Nominated films for NaturVision 2010
Oilsand - Greed for the black gold of Canada
Profit comes before sustainability – that´s the motto of big oil companies. One example: Oil sand, Canada´s dirty wealth.
Director: Christopher Gerisch
Germany 2009 – 30 min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
Crazy business – baboons in South Africa
The South - African Baboons have few friends because they are coming into cities and villages more frequently…
Director: Angela Graas
Germany 2009 - 44min
Nominated for Bavarian Award
Following the Nomads – The eyes of the wolf
Tim Cope wants to find out more about live and history of the Nomads: Following Jenghis Khan’s trail on horses.
Director: Tim Cope
Australia 2009 - 43 min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award
Bama and the lost Gorillas
Zoo keeper Alfred Bama is father and friend at the same time for 12 gorilla orphans.
Director: Ernst Sasse, Nicky Lankester
Germany 2010 - 44:30min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film & Best Story
Chandani – The Daughter of the Elephant Whisperer
Since generations the knowledge about elephants is given from father to son in Sunamabandas family, but he has no son…
Director: Arne Birkenstock
Germany 2009 - 86min
Nominated for Best Children’s Film
Poppy’s Promise – Secret life in a cornfield
Sensational pictures invite us to a little-observed wildlife habitat right in front of our house, the cornfield.
Director: Jan Haft
Germany 2010 - 44min
Nominated for Best Camera & Best German Documentary
A Farmer, who hears the grass grow
Michael Simmel is an organic farmer. By the time in the 80ies he reorganized his farm after organic rules he was one of the first taking this step.
Director: Bertram Verhaag
Germany 2009 - 45min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film & Bavarian Award
The Deadly Treasure of Lake Kivu
There is tons of methane gas stored in the Kivusee. Scientists want to use it now.
Director: Christoph Würzburger
Germany 2010 - 43min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
The Biofuel Myth
Is the food of billions of people eaten by our cars? Are “green” politics only serving European interests? The bio fuel boom in Europe caused a food crisis in Asia.
Director: Inge Altemeier
Germany 2009 - 45min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
The Beauty and the Shark
Actress Wolke Hegenbarth is fascinated by the shark’s beauty and their skills.
Director: Florian Guthknecht
Germany 2010 - 44min
Nominated for Bavarian Award & Best German Documentary
The Show with the Mouse: Fireflies
There is a spot in Saxony at the river Elbe, where fire flies feel very comfortable.
Director: Sabine Ennulath
Germany 2010 - 8:42min
Nominated for Best Children’s Film
The Show with the Mouse: Mistletoe
Christoph learns from a “Mistletoe Expert” how he can determine the age of the mistletoe- and that they are supposed to have healing and even magical powers.
Director: Sabine Ennulath
Germany 2010 - 07:12min
Nominated for Best Children’s Film
Running with wolves
With beautiful pictures the film shows the controversial wolf and its wild neighbours in a human dominated time.
Director: Richard Matthews
Canada 2010- 45min
Nominated for Best Story
The codfishes’ dilemma
Fishermen, scientists and politicians are about to wipe out the codfish in the Baltic Sea.
Director: Folke Rydén, Ryszard Solarz
Sweden 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
Scientists under attack – Genetic engineering in the magnetic field of money
Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Can the public still trust the scientists?
Director: Bertram Verhaag
Germany 2009 - 88min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film, Bavarian Award & Best Story
Loved, Hunted, Captured – The Billion-Dollar Business with dolphins
Flipper is still fascinating, aquariums, dolphin shows and treatment centers are booming - worldwide a million dollar industry and partly Germany participates. Based on the Oscar-winning documentary “Die Bucht” this film shows at different places worldwide the connection concerning the moneymaking.
Director: Raimund Waltenberg
Germany 2010 - 30min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
Giants of the Mediterranean Sea – Following sperm whales
The secret live and surprising behavior of sperm whales in the Mediterranean Sea…
Director: Heiko De Groot
Germany 2009 - 44:20min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award
Hannes Jaenicke’s wildlife underground: sharks
Cutting-edge environmental film about the fate of an animal which is so far known as a killer: the shark.
Director: Judith Adlhoch
Germany 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
Ice Man – The Lewis Gordon Pugh Story
Lewis Pugh jumps into the ice cold Arctic Ocean. He will swim one kilometer through the Antarctic just wearing swimmers and a swimming cap.
Directors: Damon Foster, Craig Foster
South Africa 2009 - 52min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award
Into the Dragon’s Lair
Didier Noirot wants his dream to come true: diving with a dragon, a massive Nile crocodile.
Directors: Damon Foster, Craig Foster
RSA/Botswana 2009/2010 - 52min
Nominated for Best Camera
The Fight for Amazonia – Raids in the Rainforest
Ana Rafaela D’Amico is 27 years old and the youngest national park head in Brazil. To save the Rainforest she fights against drug gangs, logging and illegal fishing.
Director: Thomas Wartmann
Germany 2010 - 43min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
Caravan of the Books – Kenyas Camel Library
In the north of Kenya the only camel library in the world carries new reading material – schoolbooks, novels and comics – through the pathless savanna to the nomads.
