Organization(s): Yash CommunicationProducer: Jagdish KulkarniDirector: Jagdish KulkarniPhotographer: Jagdish KulkarniPicture Editor: Sheshgiri ChikerurSound: Prashant PanchbhaiScript Writer: Prafulla Chikerur, Jagdish KulkarniNarrator: Shilpa BhendeEffects Editor: Sheshgiri ChikerurScientific Adviser: Georg DirkMusic Composer: Prashant Panchbhai

Award category: Science, Environmenral Conservation, Low budget

Yash CommunicationAddress: 7, Vishvanath Park, C Ayodhya colony, Nashik 422013, INDIAPhone: +91-9890961576Fax: +91-253-2583158E-mail: [email protected]: www.sanskrutivaibhav.org

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Neighbours

Country: Belarus Language: MusicLength: 3 minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

This music clip depicts the acquaintance and relationship between the inhabitants of the Belarusian forests and their wonderful neighbours.

Production Organization(s): Siarhei MakhauProducer: Siarhei MakhauDirector: Siarhei MakhauPhotographer: Siarhei Makhau, Gennadiy Shceglov, Konstantin Knutov, Vyacheslav SolovievPicture Editor: Siarhei MakhauSound: Siarhei MakhauScript Writer: Siarhei MakhauMusic Composer: B. Potiomkin

Award category: Short, Low budget, Environmental Conservation

Siarhei MakhauSmolenskaya 5-3-17, Vitebsk, Republic of BelarusTel. +375297100507E-mail: [email protected] , [email protected]

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Uncertain Fate

Country: IndiaLanguage: EnglishLength: 23 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

Sahyadri mountain ranges are life line supporters for about 200 million Indians along southern India. People depend for natural resources for survival, But the ecological distress arising out of human intervention like desertification, loss of bio diversity, exceeding dependency, all are creating chaotic situation. However, few dedicated individuals are putting organized efforts to survive Sahyadri mountain ranges.

Production Organization(s): Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit JoshiProducer: Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit JoshiDirector: Santosh DeodharPhotographer: Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit JoshiPicture Editor: Santosh DeodharSound: Prabha Studio, DombivaliScript Writer: Madhuwanti GadgilNarrator: Sandesh MhatreEffects Editor: Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit JoshiScientific Adviser: Dr Madhukar BachulkarMusic Composer: Jagdish Patil, Abhijit JoshiDistributor: Santosh Deodhar, Abhijit Joshi

Award category: Short, Low budget, Environmental Conservation

Santosh DeodharAddress: Archana 105 B, Ambika Nagar, M G Road, Dombivali[West] 421202 IndiaPhone: +91 9820932248E-mail: [email protected]

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The Future, at What Price?

Country: FranceLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 52 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

If we want to avoid the climate catastrophe, we need to urgently cut planetary CO2 emissions by half. Unfortunately the experts are predicting that global energy consumption will double in 2050. Reasonable energy consumption is the only concrete solution. All other options are nothing but illusions for those blinded by reality. Can the carbon trading market give rise to this environmental revolution or is it an ideal opportunity for ‘greening’ reckless speculators. Can fiscal constraints such as the carbon tax put the brakes on the aberrant growth in global trade provoked by trend for labor outsourcing and the nearly free cost of transporting goods? The price that we give to carbon is that of our future… Our children’s future.

Production Organization(s): Mécanos ProductionsProducer: Jean-Michel RodrigoDirector: David MartinPhotographer: Maxime SoulardPicture Editor: Franck LeplatSound: Alexandre AssadourianMusic Composer: Alexandre AssadourianDistributor: Achille Coenegracht, [email protected]


Mécanos ProductionsAddress: 40 rue des Blancs Manteaux 75004 ParisPhone: 33 1 42 76 00 46Fax: 33 1 42 76 00 68E-mail: [email protected]: www.mecanosprod.com

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Forest Pond-Home of the red-throated diver

Country: FinlandLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 28 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

There are two spieces of the diver bird family nexting in Finland and the red-throated diver is the smaller of the two. The red-throated diver as well as the black throated diver has always been associated with powerful legends and beliefs as often as the common golden-eye of the Kalevala epic of the raven. The red-throated diver has even been considered as harbinger of death..Remote and quiet forest ponds are an essential requirement for the red-throated diver’s succesful nesting. These habitats also provide a home to many other animals and plants, thus promoting the natural diversity in an important way. Should forest ponds eventually disappear, a unique slice of Finnish nature and traditional scenery will be lost.

Production Organization(s): Blue Moment MediaProducer: Sami LehtoniemiDirector: Sami LehtoniemiPhotographer: Sami LehtoniemiPicture Editor: Sami LehtoniemiScript writer: Sami LehtoniemiSound: Panu LehtoniemiMusic Composer: Sami LehtoniemiDistributor: Blue Moment Media

Award category: Low Budget, Natural History, Finnish

Blue Moment Media/Sami LehtoniemiAddress: Kuorttilantie, 37830 Viiala, FinlandTel +358 44 270 8434E-mail: [email protected]

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The Journey to the Source of Lena

Country: EstoniaLanguage: EnglishLength: 45 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis Deep in the taiga, where humans are rare sight lies the begining of Siberia’s giant river, the Lena. The taiga surrounding the Lena’a source is like an ocean-endless, immeasurable and dangerous. But it’s also a habitat to many forest dwellers, who go around with their lives and call it home. The taiga also opens itself up to people who know and respect the laws of the forest. This film is about the mysterious beginning of the Lena River, its rapids and dark ancient woods.

