Matsalu Nature Film Festival (MAFF) will be held in Estonia on September 20 - 24, 2017. Science film "Diamonds For My Ants" by Karina Vilenkina is included into it's film competition.
The film is distributed by CinePromo.
The film was screened at various festivals in Russia and Europe, including Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) in Czech Republic and "GREEN SCREEN" in Germany. It has won 5 prizes such as Grand Prix, Best Director Prizes and Special Prize at Russian festivals.
The Matsalu Nature Film Festival (MAFF) is an annual nature film event held in Estonia. It has been named after the nearby Matsalu National Park, which is one of largest bird sanctuaries in Europe. The MAFF is organized by the Matsalu Nature Film Festival non-profit organization in cooperation with the Lihula municipal government. The festival promotes nature-oriented and sustainable ways of life and respect for the nature-connected traditions of indigenous people. It showcases a variety of new international films about nature, wildlife, environment, sustainability, biodiversity, conservation - films that depict nature in its diversity and films about the coexistence of man and nature.
DIAMONDS FOR MY ANTS
2016, Russia, 15:22'
written and directed by Karina Vilenkina
produced by Karina Vilenkina, Dmitriy Vorotilin
DoPs Denis Levin, Danila Sidorov
music by Artem Avetisyan, Dmitriy Vorotilin, Anton Zavrazhnov, Ildar Shaymyardyanov, Unstable Elements
sound by Alexander Motylev
editor Karina Vilenkina
"Diamonds for my Ants" - an awe inspiring story of Andrey Pavlov, who became disabled at the age of 50, but found a courage to start over and now his photographs of ants are famous worldwide.
International Film Festival "In Short" (2017, Russia, Volgograd)
Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Academia Film Olomouc (2017, Czech Republic, Olomouc)
Barents Ecology Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (2017, Russia, Petrozavodsk)
International Film Festival "Light To The World", Grand Prix, Special Prize (2017, Russia, Yaroslal - Rybinsk)
International Film Festival "Golden Knight" (2017, Russia, Sevastopol)
International Film Festival "The Man and the Sea", Best Director Prize (2017, Russia, Vladivostok)
International Ecological Film Festival "To Save and Preserve", Best Director Prize (2017, Russia, Yugra)
International Science Film Festival "Scinema" (2017, Australia, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth)
International Wildlife Film Festival "GREEN SCREEN" (2017, Germany, Eckernförde)
Matsalu Nature Film Festival (2017, Estonia, Lihula)
Film Festival "Native Trails" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
