Wildlife Vaasa Festival – Nominations 2014

2014
Wildlife Vaasa Festival
List of Finalists & Special Award Nominees
Ilias Missyris
7/31/2014
1
WILDLIFE VAASA 2014 – INTERNATIONAL NATURE FILM COMPETITON
LIST OF FINALISTS
Category 1: Natural History
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
1.
JUNGLE BOOK BEAR
GERMANY
59
2012
GULO Film, BBC
NATURAL WORLD &
STUDIO HAMBURG
DOCLIGHTS
NATURFILM Oliver
Goetzl & Ivo Noerenberg
ESTONIAN NATURE: ALAM-PEDJA
OY Vesilind
ESTONIA
40
2013
Riho Västrik, Remek Meel
CHRISTMAS WINTER WONDERLAND
Marco Polo Film AG
GERMANY
52
2014
Annette Scheurich, Klaus
Scheurich
THE BACKYARD JUNGLE - SPRING
AWAKENING
nautilusfilm GmbH Natural History Germany,
Jan Haft, Melani Haft
GERMANY
45
GERMANY
48
2013
Blue Planet Film for
DocLights NDR Naturfilm,
Thomas Behrend, Heike
Grebe, Susanne Lummer
WILD BERLIN
DOKfilm Fernselproduktion
GERMANY
52
2013
Jost-Arend Bösenberg,
Rosie Koch, Roland Gockel
66.
71.
77.
2014
80.
83.
WILD CONGO – PART 2: APES AND
ALLIENS
1
2
127.
NOCK - MOUNTAINS AT HEAVEN'S
DOOR
2013
132.
PLANET SPARROW
2013
133.
SECRET OF BUMBLEBEES
2013
137.
HUMMINGBIRDS - JEWELLED
MESSENGERS
dreiD.at filmproduktion &
ORF in association with
ORF-Enterprise and
Kulturförderung Kärnten,
Waltraud Paschinger
AUSTRIA
50
Kurt Mayer Film, ORF,
ARTE and NDR in
association with RTR,
Vienna Film Fund and
bm:ukk Kurt Mayer
AUSTRIA
50
ORF & Power of Earth
productions in association
with ORF-enterprise, Kurt
Mündl
AUSTRIA
50
TERRA MATER Factual
Studios, Free Spirit Films
Production, Paul Reddish
AUSTRIA
53
SCIENCEVISION AND
SATEL FILM in association
with THIRTEEN,
ServusTV, TERRA
MATER FACTUAL
STUDIOS supported by
Cinestyria, Fernsehfonds
Austria, Filmfonds Wien
and Land NÖ Heinrich
Ambrosch, Rita
Schlamberger, Michael
Schlamberger
TERRA MATER Factual
Studios in co-production
with WNET/Thirteen and
NDR Naturfilm/Doclights,
Brian Leith, Ben Wallis
AUSTRIA
52
AUSTRIA
53
2012
139.
WHITE BEAUTY - A STALLIONS LIFE
2013
143.
KILLER WHALES - FINS OF CHANGE
2014
2
3
Category 2: Environment & Conservation
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
3.
DUMPED AND FORGOTTEN
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
SWR
(SÜDWESTRUNDFUNK)
COUNTRY
RT
min
GERMANY
53
POLAND
27
2013
Manfred Ladwig
69. LIFE FLOURISHING IN THE WETLANDS
76.
92.
CKPS & TVP
2014
Marta Kadziela
THE MOOR
GERMANY
50
2012
nautilusfilm GmbH Natural History Germany,
Jan Haft, Melani Haft
HERDERS OF THE MIST
Domingo Moreno
SPAIN
55
Doclights GmbH / NDR
Naturfilm, Tom
Synnatzschke, Holger Vogt
GERMANY
50
ZDF Second German
Television, Alexandra
Svendsen, Andreas Ewels
GERMANY
52
ORF & IN-Film in
association with bm:ukk,
Istvan Nadaskay
AUSTRIA
50
Triq Produktion for SVT –
SverigesTelevision,
SWEDEN
59
2014
94.
THE RETURN OF THE PREDATORS
2014
122.
THE LERCHENBERG ADVENTURE
2012
129.
OWL'S ODYSSEY
2013
136.
THE BEE EFFECT
2014
Tina-Marie Qwiberg
3
4
140.
HUNT FOR THE RUSSIAN TIGER
2012
142.