Production Organization(s): OY VesilindProducer: Riho Västrik Director: Vasili SaranaPhotographer: Vasili Sarana, Arvo Vilu, Joosep MatjusPicture Editor: Liina TrishkinaEffects Editor: Renee KelomeesScript writer: Vasili SaranaSound: Seppo VanhataloNarrator: Scott DielMusic Composer: Seppo VanhataloDistributor: OY Vesilind


OY Vesilind/Riho Västrik Tartu mnt. 51-1710115 TallinnEstoniaph. +372-5078067fax:+372-6009975e-mail: [email protected]: www.vesilind.ee

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Old Man and The Moose

Country: EstoniaLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 36 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

Seventy seven years old Harri Pöldsam has been studying the moose and its inner nature for more than 30 years. Through all this time, a particular wetland has caught his attention more than all the others - that’s the one where the moose gather annually for their courtship rituals. The “moose man” knows this sedge meadow like the back of his own hand and for Harri moving around with the moose on the wetland, where he converses with them in the “moose language”, has become a ritual of sorts.

Production Organization(s): OY VesilindProducer: Riho Västrik Director: Joosep MatjusPhotographer: Joosep MatjusPicture Editor: Katri RannastuScript writer: Joosep MatjusSound: Horret Kuus Narrator: Aarne UkskulaScientific Adviser: Harri PöldsamMusic Composer: Sven GrunbergDistributor: OY Vesilind


OY Vesilind/Riho Västrik Tartu mnt. 51-1710115 TallinnEstoniaph. +372-5078067fax:+372-6009975e-mail: [email protected]: www.vesilind.ee

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Crocs of Katuma

Country: The Netherlands/TanzaniaLanguage: English Length: 47 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

The remote floodplains of Katavi National Park in the far west corner of Tanzania teem with incredible numbers of wildlife. All the animals in the park depend on the Katuma River and its flood plains for their survival. But during the dry season the Katuma River dries out and pools of mud are the only visible evidence that a river once filled the dry riverbeds. In the quickly disappearing mud pools catfish, hippo’s and crocodiles compete for the last space to escape the heat of the equator sun.

Production Organization(s): Nature Conservation Films (NCF)Producer: Evert van den Bos, Marjolein DuermeijerDirector: Jochem van Rijs Picture Editor: Alan MillerScript writer: Gary ParkerSound: Basil KessyNarrator: Simon Shrimpton SmithMusic Composer: Audio Network


Nature Conservation Films World Wide Address: Torenlaan 1c, 1251 HE Laren (close to Hilversum) The NetherlandsTel.: +31(0) 35 - 646.93.94 Fax: +31(0) 35 - 683.98.31Email: [email protected]: www. ncf-nl.com

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Cheetahs; against all odds

Country: The Netherlands/TanzaniaLanguage: English Length: 50 minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

In the Serengeti, cheetahs live uneasy lives. Females with cubs must hunt. Left alone, their offspring are exposed to the savagery of more powerful predators. Even scavengers can gain the upper hand over this slender feline built for speed. Cheetahs are the fastest-but also the most vulnerable of the big cats. In this film we follow two cheetah mothers, both with varying fortunes that raise their families against all the odds. Does experience count or are they both at the mercy of Lady Luck…

Production Organization(s): Nature Conservation Films (NCF)Producer: Marjolein Duermeijer, Jochem van Rijs Director: Alan MillerPicture Editor: Alan MillerScript writer: Gary ParkerNarrator: Simon Shrimpton SmithMusic Composer: Audio Network


Nature Conservation Films World Wide Address: Torenlaan 1c, 1251 HE Laren (close to Hilversum) The NetherlandsTel.: +31(0) 35 - 646.93.94 Fax: +31(0) 35 - 683.98.31Email: [email protected]

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Wild Dog Island

Country: The Netherlands/ZimbabweLanguage: English Length: 47 minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

Wild Dog Island is a story featuring large-than-life characters, both human and animal. It’s set on an island paradise in a far off country and stars a number of hungry hunters who will stop at nothing. Located in the baking Zimbabwean bushland it follows the footsteps of two researchers united by their passion to save one of the least known animals in the world, the African wild dog. Peter and Jealous are going to set up a unique experiment. They want to give six orphaned dogs a chance to experience paradise

Production Organization(s): Nature Conservation Films (NCF)Producer: Evert van der Bos, Marjolein DuermeijerDirector: Marjolein DuermeijerSound: Audio Network PLCPicture Editor: Alan MillerScript writer: Alan Miller, Marjolein DuermeijerNarrator: Simon Shrimpton Smith



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Saved by the Lioness

Country: The NetherlandsLanguage: English Length: 50 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

The great wildebeest migration throughout Tanzania’s famous Serengeti national park is a phenomenal event and one of all time natural greats. In this film we will follow a young wildebeest growing up in this stunning African scenery. Immediately after birth she has lost her mother and wanders alone. Like a miracle she is adopted by two lionesses. They stay with the young and look after her until she finds her mother…A story about trust, luck, desperation and survival. An unforgettable adventure.

Production Organization(s): Nature Conservation Films (NCF)Producer: Evert van der BosDirector: Marjolein DuermeijerPicture Editor: Alan MillerScript writer: Gary ParkerNarrator: Simon Shrimpton SmithMusic Composer: Audio-PLC



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Raw material is raw material

Country: NorwayLanguage: English subtitles Length: 14 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

What happens when plastic, metal, cardboard and paper has served their purpose as packaging and wrappings for different goods? Should they just go to be disposed on a waste tip? The main characters in “Raw material is raw material” are flying milk cartons, lurking butter containers, rolling jam jars and mackerel-in-tomatoes’ tin boxes that knows what they want. We follow them on their strenuous journey from packaging product to new raw material, ready for a new life as a new product.

