Pit no. 8 (0+)
“Silver Nanook” Award for the best feature film
Estonia, Ukraine, 2010, 95 min.
Director: Marianna Kaat
Director: Marianna Kaat
THE PLACE – the mining town Snizhne (meaning "snowy") is a coal-mining centre in Eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk Basin coalfield. In Soviet times, the miners of the Donetsk region were acclaimed as heroes and seen as epitomizing the backbone of the country's industrial might. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and during the painful transition to capitalism, many mines were closed down, and thousands of people found themselves without any future. In order to survive, the miners had to start mining coal illegally. The film was shot for two and a half years in the Donetsk region where the lately elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych spend his troubled childhood and where he strarted his political career.
AWARDS
Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award & The Nicholas School Environmental Award - Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA 2011; Special Mention - 14th Tallinn Black Nights FF, Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition; Film of the year 2010 - Estonian Cultural Endowment; Movies That Matter Special Mention - ZagrebDox 2011, Croatia.
Marianna Kaat
Marianna Kaat
was born and lives in Estonia, Tallinn. She graduated from the St.Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy in Russia in 1986 with a PhD. Until 1991 she worked as a script editor and a director for Eesti Telefilm and thereafter as the acquisition manager for Estonian Television. In 1998 she founded her own production company Baltic Film Production. Marianna is the member of European Documentary Network (EDN); she is also the member of Estonian Producer’s Union, Estonian Film Union and Estonian Journalists Union. She was awarded the name of The European Trailblazer.
FILMOGRAPHY
"Now Not Only Off-shore", 1989; "In Your Own Words", 1990; "The Last Phantoms", 2006; "Black Nights FF", 2010; "Pit No 8", 2010.
“Silver Nanook” Award for the best feature film
Estonia, Ukraine, 2010, 95 min.
Director: Marianna Kaat
Director: Marianna Kaat
THE PLACE – the mining town Snizhne (meaning "snowy") is a coal-mining centre in Eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk Basin coalfield. In Soviet times, the miners of the Donetsk region were acclaimed as heroes and seen as epitomizing the backbone of the country's industrial might. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and during the painful transition to capitalism, many mines were closed down, and thousands of people found themselves without any future. In order to survive, the miners had to start mining coal illegally. The film was shot for two and a half years in the Donetsk region where the lately elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych spend his troubled childhood and where he strarted his political career.
AWARDS
Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award & The Nicholas School Environmental Award - Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA 2011; Special Mention - 14th Tallinn Black Nights FF, Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition; Film of the year 2010 - Estonian Cultural Endowment; Movies That Matter Special Mention - ZagrebDox 2011, Croatia.