Its a documentarians dream: incredibly charismatic protagonists, majestic landscapes, underlying social issues, and a classic David and Goliath tale. Aimoldir Dayanbek and her father, Mana Dayanbek. It's a nice way they supplement their base income of herding. Dick Grayson grew up, keeping his identity as Robin into adulthood after Bruce Wayne retired from crime-fighting and married Selina Kyle, better known as Catwoman. "What a baby sees in the nest, it then repeats when it grows up.". Well, I mean, Aisholpan is amazing. It shows how strong women are.". Interview with Otto Bell. The Eagle Huntress is a 2016 internationally co-produced Kazakh-language documentary film directed by Otto Bell and narrated by executive producer Daisy Ridley. But then when you get back home and you don't have any money left and it all gets a bit depressing he helped build a village of people around me.". The Eagle Huntress, a documentary about a Kazakh nomad girl in Mongolia learning to hunt with a golden eagle, divides opinion. We'd sleep in the ger [traditional Mongolian nomadic tent] at night, like ducks in a row. If you've never seen Eaglecam, you're in for a treat.That and much more is on display in the documentary "The Eagle Huntress," opening in L.A. on Wednesday.Shot in the r 2016. They're busy. The Eagle Huntress is the soaring tale of an adolescent girl, 13 at the time filming began, training hard and fighting for her passion. Man in Peru Caught Out Drinking With an 800-year-old Mummy! The language isn't there. [18][19][20] A 2014 article by a consultant on the film, Dennis Keen, suggests that women in Aisholpan's region faced a "knee-jerk reaction based on a traditionalist understanding of society and the sexes," such that their achievements "are dismissed by nearly every prominent falconer in Central Asia" because they represented "a serious disturbance in how things are done. In all, the men of the Nurgaiv clan have been hunting with eagles for 12 generations. Bell: I found her through a BBC photo diary by an young Israeli photographer called Asher Svidensky. http://realscreen.com/2016/02/12/celluloid-dreams-picks-up-the-eagle-huntress/, Saito, Stephen. Competitions; Wanderlust magazine . How to Make Money as a Cinematographer is a new in-depth online course from No Film School, available now. Kids & Family. Historian of Central Asian falconry Takuya Soma points out that falconry disappeared in other less open, sedentary societies. FIG 2.7. The Eagle Huntress is an amazing documentary. "Expert Falconers to Gather in Kokshetu." ", Aisholpan's performance at the competition provides the film with a climax of sorts, but to Bell it felt too much like a sports movie. She is the daughter of Shohan, a prominent eagle hunter in Mongolia. The Eagle Huntress trailer: a soaring tale of success against the odds Guardian The result is a joyful, majestic film - a documentary (narrated by Star Wars' Daisy Ridley) that feels like a. Adrienne Mayor , Research Scholar in Classics and History of Science, Stanford University, is the author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (2014), and The Poison King: Mithradates, Romes Deadliest Enemy , nonfiction finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. Bell: Yeah, absolutely. Directors Otto Bell Starring Aisholpan Nurgaiv Genres Sports, Documentary, Adventure Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English Just mountains, tents, gers, and goats. Bell has a series of elder-statesmen in the rarefied world of eagle hunting address the camera with their views: it's not for girls; women should make tea, not hunt; women are not strong enough. That was the question for Simon Niblett, director of photography of documentary The Eagle Huntress, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is planned to unspool during the Telluride. NFS: So you had several different cameras? So he put them in the film. They found the remains of an adolescent couple from 4000 years ago in Last week, Ancient Origins reported on the fascinating discovery of a golden treasure left by the ancient Saka people in a burial mound in Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, in 2009-2013, the eagle hunter Kukan taught a young American woman, Lauren McGough, to be a brkitshi. (Photo courtesy of Stefan Cruysberghs) In February 2015, Bell and his team went back to film the final act, in which Aisholpan and her father trek on horseback into the Altai mountains in deepest winter to capture a fox. Soma, Takuya. I imagine they don't watch a lot of media, so how did you convince them of what you were trying to do? In the 7th century AD, the Byzantine Empire harnessed the power of fire with the creation of Greek fire, a weapon of destruction unlike any before its time. There isn't much in the way of media out there, but they are used to cameras. "Ethnoarchaeology of Ancient Falconry in East Asia." These stunning photographs show the changing face of a majestic centuries old Kazakh pastime tradition that still lives in the lands of mongolia - eagle hunters. The film's soundtrack features the original song "Angel by the Wings" by Sia, which was released worldwide on 2 December 2016. I didn't go away. 2014. Simply finding them was a challenge "they're nomadic, so it was like, 'oh yeah, I think they're over that mountain'," Bell says but the effort was worthwhile. (Photo courtesy of Stefan Cruysberghs) The Eagle Huntress is so beautifully shot you'd almost book passage to visit this