Production Organization(s): The Loop Foundation, Snöball Film ASProducer: Hilde Holmesland & Pål KarlsenDirector: Bår TyrmiPhotographer: Joachim Foss RønningPicture Editor: Dag Mykland Script Writer: Bår TyrmiEffects Editor: Rune SeljetunScientific Adviser: Nancy Sand Music Composer: (Music Library)Distributor: The Loop Foundation (www.loop.no)

Award category: Short, Environmental Conservation, Nordic

The Loop Foundation/ Nancy Sand Address: Karenslyst allé 9A, N-0278 Oslo, NorwayPhone: +47 2327 2232 / 047 916 01 901E-mail: [email protected]: www.loop.no

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Ravens - Rascals Of The Skies

Country: GermanyLanguage: English Length: 52 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

Hardly any other group of birds has been the source of such intense and contradictory interest to humans as the members of the raven family. That interest has continued from long ago, back when the Germanic tribes were at their strongest, to the present day. The film immerses us in the world of the indigenous ravens and sets off on a journey through time, traveling from the Alps to the North Sea. The birds are all unusually curious and intelligent, ravens being the only birds that not only use tools, but produce them themselves. Many of them live in fixed social structures and remain faithful to their partners for life. They all make particularly good parents.The film offers new and fascinating insights to the world of these birds.In HD format, this production takes viewers on a colorful journey through the world of these highly intelligent, and all too frequently misunderstood and misinterpreted, family of indigenous birds.

Production Organization(s): ARTE, HR & corvusFilmProducer: corvusFilmDirector: Heribert SchöllerPhotographer: Heribert SchöllerPicture Editor: Julie WangSound: Heribert SchöllerScript Writer: Heribert SchöllerNarrator: Josef Tratnik (german); Jo Rippier (english)Effects Editor: Chiara MüllerScientific Adviser: div. scientists in Germany and AustriaMusic Composer: Hannes GillDistributor: Studio Hamburg Distributions & MarketingSubmitted by: corvusFilm/Heribert Schöller


corvusFilm/ Dr. Heribert SchöllerAddress: Am Burgberg 6,Braunfels, 35619, GermanyPhone: +49 170 5519172 and +49 6442 954058E-mail: [email protected]: www.corvusFilm.de

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Escaping in to the real life (Pako elämään)

Country: FinlandLanguage: FinnishLength: 98minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

A voice of collective conscience wakes up a Finnish artist living in Paris; even a single person can have an effect on the future of the world. The distressed artist looses his creativity and makes the ultimate personal decision. He moves in to the wilderness of Inari for a year and learns simple life, getting along on the terms of nature. The circle of the year in the wilderness gives an internal peace to his restless soul. And man has found his way – way home.

Production Organization(s): Videosara TmiProducer: Arttu KotisaraDirector: Arttu KotisaraPhotographer: Arttu Kotisara, Rauno SahimaaPicture Editor: Arttu KotisaraSound: Arttu KotisaraScript Writer: Arttu KotisaraNarrator: Rudolf Pajatie (in Finnish version)Effects Editor: Arttu KotisaraMusic Composer: Riitta KotisaraDistributor: Videosara and FatBird OySubmitted by: Arttu Kotisara

Award category:

Videosara Tmi/ Arttu Kotisara Address: Salmenkuja 53 44610 Kärnä, FinlandPhone: +358 400-229739E-mail: [email protected]: www.videosara.fi

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The Kingdom of the Bee Hummingbird – Cuba’s Eastern Nature Preserve: The Humboldt National Park

Country: Germany/CubaLanguage: English Length: 60 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

Cuba’s fauna has many dwarfs and few giants. The bee hummingbird – only 2.25 inches long – is the smallest bird in the world. In spring the male twitters incessantly from the uppermost branch of his territory: he wants to impress the females and keep away rivals. Before the Cuban Revolution only 14 per cent of the island was covered with trees. Today around 25 per cent is dedicated to forests. More than 80 nature preserves have been created since 1959. The Humboldt National Park in Cuba’s East has unique mountainous cloud forests, plateaus, rivers, mangrove swamps, coastal forests and coral reefs.

Production Organization(s): Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)Producer: Monika SeiffertDirector: Cornelia VolkPhotographer: Oliver JähnelPicture Editor: Dietmar KäfertSound: Frank ScheuflerScript Writer: Cornelia VolkNarrator:Hans Hendrik WöhlerDistributor: Telepool GmbH MünchenSubmitted by: Cornelia Volk

Award category: Environmental conservation

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk/ Monika SeiffertAddress: Kantstraße 71-73, 04360 Leipzig, GermanyPhone: +49-341-3004339Fax: +49-341-3004365E-mail: [email protected]: www.mdr.de/tiere

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Vrana Lake Nature Park

Country: CroatiaLanguage: EnglishLength: 29Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

Vrana Lake Nature Park is the biggest natural lake in Croatia. The lake with its surroundings is distinguished by extraordinary diversity of habitats and species. 249 bird species have been recorded here. NW part of the Park has been protected as Special Ornithological Reserve since 1983. It’s the only stabile breeding site of Pygmy Cormorant in Croatia and the only breeding site of the Purple Heron in the Mediterranean part of Croatia. Visitors come here to enjoy rich and plentiful natural and cultural heritage, walks, bicycle rides, bird watching, sport fishing, spectacular views and much more.

