- year : 2016
- country : Russia
- timing : 15:22'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Karina Vilenkina
written 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", Special Diploma (2017, Russia, Tyumen)
- Open All-Russian Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the Earth", Special Prize (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)
- North Caucasus Open Film Festival and TV "Kunaki", Best Short Documentary (2017, Abkhazia, Sukhumi)
- International Film Festival "Radiant Angel", Special Diploma (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Ecological Week (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Elijah Wells Youth Indie Film Festival (2017, USA, Miami)
- Open Documentary Film Festival "Russia" (2017, Russia, Ekaterinburg)
- Charitable Festival of Spiritual and Moral Cinema for Children and Youth, Special Prize "The best hero of documentary films: for the love of life" (2017, Russia, Kronshtadt)
- Russian Film Festival, Best Documentary (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- International Short Film Festival "I see God" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Festival of eco-films and advertising "EFIR 74" (2017, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
- The nominee of the award "Golden Eagle" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- International Environmental Film Festival “Green Vision”, Winner of the national competition (2017, Russia, Saint-Petersburg)
- International Festival of Patriotic films "Volokolamsk line" (2017, Russia, Volokolamsk)
- Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival (2017, India, Kolkata)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Siberia" (2017, Russia, Omsk)
- International Film Festival "Rendezvous with Russia", II Place in the nomination "Frescoes of the North" (2017, Russia, Vologda)
- All-Russian Festival of Author’s Short Films "ArtKino", Diploma of the spectators of Moscow III degree (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- SEFF - Smaragdni Eco Film Festival (2018, Croatia, Hrvatska Kostajnica)
- We Care Film Festival (2018, India, New Delhi)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference (2018, Australia, Sydney)
- International Film Festival on the Life of People with Disabilities "Cinema without Barriers" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "World of Knowledge", Special Diploma of the Youth Jury of St. Petersburg State University (2018, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- International Ethnocultural Festival "Nomad Universe" (2019, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh)
- Film Festival “Seize the Film" (2019, Serbia, Novi Sad)
- Accessible Film Festival (2019, Turkey, Ankara)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Karina Vilenkina was born on 21.04.1988 in Moscow. In 2009 graduated from Institute of Contemporary Art as a journalist. Her diploma film "Lusha" was highlighted by commission and personally by the President of Journalism Faculty. In 2011 won the 2nd Russian competition "New View" with the social project "Landscape". In 2011 released her debut film "This Is My Story" about a British military photographer Jason Howe.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2016 - Diamonds For My Ants, documentary
2011 - This Is My Story
2009 - Lusha