STRANDWOLF
2012
157.
GERMANY’S REUNIFICATION -
A MIKE BIRKHEAD
ASSOCIATES
PRODUCTION FOR
TERRA TERRA MATER
Factual Studios in coproduction with THIRTEEN
Mike Birkhead, Joe
Loncraine
AUSTRIA
52
TALKING PICTURES &
TABLE MOUNTAIN
FILMS for TERRA
MATER Factual Studios
Garth Lucas, Ann Strimling
AUSTRIA
52
ROLAND BLUM
FILMPRODUKTION
GERMANY
97
GERMANY
51
A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
Roland Blum
2014
165.
O CHRISTMAS TREE
FLORIANFILM
2013
Viktor Apfelbacher, Andy
Lehmann
4
5
Category 3.1: Nordic
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
128.
130.
135.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
TROUT IN TROUBLE
Pandora Film AS
NORWAY
29
2014
PASSION FOR PIKE
Trude Refsahl, Jan Inge M.
Skogheim
Pandora Film AS
NORWAY
29
2013
Jan Inge M. Skogheim
OAK - THE TREE OF LIFE
Vildmarksforum & SVT Sveriges Television, Henrik
Ekman, Ulf Jonasson, Hans
Berggren
SWEDEN
58
WINTER LIGHT
Ibis film
NORWAY
25
2011
Skule Eriksen, Lisbeth
Dreyer
HORIZON
Ibis film
NORWAY
22
2013
Skule Eriksen, Lisbeth
Dreyer
2013
38.
39.
5
6
Category 3.2 : Finnish
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
26.
THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
Elina Kivilä, Olga Pihlman
FINLAND
28
KARHU THE BEAR
jjtuotanto
FINLAND
51
2013
Jussi Haapalainen
VEDEN SAARTAMAT: OSA 5
MERENKURKUSSA
DocArt
FINLAND
29
FINLAND
30
2013
67.
108.
120.
151.
2013
Tiina Saario & Petteri
Saario
WALKER
Art Slow Ltd
2012
Eero Heinonen
KURKIRANNIKOLLA
Eero Murtomäki, Ari
Valkola, Juhani Koivusari
FINLAND
45
Sini Vuorialho
FINLAND
5
2014
159.
LUONTONI, MY NATURE
2014
6
7
Category 4.1 : Low Budget
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
16.
22.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
KEEPERS OF THE BEAT
Silver Fir Media
USA
18
2013
Donald O'Brien, Jerry
Freilich
WE ARE RHINO
Spencer Austin
UK
22
Tristan Thompson
PERU
29
Quentin Marquet
FRANCE
52
Madalena Boto, Alexandre
Vaz
PORTUGAL
32
Acajú Comunicación
Ambiental, Arturo Menor
SPAIN
61
2013
48.
AN UNTAMED WILDERNESS
2013
58.
TERNS AND SALT-WORKERS
2014
101.
THE DESERT ISLANDS
2014
147.
WILDMED, THE LAST
MEDITERRANEAN FOREST
2014
7
8
Category 4.2 : Short
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
2.
31.
45.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
SPOTTER COME-HOME
Giuseppe Bucciarelli
ITALY
7
2012
TERRA CONSERVATION
FILMS
ANIMAL PARK
D.REPUBLIC
OF CONGO /
ITALY
9
2014
Office Number Four Afea,
Edoardo Picciolo, Antonio
Spanò, Francesco Picciolo
WINTER BIRDWATCHING IN JERSEY
CITY
Tommy Dunstan & John
Dunstan
USA
16
SHARK REPORT FROM FIJI
Submarines Foundation
NETHERLA
NDS
6
2012
Edward Snijders
2014
56.
FIJI
ISLANDS
121.
NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS
Ian A Nelson
USA
11
Sergei Mahov
BELARUS
10
2014
153.
UNWANTED SPECIES
2014
8
9
Category 5: Science
REF
nr
12.
TITLE / Production year
IN THE MIND OF PLANTS
2011
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
Jacques Mitsch/ K
Production / Arte /
Discovery Science / SBS /
SVT / RTBF / VRT / RTP /
DRTV
COUNTRY
RT
min
FRANCE
52
24
34.
42.
THE COSMIC RAIN
E291 Science Films
2012
Daniel Vega Martínez
ACID OCEAN
360 Degrees Films, Sally
Ingleton, Peter
Zakharov/Simon Enderby
2013
47.