Production Organization(s): Public Institution Vrana Lake Nature ParkProducer: Public Institution Vrana Lake Nature ParkDirector: Mihovil GunjačaPhotographer: Boris PoljakPicture Editor: Boris PoljakSound: Damir ČučićScript Writer: Mihovil GunjačaNarrator: Željko TomacEffects Editor: Tina ZlobecScientific Adviser: Ivica PrtenjačaMusic Composer: Vedran Mažuranić and G. ŠtrbacDistributor: Public Institution Vrana Lake Nature Park


Organization: Public Institution Vrana Lake Nature ParkAddress: K. Petra Svacica 2, 23210 Biograd n/M, CroatiaPhone: +38523383181Fax: +38523386453E-mail: [email protected]: www.vransko-jezero.hr

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The Secret Life Of …My Small Urban Backyard

Country: USALanguage: EnglishLength: 20 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

A bull-dog (Tommy) goes out of the house via a dog door finding unattended food. As he scoffs this up, crumbs fall to the ground, inspected by ants who lead us into the macro world of the garden featuring segments of metamorphosis, eating and been eaten, sex and farting insects…

Production Organization(s): John Dunstan

Producer: John DunstanDirector: John DunstanPhotographer: John DunstanPicture Editor: John DunstanSound: John DunstanMusic: Kevin MacLeodScript Writer: John DunstanNarrator: John DunstanDistributor: John Dunstan Submitted by: John Dunstan

Award category: Natural History, Low budget

John Dunstan646 West Side Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07304 USATel. +1 201-9884986Email: [email protected]

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Terra (Earth)

Country: SpainLanguage: English subtitles Length: 12 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

An old woman explains how she changed the course of her life while she describes the process of planting an orange tree and the unexpected events that followed...

Production Organization(s): Cubic Creaciones Audiovisuales SLProducer: Marco MateusDirector: Txema Uribarri, Marco MateusPhotographer: Maria EscuderoPicture Editor: Maria EscuderoSound: Diego GolbertScript Writer: Txema Uribarri Submitted by: Cubic Creaciones Audiovisuales SL

Award category: Low budget

Cubic Creaciones Audiovisuales SLC/ Benito J. Feijoo 11 ED Formentera 1 5o A, 07181 Costa d’en Blanes, I Balears, SpainTel. +34 6548 95150Email: [email protected]: www. cubiccreaciones.com/terra

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Penguin Island Ep1.– Love is in the Air

Country: AustraliaLanguage: EnglishLength: 30 min Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

The world famous Little Penguins of Australia’s Phillip Island entertain half a million tourists a year with a sunset parade from the surf to their burrows. But behind the scenes, the penguins’ lives are even more interesting. Over six 30-minute episodes, Penguin Island follows the penguins as a dedicated team of rangers and scientists monitor and protect them through the hottest summer on record. Filmed over a year by some of Australia’s best documentary filmmakers, Penguin Island offers a rewarding insight into the lives of the stars of Phillip Island’s internationally renowned Penguin Parade.

In episode one of Penguin Island we meet Bluey and Sheila, one of the 13,000 little penguin couples who live on Phillip Island, as they begin their annual breeding cycle, and the dedicated team of rangers and scientists who will monitor and protect them through the hottest summer on record.

Production Organization(s): 360 Degree FilmsProducer: Sally IngletonDirector: Simon TargetPhotographer: David ParerPicture Editor: Tony StevensSound: Tristan MeredithScript Writer: Simon TargetNarrator: Rolf HarrisEffects Editor: NoneScientific Adviser: Various scientists – Phillip Island Nature ParkMusic Composer: Dale CorneliusDistributor: National Geographic Television InternationalSubmitted by: 360 Degree Films /Shelley Dresden

Award category: Natural History Films

360 Degree Films /Shelley Dresden Address: PO Box 418, Brunswick VIC 3056, AustraliaPhone: + 61 3 9948 1922Fax: + 61 3 9948 1920E-mail: [email protected]: www.360degreefilms.com.au

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Penguin Island Ep. 2– Danger in the Penguin Colony


Synopsis

The world famous Little Penguins of Australia’s Phillip Island entertain half a million tourists a year with a sunset parade from the surf to their burrows. But behind the scenes, the penguins’ lives are even more interesting. Over six 30-minute episodes, Penguin Island follows the penguins as a dedicated team of rangers and scientists monitor and protect them through the hottest summer on record. Filmed over a year by some of Australia’s best documentary filmmakers, Penguin Island offers a rewarding insight into the lives of the stars of Phillip Island’s internationally renowned Penguin Parade. In episode two, long-time penguin couple Bluey and Sheila are struggling to feed their hungry chicks, Sammy and Tom and protect them from predatory gulls, domestic pets and a feral fox, which is stalking the colony.




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Penguin Island Ep. 3– Where Have all the Fish Gone?


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The world famous Little Penguins of Australia’s Phillip Island entertain half a million tourists a year with a sunset parade from the surf to their burrows. But behind the scenes, the penguins’ lives are even more interesting. Over six 30-minute episodes, Penguin Island follows the penguins as a dedicated team of rangers and scientists monitor and protect them through the hottest summer on record. Filmed over a year by some of Australia’s best documentary filmmakers, Penguin Island offers a rewarding insight into the lives of the stars of Phillip Island’s internationally renowned Penguin Parade. In episode three, time is running out for hungry penguin chicks Sammy and Tom, whose parents Bluey and Sheila must swim further and further to sea in a desperate attempt to find fish. As the weather heats up, chicks are dying of starvation throughout the colony and the harsh reality of nature is revealed.




