Gathering firewood
Original title Küttepuude hankimine
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The film follows a group of Nenets women gathering firewood in a snow-covered tundra. It is part of a larger series exploring the daily life of nomadic reindeer pastoralists on the Yamal Peninsula in Western Siberia during the calving season in the spring. The footage for the series was captured during a three-month ethnographic fieldwork in 1999.
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Author/s Liivo Niglas
Liivo Niglas is an Estonian documentary filmmaker and anthropologist. He runs an independent production company, MP DOC, for anthropological documentary films. He studied documentary filmmaking at Ateliers Varan, Paris, France. He has made films in Siberia, Africa, Central Asia, and North America. His films have won numerous awards, including the Prix IUCN at the Vision du Reel in Switzerland, Golden Olive at the Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival in Greece, Grand Prix at the International Festival of Ethnological Film in Serbia, Basil Wright Prize at the RAI Film Festival in UK, the Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for best documentary, and the National Estonian Film and Television Award for best documentary.
Research Liivo Niglas
Photography Liivo Niglas
Sound Liivo Niglas
Editing Liivo Niglas, Marju Juhkum