THE SECRET OF THE APES NARROWING THE GAP,
SPAIN
AUSTRALIA 50
Hoferichter & Jacobs
GmbH Olaf Jacobs, Axel
Friedrich & Eva Demmler
GERMANY
52
TROODOS AND THE BIRTH OF CYPRUS
Anadysis Films
CYPRUS
50
2011
Paschalis Papapetrou
UNNATURAL SELECTION
SKY VISION for TERRA
MATER FACTUAL
STUDIOS GMBH, Steve
Nicholls, Sarah Whalley
AUSTRIA
53
URINE SUPERPOWERS
MONALISA PRODUCTIONS
FRANCE
52
2013
Russell
2013
59.
146.
2013
166.
Thierry Berrod / Quincy
9
10
Category 6: Water & Underwater
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
9.
41.
57.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
GIANTS OF THE DEEP
Ocean Pix, Andrea Ramalho
GERMANY
60
2012 Underwater
Ralf Kiefner, Peter
Spielmann
SHARK GIRL
2013 Underwater
Kaufmann Productions Pty
Ltd, ABC Australia,
Smithsonian Channel,
TERRA MATER Factual
Studios
IT'S EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS
Neil Curry
SOUTH
AFRICA
40
THE GIANTS OF THE OCEAN
SASER Productions
HUNGARY
26
2013 Underwater
Zsolt Sasdi
WILD BALTIC - LIFE ON THE AMBER
COAST
Doclights GmbH / NDR
Naturfilm, coraxfilm
GmbH, Britta Kiesewetter,
Christoph Hauschild
GERMANY
48
Doclights GmbH / NDR
Naturfilm, Macro TeleFilm, Britta Kiesewetter,
Svenja & Ralph Schieke
GERMANY
50
NatFilm Hungary Kft.
HUNGARY
52
Erika Bagladi, Szabolcs
Mosonyi
SLOVAKIA
AUSTRALIA 58
2013 Water
81.
89.
2014 Water
95.
EUROPE´S WILD RIVER - THE ELBE
2013 Water
103.
SZIGETKÖZ - THE INLAND DELTA OF
THE RIVER DANUBE
2013 Water
GERMANY
10
11
86.
SECRETS OF THE NORTH SEA
2013 Underwater
144.
SECRETS OF THE EEL
2013 Water
145.
THE NILE – THE ULTIMATE RIVER
EPISODE 1: MOUNTAINS OF THE
MOON
2014 Water
Doclights GmbH / NDR
Naturfilm, Jörn Röver,
Klaus Müller
GERMANY
90
RED LINE FILMS and
THIRTEEN in CoProduction with TERRA
MATER Factual Studios,
Fritz Mitchell, Peter
Franchella
AUSTRIA
51
TERRA MATER Factual
Studios with NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
in association with
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS,
WDR produced by
COSMOS FACTORY
FILMPRODUKTION
AUSTRIA
50
Harald Pokieser, Clare
Dornan
11
12
Category 7: Food & Agriculture
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
30.
BEKENDOR
2013
43.
GREATS
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
”Ukrkinokhronika” SE
Ukrainian Documentary
Films Studio, Anastasiya
Kharchenko
UKRAINE
30
MANUTRILLO
SPAIN
58
2014
46.
HARVESTERS OF THE BAY
LVP, Anthony Dickinson & FRANCE/UK 52
Oliver Dickinson
2013
62.
78.
THE ROOTS OF CYPRUS WINE
Anadysis Films
2011
Paschalis Papapetrou
THE BACKYARD JUNGLE - HARVEST
TIME
2014
124.
TRIUMPH OF THE TOMATO
2014
CYPRUS
50
nautilusfilm GmbH Natural History for
Doclights GmbH/NDR
Naturfilm
GERMANY
45
ORF & MR-Film in assoc.
with ARTE, CCTV-9,
Austrian Television Fund &
Film Fund Vienna, MariaMagdalena Koller
AUSTRIA
50
12
13
CHILDREN AND YOUTH COMPETITION
FINALISTS
Category 8: Children Films
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
37.