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Penguin Island Ep. 4– A Heat wave hits the Colony


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In episode four, A punishing heatwave hits the island, bushfires are raging around the state and penguins are collapsing from heat, hunger and exhaustion. As the animal hospital fills with overheated wildlife, rangers work to re-hydrate and cool the Little Penguins in a battle to save their lives.




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Penguin Island Ep. 5– Rocky Finds Love at Last


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In episode five, unlucky-in-love Rocky finally finds a mate in Jess, whose previous clutch of chicks has died. But it is very late in the season to be raising chicks before the Little Penguins’ annual moult prevents them going to sea. And new technology reveals just what Little Penguins get up to underwater.




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Penguin Island Ep. 6– Summer Ends on Phillip Island


Synopsis

The world famous Little Penguins of Australia’s Phillip Island entertain half a million tourists a year with a sunset parade from the surf to their burrows. But behind the scenes, the penguins’ lives are even more interesting. Over six 30-minute episodes, Penguin Island follows the penguins as a dedicated team of rangers and scientists monitor and protect them through the hottest summer on record. Filmed over a year by some of Australia’s best documentary filmmakers, Penguin Island offers a rewarding insight into the lives of the stars of Phillip Island’s internationally renowned Penguin Parade. In the final episode of Penguin Island, Rocky and Jess’s surviving chick Tilda is not yet big enough to feed herself and is anxiously awaiting the return of her parents. But time is running out as penguins around the island begin to moult.




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Missing Vultures

Country: PakistanLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 20 min Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

Missing Vultures is a documentary that highlights the causes behind the sudden and rapid decline in the vulture populations in Pakistan. Once found in the millions through out the country, they have now almost disappeared. This documentary explores the negative consequences of losing this important scavenger species to extinction. It also highlights the efforts by WWF-Pakistan to save the magnificent vulture from extinction.

Production Organization(s): WWF-PakistanProducer: Muhammad Ali IjazDirector: Muhammad Ali IjazPhotographer: Shah Zaman BalochPicture Editor: Sohali AzadSound: Riaz AhmedScript Writer: Muhammad Ali IjazScientific Adviser: WWF-PakistanMusic Composer: Hassan AshrafSubmitted by: Muhammad Ali Ijaz

Award category: Natural History, Environmental Conservation, Low Budget

Muhammad Ali Ijaz597-J, Johar Town,Lahore,PakistanTel. +92 300 4389079E-mail: [email protected]

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Chilies to the Rescue! – Easing the Human-Elephant ConflictCountry: GermanyLanguage: EnglishLength: 50 min Completion date: 2010

Synopsis

Africa is reporting a rise in elephant numbers. At the same time the population of humans is growing. Man and elephant require space. Conflicts between both are unavoidable and the battle between humans and elephants is getting more grisly and costlier. Conservationists and gamekeepers of Africa are researching new methods to manage the jumbos: especially chili peppers seem very promising as the elephants’ long trunks are very sensitive to the hot spice. But the question remains: Is there any chance for a permanent and peaceful coexistence of humans and elephants? How many elephants can the African continent handle?

Production Organization(s): Marco Polo Film AGProducer: Annette ScheurichDirector: Herbert OstwaldPhotographer: Roland Gockel, Peter GlaubPicture Editor: Jan Wilm SchmüllingSound: Dirk Schamuhn, Florian KalteneggerScript Writer: Herbert OstwaldNarrator: Susan TackenbergMusic Composer: Stefan DöringDistributor: Albatross World SalesSubmitted by: Marco Polo Film AG


Marco Polo Film AGAddress: Handschuhsheimer Landstraße 73Phone: +49 (0)6221 400780Fax: +49 (0)6221 400884E-mail: [email protected]: www.marco-polo-film.de

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Dipole

Country: The NetherlandsLanguage: EnglishLength: 26 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

Dipole is an an intriguing real life nature conservation story from the Pulau Banyak Archipelago, which passed the world’s attention unnoticed. The 100 island+ archipelago had to deal with the 2005 tsunami, and were hit 3 months later by the Nias earthquake. On Bangkaru, one of the islands, you find the largest turtle nesting beach in the whole of Aceh and Sumatra where Yayasan Pulay Banyak takes care of the turtle protection.

Production Organization(s): Submarines foundationProducer: Edward SnijdersDirector: Edward SnijdersPhotographer: Edward SnijdersPicture Editor: Edward SnijdersSound: Highland MusikScript Writer: Edward SnijdersNarrator: Kirsteen EasdaleEffects Editor: Scientific Adviser:Dr Nerilie Abram, Oxford, UK, Dr Walter Starck, Townsville, AustraliaDistributor: Submarines foundationSubmitted by: Submarines foundation

Award category: Low Budget, Environmental Conservation

Submarines foundation/ Edward SnijdersAddress: Grijzegrubben 83, Phone: +31 6 4910 9030E-mail: [email protected]: www.submarines.nl

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Great Lakes of Europe

Country: RussiaLanguage: Russian (English Script)Length: 52 min Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Great lakes of Europe is a Russian film that tells the story about the 5 biggest lakes in North Western Russia starting with The Lake Saimaa (4400 км2), The Lake Onega (9890 км2), The Lake Ilmen (1100 км2), The Lake Ladoga (18135 км2) and The Lake Pskov-Tchudskoye (3550 км2), These great lakes are connected with drainages but also with a long history and culture created by the people who lived there throughout time…

Production Organization(s): Production Center “Studio F”Producer: Sergei PopovDirector: Sergei Popov and Olga Podolskya Photographer: Sergei Popov and Harri EkholmPicture Editor: Sergei Popov Sound: Sergei Popov Script Writer: Sergei Submitted by: Sergei PopovDistributor: Sergei Popov

