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Field of Magic (16+)

Lithuania, 2011, colour, 62 min.
Director: Mindaugas Survila
Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.

AWARDS

2012 Audience Award at Brisbane International Film Festival (Australia), 2012 Audience Award at Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films-Human Rights film festival (Lithuania), 2012 3rd place in Lithuanian Competition at Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival (Lithuania), 2012 Best Documentary 2012 at National Film and TV awards «Silver Crane», 2009 ExOriente The Golden Funnel Award for the best developed project.

Mindaugas Survila

Mindaugas Survila

Born on 4 February 1984. In 2005 took a bachelor degree of Biology at Vilnius University, faculty of Natural sciences, and in 2007 – master degree of Ecology and environmental researches. Has been photographing nature since his childhood, and during study years he started filming. Since 2007 he spends half of workweek working as an operator in various TV channels, and another half – filming and photographing nature. The Field of Magic” is the first movie of Mindaugas Survila, telling a story of people, not animals.

FILMOGRAPHY

«Meeting the ospreys», 2006; « Field of Magic», 2011.
Lithuania, 2011, colour, 62 min.
Director: Mindaugas Survila
Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.

AWARDS

2012 Audience Award at Brisbane International Film Festival (Australia), 2012 Audience Award at Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films-Human Rights film festival (Lithuania), 2012 3rd place in Lithuanian Competition at Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival (Lithuania), 2012 Best Documentary 2012 at National Film and TV awards «Silver Crane», 2009 ExOriente The Golden Funnel Award for the best developed project.