ONCE UPON A TREE
Marleen van der Werf
NETHERLANDS
15
VASH- VISH
SUNCHILD FESTIVAL
ARMENIA
14
2013
Foundation for the
Preservation of Wildlife
and Cultural Assets, SOS
culture youth club members
YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMMOROW
SUNCHILD FESTIVAL
ARMENIA
11
2013
Foundation for the
Preservation of Wildlife
and Cultural Assets
Sunchild eco club
members
I DREAMT OF A CHOCOLATE
SCHOOL
FESTIVAL
CONTRIBUTION
GREECE
6
2014
3rd Primary School of
Loutraki,Dimitrakopoulou
Harikleia, Nikos
Theodosiou
P J BLADH’S KASKO
WILDLIFE VAASA
FESTIVAL
FINLAND
15
2013
114.
115.
118.
150.
2013
MEDIA EDUCATION
PROJECT Ilias Missyris,
Vesa Heinonen Carita
Nyström
13
14
Category 9: Youth Films
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
6.
MY FOREST
Sebastien Pins
BELGIUM
7
Boris Godfroid
BELGIUM
5
ADAPTING ANOLIS
Tom Rowland Film
UNITED
KINGDOM
13
2013
Tom Rowland, Ivan
Medina
WHERE THE BEASTS STILL ROAM
Simon Goodall
UK
13
DEATH FOR A TROPHY
Africa Media
UK
7
2013
Ryan Johnson, Marta Ariza
2012
28.
LIFE ON MOSS
2013
29.
49.
2013
70.
14
15
Category 10: Animation Films
REF
nr
TITLE / Production year
25.
VIGLIA
Nadasdyfilm
2013
Marcel Barelli
FG MEDITATION ANIMATION-PART
1
Persian Meditation
Academy
2013
Farshad Nazaraghaei
ON THE WAY TO THE OASIS
Camera Zizanio Festival
2013
Animasyros 6 Film Festival
53.
110.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
PRODUCER / DRECTOR
COUNTRY
RT
min
SWITZERLAN
D
8
IRAN
48
GREECE
5
GREECE
5
GREECE
5
Christina Depian, K.
Bubnova, Ad Axem
111. I DREAM, I DON'T STEP BACK, I LIVE
117.
Camera Zizanio Festival
2013
Dina Plessa & 6th High
school of Patras
123….15
Camera Zizanio Festival
2013
9th Elementary School of
Ag. Dimitrios, Athens
Nikolaos Kamilos
15
16
WILDLIFE VAASA 2014 - SPECIAL AWARD NOMINATIONS
1. THE OSTROBOTHNIA AUSTRALIS SPECIAL AWARD
LIST OF NOMINEES:
7.
REWILDING AMERICA:
MGProductions.biz
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CAPE
COD BEAR
Maryanne Galvin
USA
52
2013
17.
FLYING AWAY
2013
Mono Collective, Bulgarian
Society for the Protection of
Birds, Simeon Tsonchev
BULGARIA 40
73.
THE TIME-HOPPER : PART 1: HOLDING
TZSM PRODUCTION –
HUNGARY
ON
FILMJUNGLE Zsolt Marcell
Toth, Attila David Molnar
2014
90.
WILD BALTIC - ENCHANTED FORESTS
AND MOORS
2014
100.
SHARKS OF MEXICO
27
Doclights GmbH / NDR
GERMANY 48
Naturfilm, coraxfilm GmbH,
Britta Kiesewetter, Christoph
Hauschild
Dive Encounters Buceo
México, Gerardo del Villar
MEXICO
46
ORF & Wega Film in
association with ARTE and
bm:ukk, Ute Gebhardt
AUSTRIA
50
2014
131.
HUNTING BUDDIES - HOW DOGS
DISCOVERED MAN
2013
16
17
2. THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF OSTROBOTHNIA: OSTROBOTHNIAN SPECIAL AWARD
LIST OF NOMINEES:
35.
54.
55.
BANANA PEELS CRUISE
Epinoia
ITALY/
2013
Salvo Manzone, Luca
Casavola
FRANCE
THE SEA TURTLES OF LAMU
Slingshot Productions Africa
KENYA
2014
Lorella Jowi, D. David Morin
BOAVISTA, ON THE VERGE OF
CHANGE
Submarines Foundation &
ConID, Edward Snijders
28
63
NETHERLA 26
NDS, CAPE
VERDE
2012
85.
87.
IN SEARCH OF MARCO POLO
CROATIAN TELEVISION
2013
Miroslav Rezic, Miro
Brankovic
LUSATIA - FROM HELL TO HEAVEN
Doclights GmbH / NDR
Naturfilm, Altayfilm, Henry
M. Mix
2013
97.