Award category:

Production Center “Studio F”Address: RUSSIA, 194017, St. -Petersburg, Kostromskoi prospect, 24 /of. 132Phone/Fax: + 7. 812. 400-74-41Mobil. Phone: +7. 921. 756-88-52 / 51E-Mail:[email protected]

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Kevääntuoja: Uuden Luonnon laulujaSpringbringer:Songs from the World of New Nature

Country: FinlandLanguage: EnglishLength: 20 minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

Springbringer is a poetic dream-like fantasy movie. It is a captivating journey to the world of New Nature which is full of wonders, swans, animals and spirits of Nature. The movie was filmed in Hanko, Finland and the production took four years. Every aspect of the film was made by one man. “A seed falls from the sky to a pond. The seed begins to sprout. A sprite is born. Swans gather around the sprite which sends the swans on a voyage to the Moon. They must fly there before the sky is freezing over…”

Production Organization(s): Synchronic PresentationsProducer: Jukka EronenDirector: Jukka EronenPhotographer: Jukka EronenPicture Editor: Jukka EronenSound: Jukka EronenScript Writer: Jukka EronenEffects Editor: Jukka EronenMusic Composer: Jukka EronenSubmitted by: Jukka Eronen

Award category: Low Budget, Finnish

Synchronic PresentationsNarvikinkatu 20, 10900 Hanko, FinlandTel. +358 40 7407980Email: [email protected]: http://www.springbringer.com

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The Corinth Canal

Country: GreeceLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 18 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

More than a century ago, after 2453 years of hardship from all occasionally leading world powers through out history, after uncountable deaths and infinite other barriers on the way, 2 500 workers finally accomplished during 11 years time the unimaginable until then task to finally dig the way through 6 km of land that separated the Aegean Sea from the Gulf of Corinth creating thus the world famous Corinth Canal following the example of the Suez Canal. This 18 min film tells us the epic story of this monumental construction project, using all available evidence and rare archive pictures.

Production Organization: Corinth Canal LTD CoProducer: George PalamarisDirector: George PalamarisPhotographer: Tsvetomir Tsankov, George PalamarisPicture Editor: Tsvetomir TsankovSound: Pavlos Giannakakos Script Writer: George Palamaris, Maria KrondiriNarrator: George PalamarisSubmitted by: George Palamaris


George Palamaris/ Tsvetomir TsankovD.D. Pirgos-20009-Derveni-CorinthiasGreeceTel. +30 2430 95428Email. [email protected]

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The river of Asopos: Myth and Reality

Country: GreeceLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 13 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

Following the reach genealogical references of Greek mythology about the river of Asopos-which is situated near by the City of Corinth in North Peloponnesus- we find out that it was considered the place of origin of Hercules and therefore the river was more than divine to Ancient Greeks. On the contrary, today the same river is abandoned and of course full of rubbish… This film tells the story of a group of people who try to change that intolerable situation…

Producer: George PalamarisDirector: George PalamarisPhotographer: George PalamarisPicture Editor: Tsvetomir TsankovSound: Tsvetomir TsankovScript Writer: Maria KrontiriNarrator: George PalamarisScientific Adviser: George KostourosSubmitted by: George Palamaris

Award category: Low Budget, Environmental Conservation

George Palamaris/ Tsvetomir TsankovD.D. Pirgos-20009-Derveni-CorinthiasGreeceTel. +30 2430 95428Email. [email protected]

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The Invisible Bird Photographer

Country: HungaryLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 26 minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

To take a good picture about a bird is hard and difficult. To take the perfect picture about a bird doing things you’ve never seen before - is nearly impossible. Professional equipment, experience and intimate knowledge of birds are surely needed but by far isn’t enough to succeed. Bence Máté’s pictures are telling everything about the secret lives of birds - but telling nothing about the secrets of cutting-edge bird-photography. If you want to know how this young and obsessed young man won every imaginable prize worldwide, how he was/is awarded time after time on BBC’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, you just have go and ask. That’s exactly what we did when filming “The Invisible Bird Photographer’. We worked together with him for years on this project but never stopped admiring the way he lives and works in nature. Come and meet Bence Máté and see how he becomes invisible - to the bird’s eye view, at least.

Production Organization(s): Filmjungle.euProducer: Zsolt Marcell Toth Director: Attila David Molnar, Zsolt Marcell TothPhotographer: : Attila David Molnar, Zsolt Marcell TothPicture Editor: : Attila David Molnar, Zsolt Marcell TothSound: Sándor FaludiScript Writer: Attila Dávd MolnarNarrator: Tamas DunaiDistributor: Filmjungle.euSubmitted by: Filmjungle.eu


Filmjungle.euAddress: 1031, Budapest, Nánási út 2/A, HungaryPhone: +36704668690E-mail: [email protected]: www.filmjungle.eu

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When the poles melt - Antarctic Expedition

Country: GermanyLanguage: English Length: 52minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

On the Ice-Edge is a filmic journey to a region that no-one has seen before – an expeditionin to Antarctica’s past. This film dispels the myth of “the eternal ice.” For in Pine IslandBay, everything is in flux. Nothing is eternal – except change.