Director: Herbert Ostwald
Germany 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Best Story
Intelligent Plants
The green favorites are capable of more than just growing and blooming. Filmmakers are overhearing the whisper of beans and trees and the cry for help of the tobacco plant…
Director: Volker Arzt
Germany 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Best Camera & Grand Prix NaturVision
Lizard Kings
They look like little dragons and are the origin of many tales about fire-spitting monsters: goannas are the biggest lizards in the world.
Director: Gisela Kaufmann
Australia 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Best Story, Best Camera & Grand Prix NaturVision
Land of the Painted Mountains
On an adventurous journey a small group of teenagers make their way through an unexplored world of mountains.
Director: Robert Morgenstern
Germany/Canada 2010 - 45min
Nominated for Best Children’s Film, Expedition Adventure Award, Best Conservation/Sustainability Film & Newcomer and Amateurs Award
Love at snail’s pace
The life and love of the escargot.
Directors: Egon und Maria Lackinger
Austria 2008 - 13min
Nominated for Newcomer and Amateurs Award
Titmice - Life in the opposing wind
The film shows how the little birds survive while facing different dangerous situations.
Director: Eberhard Meyer
Germany 2010 - 44min
Nominated for Bavarian Award
Mission Gombessa
The Coelacanth. This animal became Hans Fricke’s life task and since more than 20 years he solved many of his mysteries.
Director: Jan Haft
Germany 2010 - 45min
Nominated for Bavarian Award
Monkey Thieves – Searching for Sanctuary
Although the ,,Galta Gang” manages to keep their lives pretty much in the balance, it appears external forces have been working against them…
Director: Richard Kirby
India/UK 2009 - 25min
Nominated for Best Children’s Film
Mount St. Helens – Life from Zero
Until today the hillside of Mount St. Helens is closed for public, only scientist Charlie Crisafulli is living here since 27 years…
Directors: Jörg Daniel Hissen, Heinz Leger
Austria 2010 - 51:21min
Nominated for Grand Prix NaturVision
Shark Night
For two days and one night Mike Rutzen drifts himself through the ocean of southern Africa to achieve a deeper understanding of sharks and their lives.
Directors: Joe Kennedy, Ronet Van Der Valt
South Africa 2010 - 52min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award & Best Camera
Electricity in the fuel tank
The electric car: A portrait of movers and shakers and visionaries.
Director: Daniel Münter
Germany 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Conservation/Sustainability Film
Rift Valley – The animal kingdom
Along the more than 6.000 kilometres of fault line between East Africa and the Arabic peninsula, from the Lebanon all the way to Mozambique the grinder of the continents changed the appearance of the place into an extraterrestrial world.
Director: Harald Pokieser
Austria 2009 - 52:48min
Nominated for Grand Prix NaturVision
Broken Tail’s Last Journey
We are all in demand to save the tiger – the master of the jungle – for distinction.
Directors: Colin Stafford-Johnson, John Murray
Ireland 2009 - 43min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award
The Invisible Bird Photographer
Pictures by Bence Máté: How does this dedicated young man manage to win every imaginable photography-prize worldwide?
Director: Attila David Molnar & Zsolt Marcell Toth
Hungary 2009- 25min
Nominated for Best Camera
Deep in the rainforest – Under the spell of the caiman
An adventure deep in the jungle and the search of one of the biggest still living saurian: the big caiman.
Directors: Marion Pöllmann, Rainer Bergomaz
Germany 2009 – 43 min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award
81 degrees north – Following the ice bears
The arctic ice is melting, which causes huge problems for the few ice bears still living in the wild.
Director: Kai Schubert
Germany 2010 - 30min
Nominated for Best Conservation/Sustainability Film
„Wiener Gstettn“ – Wilderness in cities
Disused land is often the last place of retreat for wild animals in the city. But this wilderness is shaped by coming and going and by the fight for survival.
Director: Thomas Rilk
Austria 2009 - 50:30min
Nominated for Grand Prix NaturVision
Wild Pyrenees – Mountains of light
Mediterranean climate enchants the Pyrenees during summer times, nurtures millions of flowers and creates an animal world with lots of different species.
Director: Jürgen Eichinger
Germany 2010 - 44min
Nominated for Bavarian Award, Best Camera, Best German Documentary & Grand Prix NaturVision
Wild Japan – Snow Monkeys and volcanoes
Japan: stunning pictures of the empire with its breathtaking landscapes and seldom animals.
Directors: Thoralf Grospitz, Jens Westphalen
Germany 2010 - 44:30min
Nominated for Best Camera, Best German Documentary & Grand Prix NaturVision
Wild Rumania – Land of bears and wolves
In the southeast of Europe lies a natural treasure which looks for his equals: Romania.
Director: Thomas Willers
Germany 2009 - 44:30min
Nominated for Best Camera & Best German Documentary
Desert experience – The run through the desert
At the “Marathon des Sables” through the Sahara participate around 800 runners. They run the hardest Marathon of the world but they haven’t been so happy before.
Director: Gerhard Schick
Germany, Morocco 2009 - 52min
Nominated for Expedition Adventure Award
