23rd International Film Festival of the Environment of the Serra da Estrela "CineEco" will be held in Portugal on October 14 - 21, 2017. Science film "Diamonds For My Ants" by Karina Vilenkina is included into its competition.
CinePromo submits "Diamonds For My Ants" to film festivals around the globe.
The festival offers various thematic sessions and parallel activities and the international, lusophony and youth competition. The Festival annually receives more than 500 documentaries about environmental issues from more than 30 countries. Around 50 of them are selected for the contest.
The Festival pursuits to attract new audiences, sensitizing them to the cinema, its history and its esthetics. In 2006 the Festival received the National Prize for the Environment of the Portuguese Confederation of Associations of Environmental Defense. The Festival is currently a founding member of the Association of Environment Film Festival (EFFN - Environmental Film Festival Network), and performs several extensions throughout the country during the year.
The film was screened at various film festivals in Russia and Europe, including Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) in Czech Republic, "GREEN SCREEN" in Germany, "OFF CINEMA" in Poland and "Matsalu Nature Film Festival" in Estonia. It has won 6 prizes such as Grand Prix, Best Director Prizes and Special Prize at Russian film festivals.
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)
International Children's and Youth Film Festival "ZERO PLUS" (2017, Russia, Tyumen)
Open All-Russian Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the earth" (2017, Russia, Samara)
Russian Film Festival "Kinoshock", Best Documentary Prize (2017, Russia, Anapa)
OFF CINEMA (2017, Poland, Poznań)
International Film Festival of the Environment of the Serra da Estrela "CineEco" (2017, Portugal, Seia)
Ecotopfilm (2017, Czech Republic, Prague)