Production Organization(s): Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbHProducer: Olaf JacobsDirector: Kai VoigtländerPhotographer: Guido KilbertEditor: Anne BerriniSound: Sven PieskerScript Writer: Kai VoigtländerMusic Composer: Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Denis, Tim StanzelDistributor: Telepool GmbH


Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbHAddress: Alte Schönhauser Straße 9Phone: +49 30 30874560 Fax: +49 30 30874566E-mail: [email protected]: www.hoferichterjacobs.de

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Merenkurkun kalapuroilla (At the Fish-Brooks of Merenkurkku/Kvarken)

Country: FinlandLanguage: Finnish/EnglishLength: 35 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

Brooks and brooklets that flow from a peculiar kind of enclosed natural pools – called kluuvi – and lakes into the sea, are typical for the eastern coast of Merenkurkku/Kvarken and its archipelago. Upstream the brooks filled with water from the melting snow, pike, perch and roach move to spawn in the freshwater of the kluuvi-pools and lakes. During the springtime when the sea still is ice-covered and the food supply – especially in April – is scarce, the open brook-mouths and the soon uncovered brook beds with freely and swiftly flowing water, offer both local sea eagles and the gulls and goosanders returning from their migration possibilities to catch fish. Also a crane-couple are early visitors at the fish-brooks – fishers as they are in the archipelago. The abundance of fishes and the numerous greedily eating birds, entice both foxes and raccoon dogs to come to the brooks. At one of the brooks even a wolf has been observed. The migration of the fishes upstream to the freshwaters and back again into the sea, goes on from April to June. At the latest around Midsummer the brooks go dry and the gorge on fishes is finished.

Producer: Eero MurtomäkiDirector: Eero MurtomäkiPhotographer: Eero Murtomäki, Juhani Koivusaari, Ari ValkolaEditor: Eero Murtomäki, Juhani KoivusaariSound: Gari SaarimäkiScript Writer: Eero MurtomäkiNarrator (English): Gerald PorterNarrator (Finnish): Eero Murtomäki, Juhani Koivusaari, Ari ValkolaSubmitted by: Eero Murtomäki

Award category: Low Budget, Finnish

Eero MurtomäkiKoulukatu 16 A6 65100 Vaasa, FinlandPhone: +358 40 5602228Email: [email protected]

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The Great Grey Shrike

Country: EstoniaLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 7 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

The Great Grey Shrike is a strange animated wildlife story about the very peculiar manners of the great grey shrike, the common cuckoo, starlings and many other birds.

Animation Artist: Chintis LundgrenProducer: Chintis Lundgren Director: Chintis Lundgren Photographer: Chintis Lundgren Editor: Chintis LundgrenSound: Christjan Raidna Script Writer: Chintis LundgrenNarrator: Inge TingMusic Composer: Christjan Raidna

Award category: low budget /animation films by youth

Ruubiku kuubiku osakond teatab/Chintis LundgrenAddress: Moora 11,Tallinn 11625 EstoniaPhone: +372 51930739Email: [email protected] : www.chintislundgren.com

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The Blood of The Rose

Country: UK/ Germany / JapanLanguage: EnglishLength: 90 min Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

The extraordinary life and brutal death of filmmaker-turned-conservationist Joan Root and her campaign to save Kenya’s Lake Naivasha. Who killed Root? Through investigating the story, the film opens a window onto the simmering tensions in an Africa still emerging from colonialism and anxious to join the global economy. For it is the Kenyan rose, which is exported by the millions from Naivasha to the rest of the world, that has brought – not just jobs and foreign exchange earnings – but the environmental destruction that Root worked so hard to stop and which may have ultimately cost her life...

Production Organization(s): Dragonfly Film and Television Productions Ltd, BBCProducer: Henry SingerDirector: Henry SingerPhotographer: Jonathan PartridgePicture Editor: Ben StarkSound: Paul ParagonScript Writer: Henry SingerNarrator: Sam WestMusic Composer: Andy CowtonDistributor: C4i Distribution, London UK


Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)/ Hans-Peter MetzlerAddress: Appellhofplatz 1, D-50667 Cologne, GermanyPhone: +49 (0)221 2202789Fax: +49 (0)221 2203955E-mail: [email protected]: www.wdr.de

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Spinning Toward Green

Country: USALanguage: EnglishLength: 27 min Completion date: 2008

Synopsis

Spinning Toward Green is a documentary film that explores the impact that wind energy is having on wildlife.Wind energy is a clean and renewable resource that may reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this new technology has some hidden negative impacts. Recent studies indicate that at some wind energy facilities in North America bats are being struck and killed by turbine blades. With the development of new wind energy facilities, bat mortality will continue to increase. Scientists are working together with the wind industry to address this problem. Spinning Toward Green explores the issue at wind energy facilities. Will scientists be able to solve this problem before bat populations are unable to recover?

Production Organization(s): GEM ProductionsProducer: Gwendolyn Morgan Director: Gwendolyn MorganPhotographer: Stewart Brown, William IversonPicture Editor: Ryan PratzelSound: Gwendolyn MorganScript Writer: Gwendolyn MorganNarrator: Adam SchreckMusic Composer: Charlene LockwoodDistributor: None yetSubmitted by: GEM Productions/ Gwendolyn Morgan

Award category: Low Budget/ Environmental Conservation

GEM Productions/ Gwendolyn MorganAddress: 2001 Columbia Pike, 510 Arlington, 22204 Virginia, USATel. +1 703-966-5839Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Web: www.spinningtowardgreen.com

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Bird Without Borders – Black-faced Spoonbills

Country: TaiwanLanguage: EnglishLength: 52 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

Found nowhere else but on wetlands in Asia, Black-Faced Spoonbill is the only spoonbill currently endangered. Its migration is captured for the first time on HD, and we reveal dedicated individuals divided by borders, but share one common goal – conservation and protection of this endangered species and their remaining habitats.