POLLINATORS IN ACTION IIPOLLINATOR INSECTS
Juan Carlos Pérez Hierro
CROATIA
50
GERMANY 48
SPAIN
2014
17
26
18
3. VAASA ANDROMEDA SPECIAL AWARD
LIST OF NOMINEES:
88.
THE GREATER CAUCASUS
Doclights GmbH / NDR
Naturfilm, Altayfilm, Tom
Synnatzschke Henri M. Mix
GERMANY
50
Balkani Wildlife Society
BULGARIA
30
ORF & Kubefilm in
association with Austrian
Television Fund, Florian
Berger and Stefan Polasek
AUSTRIA
50
TERRA MATER Factual
Studios & WANDA
FILMS, José María
Morales, Joaquín Gutiérrez
Acha
TERRA MATER Factual
Studios in association with
Wanda Films, Klaus
Feichtenberger
AUSTRIA
52
AUSTRIA
52
VIPERA LIFE - A SERPENT'S TALE
FILMJUNGLE PRODS
HUNGARY
52
2014
Attila Dávid Molnár,
2014
109.
THE WILDLIFE OF SLIVNITSA
MUNICIPALITY
Iva Hristova-Nikolova
2013
123.
RETURN OF THE HOOPOE
2012
138.
GUADALQUIVIR - THE GREAT RIVER
2014
141.
LEAP OF THE LYNX
2012
152.
Zsolt Marcell Tóth
18
19
4. VAASA MUSEUMS SPECIAL AWARD
LIST OF NOMINEES:
14.
20.
32.
CERRADO- BEYOND THE MIST
bushmaster films
2013
Cristian Spencer, Marc
Egger
A LAGOON IN COMMON
Spirale Production
2013
Gwenaëlle Bron, Anne
Luart
Nisvet Hrustic
THE BLACK QUEEN
2013
113.
125.
BONAIRE BONANZA
Submarines Foundation
2014
Edward Snijders
KEEPERS OF THE ARK- A LIFE FOR
ANIMALS
2013
134.
THE EMPRESS AND THE FOREST
2012
BRAZIL
25
FRANCE
52
BOSNIA
21
AND
HERZEGOVI
NA
NETHERLA
NDS/
BONAIRE
26
ORF & Metafilm in
association with Austrian
Television Fund, Vienna
Film Fund, bm:ukk and
Cinestyria, dir.Lukas Beck
AUSTRIA
50
Thomas Rilk
Filmproduktion in
association with ORF and
Vienna Film Fund, Thomas
Rilk
AUSTRIA
50
19
20
5. VAASA INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SPECIAL AWARD
LIST OF NOMINEES:
13.
A NATURAL HISTORY OF LAUGHTER
Jacques Mitsch/ ARTE
France
FRANCE
48
Mohammad Ehsani
IRAN
30
WHO LIKES IT HOT
GREENPEACE RUSSIA
RUSSIA
48
2014
Evgeni Usov
A BREATH IN THE AEGEAN
t-shOrt, Labrini
Papadimitriou, Kyriakos
Chatzimichailidis &
Apostolis Asimakopoulos
GREECE
65
SONS OF EARTH
Ultreia Films
SPAIN
30
2014
Patxi Uriz
THE TOAD MOVIE-PART 1 POND’S
CALLING
CREATOR’S
FINGERPRINTS
FINLAND
30
2014
Jukka Seppälä
2011
Altomedia, K Production,
DocLab
33.
LADY URMIA
2013
96.
112.
2013
119.
154.
20
21
6. TERRANOVA SHORT SPECIAL AWARD
LIST OF NOMINEES:
23.
SECOND WIND
Yulia Travnikova, Sergey
Tsyss
RUSSIA
7
RISING
Richter Production
GERMANY
8
2014
Jana Richter
PATH
Vigmantas Balevicius
LITHUANIA
6
Olga Makarova
RUSSIA
15
HORIZON & NATURE
FILMS, Enrik Ballesteros,
Andoni SanGaley
SPAIN
3
UNIV. OF KASSEL / NUR
FILM GROUP Jörn
Möllenkamp, Miriam Steen
GERMANY
7
2012
40.
44.
2014
68.
DR.ALLA MASS AND THE DOLPHIN
ZONE
2013
148.
WATERLAND
2013
158.
WATERBACKPACK PAUL
2014
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