Production Organization(s): PTS & IFA Co-productionProducer: Selena TsaoDirector: Dean JohnsonPhotographer: Chieh-te Liang / Dean JohnsonScript Writer: Dean JohnsonNarrator: Jinny Chang


Public Television Service, TaiwanAddress: No.100, Lane 75, Sec. 3,Kang Ning Rd., Taipei 114, Taiwan, R.O.C.Phone: 00 886 2 2633-8037Fax: 00 886 2 2630-1895E-mail: [email protected]: http://eng.pts.org.tw/

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Spirits of Orchid Island

Country: TaiwanLanguage: EnglishLength: 53 minCompletion date: 2008

Synopsis

Over a thousand kinds of fish and numerous sea snakes cruise Orchid Island’s reefs while lush jungles teem with rare butterflies, reptiles and rare birds, such as the Lanyu Scops Owl. The island’s wild nature has long been preserved by the Tao people who have a deep respect for all living things as Syaman Rapongan, a highly-respected Tao writer, reveals.

Production Organization(s): Public Television Service Foundation PTSProducer: Wen Cheng / Shuwa ChangDirector: Nick UptonPhotographer:Picture Editor:Script Writer: Nick UptonNarrator: Matthew Lien


Public Television Service, TaiwanAddress: No.100, Lane 75, Sec. 3,Kang Ning Rd., Taipei 114, Taiwan, R.O.C.Phone: 00 886 2 2633-8037Fax: 00 886 2 2630-1895E-mail: [email protected]: http://eng.pts.org.tw/

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Rajankäyntiä (Frontier Life) Rajaseudun villi luonto (Hidden Paradise of Russian Karelia)

Country: FinlandLanguage: English subtitlesLength: 30 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

In the fourth episode of the series Frontier Life documentary filmmaker Petteri Saario visits the Oulanka National Park in Finland as well as the Paanajärvi National Park on the Russian side of the border.The green belt of Fennoscandia stretches through several vegetation zones, from the Gulf of Finland up to the woodless tundra of northern Lapland. Northern Europe’s most beautiful natural forests and vast untouched areas can be found here.

Production Organization(s): DocArtProducer: Tiina Saario & Petteri SaarioDirector: Petteri Saario & Jan HenrikssonPhotographer: Petteri Saario Picture Editor: Petteri SaarioSound: Joonatan Hietanen & Petteri SaarioScript Writer: Petteri SaarioNarrator: Petteri SaarioMusic Composer: Perttu HietanenDistributor: DocArt/ Tiina Saario


DocArt/Tiina SaarioAddress: Vanha Hämeenlinnantie 11, 06100 PorvooPhone: 040 733 9300Fax:019 5232910E-mail:[email protected]:www.wildfin.com

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The Core

Country: FranceLanguage: English Length: 16 min Completion date: 2009

Synopsis

Two friends overcome the isolation of a dark exile. Thoughts and words were forced to be mute. Everything seemed to be coloured by clinking noise and smoke-filled beam. Together they wave into a space where only a mirror was splitting between them.

Production Organization(s): Katia RoesselProducer: Katia Roessel Director: Katia RoesselPhotographer: Marion BoutinPicture Editor: Katia RoesselSound: Jean-Philippe BoinotScript Writer: Katia RoesselNarrator: Ivan SellierScientific Adviser: Mareike EngelhardtMusic Composer: Pengfei LuDistributor: Katia Roessel


Katia RoesselAddress: 4 Villa JocelynPhone: +33 (0)6 79 08 69 39E-mail: [email protected]: http://catherineroessel.blogspot.com

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The Fight for Amazonia- Raids in the Rainforest

Country: GermanyLanguage: EnglishLength: 52 minCompletion date: 2010

Synopsis

Ana Rafaela D’ Amico is the youngest national park director in Brazil. In order to save the rainforest, the 27 year old has declared war on the drags gangs, logging mafia and illegal fishing in the Campos Amazonicos National Park. Her enemies are invisible. It’s a straggle of dangers and bitterly fought successes. The small players she can catch; and has to take away their livelihood, but there is often little she can do against the big players. Still, Rafaela believes that it is possible to save Amazonia if everyone does their bit. She will not give up-this is the only way she knows.

Production Organization(s): Filmquadrat.dok GmbHProducer: Thomas WartmannDirector: Thomas WartmannPhotographer: Nikolaus TorouquellaPicture Editor: Verena SchönauerSound: Paulo MunhozMusic Composer: Nils KacirekScript Writer: Thomas WartmannNarrator: Tom Zahner Scientific Adviser: Nikolaus TorouquellaDistributor: Filmquadrat.dok GmbHSubmitted by: Filmquadrat.dok GmbH


Filmquadrat.dok GmbHAddress: Viktoriastr. 34, 808003 Munchen GermanyTel. +49 89 38329820Fax. +49 89 38329821Email. [email protected]. www. filmquadrat-dok.de

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Viva La Crisis!

Country: RomaniaLanguage: -Length: 3 minCompletion date: 2009

Synopsis

Deforestation, property development, pollution, money and a lot of food –all this is going to change…The economic crisis has come! Bicycle is the best vehicle now. Fat people start to losing weight and the world is changing…

Producer: Alexei GubencoDirector: Alexei Gubenco Sound: Cosmin MirzaScript Writer: Alexei GubencoMusic Composer: Cosmin MirzaSubmitted by: Alexei Gubenco

Award category: Short/Animation

Alexei GubencoBd. Lutatorilor 62-64 ap. 14, Bucharest, RomaniaTel. +40 723197535Email:[email protected]

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