isolated world in Mongolia by the China border. Otto Bell, director of The Eagle Huntress. for only $13.00 $11.05/page. FIG 2.10. When you see this little girl in pigtails, with a pink ribbon in her hair scaling a mountainside, I knew I had something. Svidensky's photo essay of Aisholpan posing with her father's eagle went viral in 2014. Her older brother had joined the army and Aisholpan was helping to carry on the family legacy. [8] Director Otto Bell said of Ridley, "Like so many other theatergoers around the world, I was blown away by Daisy's recent portrayal of an empowered female protagonist [Rey in The Force Awakens]. Alfred joins Helena at the grave site of Bruce Wayne. FIG 2.2. But you know she'll never be able to hack it in winter.' This fact is confirmed by several well-known Kazakh eagle hunters such as Agii Makhsum in Mongolia, and by other female brkitshi in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. <br /><br />Set in the beautifully mountains of Bayan -Ulgii province, in the far west of the open steppes of . Our open community is dedicated to digging into the origins of our species on planet earth, and question wherever the discoveries might take us. "[9], The documentary was a New York Times Critics Pick[10] and an LA Times Critics Pick. 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How lucky we all are to have known her, and how awful that we have to say . (Photo courtesy of Meghan Fitz-James). During the Soviet era, eagle hunting waned but began to reemerge in the late 20th century, with annual eagle contests, like the Sayat festival at Nura, Kazakhstan. There was a lot of tears and a lot of happiness. The Eagle Huntress, a breathtaking . He built this nine-meter crane that folds away into a snowboard bag and weighs only 25 kilos. 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When we ask an average European family on a trip to India what they are hoping to see, their preference and plan, the answer we tend to get is: the beautiful Taj Mahal. And also, congratulations to the filmmaker for such a stunning work, I too look at some pictures and think about the cinematic possibilities behind them, but you really went ahead and made it. I grew up riding in school. Having guests has a true intrinsic importance to their lives. Shes the most important critic. We caught up with her to find out what life's like in Mongo. But the fundamentals of the film are confirmed by Aisholpan herself. September 19, 2016 at 10:05AM, Edited September 19, 10:05AM. It took up my entire life savings of $80,000. At the end of The Eagle Huntress, Aisholpan: kills a fox and finally becomes an eagle huntress. ", Aisholpan hunting for foxes in the Altai mountains.Credit:Sony Pictures Entertainment. Kazakh families are deeply committed to preserving their ancient legacy. Photographer's Blog, Reuters, March 6. http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/03/06/kazakhstans-lone-female-eagle-hunter/. 2013. 2016. An extraordinary young woman, Aisholpan has become an empowering example for girls around the world. Truly overnight, he introduced me financiers. It's true, too, that he felt he had the makings of a cool little fable about female empowerment on his hands if only he could make it. We would rope the door of that open and then have the Steadicam in the side door, and that was how we did our tracking shots to see when they were galloping down across the tundra in the snow. After the competition, she takes the final step toward becoming an eagle hunter by traveling with her father to the mountains in the winter to hunt foxes, braving snowy conditions and extreme cold. We shot the film principally on a RED Epic in 5K. Released November 2nd, 2016, 'The Eagle Huntress' stars Daisy Ridley, Nurgaiv Aisholpan, Nurgaiv Rys, Alma Dalaykhan The G movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 27 min, and received a user score of 71 . As a movie, "The Eagle Huntress" would have made a great . He had stumbled across her in the outside mountains of northwest Mongolia. What would you say to other filmmakers who find ourselves in the position that you were in, like, Shit. With her broad face, perfect teeth and sparkling eyes, Aisholpan could have come straight from central casting. Produced by Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang, Otto Bell. The father likes to sit outside anyway, he likes to watch the goats. Looking forward to seeing this. I didn't go away. Bell: Oh, it was the biggest whim of my life. Her achievements are impressive. These stunning photographs show the changing face of a majestic centuries old Kazakh pastime tradition that still lives in the lands of mongolia - eagle hunters. And it's true that when he first saw that image of Aisholpan, he knew there was something zeitgeisty in it. Any telling of her story would carry a female empowerment message, even if this film does milk it for all its worth. Bell: They're a very hospitable people. The pair of them have done a fantastic job. I contacted him on Facebook, we Skyped, and very quickly we decided to head out there and talk to the family about making a film. Therefore, the director strives to depict the picture of modern eagle hunting in Mongolia through Aisholpan's story. It gave me the inspiration to win," she says. Asian Conference on Asian Studies, International Academic Forum. They sound typically patriarchal and hidebound, but gee they look good, sitting cross-legged in their gers (portable tents similar to yurts) resplendent in their handcrafted finery. Your story takes place in the middle of the wilderness. I think if we didn't have him and that understanding of the landscape, we'd probably still be out there trying to shoot, trying to finish it. It is little wonder, perhaps, that Ridley embraced the . I also printed out [protagonist] Aisholpans photographs and physically posted them to the Warrior Poets' office. There is always a way to finish your film. Nomad Women Have Hunted with Eagles since Antiquity. One of my biggest expensestruly, of my life savingswas excess luggage. He is a two-time champion in the annual Golden Eagle festival; his father was a champion, too. In The Eagle Huntress, who is Aisholpan's main advocate? Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis? Incredible. Watching the film, a cynical viewer may fear that Aisholpan has been coached when she says: "Girls can do anything if they try." Asher Svidensky's photo that inspired 'The Eagle Huntress'Credit: Asher Svidensky NFS: Some documentary filmmakers embed ourselves in a situation, and others go in and out. It looks like 30 people shot it, but in reality it was only three of us. Interview with Otto Bell, Jan. 30. http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2016/01/otto-bell-eagle-huntress.html, Svidensky, Asher. "There's quite a bit of peacocking involved they grab their furs, they sit in state.". You never want to stop them. Eagle huntress at Nura Eagle Festival, Kazakhstan, 2013 (Ruta Production/Shutterstock), FIG 2.4. Except I'd stayed longer than their average tourist. Aisholpan Nurgaiv, the rosy-cheeked 13-year-old heroine, is trained by her father to hunt on horseback with a golden eagle - traditionally a male pursuit - and shocks everyone by winning the prestigious eagle-hunters' competition held annually in the town of Ulgii, in north-western Mongolia. The only artistic licence he took, he insists, is the opening sequence in which a hunter sets his bird free (the Kazakhs release their eagles after seven years, deeming them to have entered the stage of their lives when they are ready to become parents themselves). "I was looking around at pop culture at that time and you had Khaleesi, the mother of dragons [from Game of Thrones], you had Katniss Everdeen [from The Hunger Games], you had Rey [from Star Wars: The Force Awakens]. For centuries, her Kazakh family's. He got me a place to edit. "I get it; I understand why the cynical critics pooh-pooh it. That one, he says, came out of order, but nothing else did. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 94% approval rating based on 126 reviews with an average rating of 7.41/10. It was called one of the most significant finds Shambhala, which is a Sanskrit word meaning place of peace or place of silence, is a mythical paradise spoken of in ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra and the ancient scriptures of the Zhang Zhung culture which predated Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet. The Eagle Huntress needs no phony clashes or extensive re-enactments, for its hero is 13 year old Aisholpan, from Asia's Altai Mountains, the first female Kazakh in twelve generations to be a bona fide eagle huntress. FIG 2.1. The Eagle Huntress follows the story of Aisholpan, a 13-year-old Kazakh girl from Mongolia, as she attempts to become the first female eagle hunter to compete in the eagle festival at Ulgii, Mongolia, established in 1999. At the 2013 festival in Nura she was awarded a prize by virtue of being the only female competing. I am sure you are familiar with his legend which states that he was born in a manger surrounded by shepherds, about The Unfinished Timurid Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, about Tamgaly Petroglyphs: Rituals, Shaman and Nomads Treasures, about Silk Road Cat Pushes Back Central Asia Domestication to 8th-century AD. Kyrgyzstan's Salburun festival began in 1997; Mongolia's festival began in Ulgii in 1999. Variety, July 16. http://variety.com/2014/film/news/kissaki-films-otto-bell-to-direct-ashol-pan-documentary-eagle-huntress-1201263741/, Cruysberghs, Stefan. Film Review 'The Eagle Huntress'. BBC News Magazine , April 14. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26969150, Mosbergen, Dominique. In April 2014, the New York-based Englishman saw an online image of her setting an eagle free. "Her bravery and her feats in that eagle hunting contest are really amazing and inspiring," she says. Why Are You Sleeping on the Killer Feature of the Fujifilm X-H2 Line? Thegoal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe. "A 13-year-old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia." Spurlock set him up with producers, editors, space to work on it. "The first time I saw Aisholpan, having flown across the world to see her, was incredible," Bell has said. The Eagle Huntress Has Landed.Aishol-Pan in Wonderland . The Eagle Huntress, a documentary about a Kazakh nomad girl in Mongolia learning to hunt with a golden eagle, divides opinion. The traditional test of a brkitshi is a successful hunting trip on horseback. This line was recast to say that Aisholpan is "the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family" to be an eagle huntress. The Eagle Huntress is a documentary that tells the story of Aisholpan, a 13-year old Kazakh girl living in the remote Altai Mountains of Mongolia, who is determined to become an eagle hunter like her father - despite the fact that it's a tradition usually reserved for men. I was blessed by such elders as Tleubek Esimbek, Aben Toktasynov, Seitzhan Kodekov. Williams, Maynard Owen. 2014. Dec. 2, 2016. NFS: Tell me about the crew set-up. The story of the Eagle Huntress is simple and heartwarming. THE EAGLE HUNTRESS is a coming-of-age documentary that tells the story of 13-year-old Aisholpan's desire to be the first female eagle hunter in 12 generations of her family. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan 10. http://www.startribune.com/mongolian-visit-takes-flight-with-eagle-hunting/288072881/#1. [25] The filmmakers made Aisholpan and her family "profit participants" in the documentary and established a fund to help pay for Aisholpan's higher education. Touching 4,000-Year-Old Royal Double Burial Found in Kazakhstan, Archaeologists Unearth the Golden Man of the Saka Burial Mound in Kazakhstan. Aisulu, at age 5, teaching a young eagle to balance while perched on a horse. THE EAGLE HUNTRESS is executive produced and narrated by STAR WARS's Daisy Ridley. The Eagle Huntress is on limited release nationally from March 16. The film features a 13-year-old girl tackling the powerful and violent act of hunting game deep in the mountainous Kazhak wildernessa tradition which has not been taken on by any other female in its 12-generation history. 2012. It was actually quite a dark time. Bell: When we did get money and things started to take off, we flew Simon over to sit with the colorist for a week and do the final mix. HD. When you've got a mother eagle circling above, threatening to descend on you, you tend to do things pretty quickly.". Bell: We lived together. Except the conflict never really happens. We didn't stage anything.". In addition, although Dennis Keen served as a voluntary film consultant to Otto Bell, he failed to discover the existence of other Kazakh eagle festival participants such as Akbota Bagashar, or Gulaida Zhorobekova, an eagle (and other birds of prey) falconer of Kyrgyzstan, both of whom also preceded Aisholpan Nurgaiv in terms of female engagement in eagle falconry in Central Asia. The film's dialog is in Kazakh; the narration is in English. (Photo by Terry Allen). Thanks, everyone! Aisholpan's goal is to be the first woman to take part in the annual Golden Eagle Festival in the Mongolian provincial capital of Olgii, an event that her father has won twice and in which she . They also misrepresent the historical independence of women in Kazkah and Mongolian culture. It is up for a Bafta award on Sunday night but missed out on an. "I thought we need to throw the kitchen sink at this thing, to do justice to this big landscape and these remarkable characters," he says. The recent Huntress mini has revealed that the current Huntress is in fact Helena Wayne, and that Helena Bertinelli is an alias of hers in the current continuity. Trained golden eagles have served Kazakh hunters of Mongolia for a millennium, and eagle hunting is a skill traditionally passed down from father to son. I actually went in debt with the bank for another $12,000. "It was all laid out for me. Aisholpan and her father Agalai, Eagle Festival, Ulgii, Mongolia, 2014. Watch the Trailer Here! December 20, 2016 at 1:44AM, Edited December 20, 1:54AM. "It looks like 30 people shot it, but in reality it was only three of us.". Marianne Williamson Signals 2024 Presidential Run. I just didn't know how to get it finished. On "The Eagle Huntress" documentary film rights. It is obvious to any astronomer that some of the brightest objects in the night sky are the planets. On Sunday March 12, Melbourne's Cinema Nova and Cameo Belgrave will host preview screenings with wedge-tailed eagle demonstrations. Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a 13-year-old girl living with her nomadic family in Mongolia's Altai mountains, a harsh, unforgiving place of isolation and physical duress. Lauren McGough, American eagle huntress in Mongolia, 2009-2013. ", "In retrospect, it was the biggest gamble I've ever taken.". Move heaven and earth. We knew they would do things five, 10, 20 times until she got it right. A soaring documentary of a feminist journey, an Israeli screwball comedy, Black Swan for kids, and a . of gear, about 28 Pelican cases. "People say 'oh, this is staged, it's too good to be true'," observes director Otto Bell of the backlash against the film in some quarters. Fair Winds Trade From the Aegean to Egypts Amarna, Translation of 5,500-Year-Old Babel Text from China Reveals Oldest Known Map of Inner Solar System, 3: The Perfect Number - Trinity Symbolism in World Religious Traditions, The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts, Evidence that Noahs Ark Landed on a Mountain 17 Miles South of Ararat. Karl Quinn is on facebook at karlquinnjournalist and on Twitter @karlkwin. BBC News video, Dec. 23. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16315799, Tashenov, Chingiz. As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. Another scene that sceptics find questionable comes when Aisholpan's father, Agalai, gets his own father to give his blessing to Aisholpan's eagle-hunting ambitions. Women can compete in horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Aisholpan, a 13-year-old Kazakh girl from Mongolia, commits to a family tradition going back 12 generations. How did you do it? Bell: Yeah, we drove back to the village every night right on the border there between Mongolia and China. 2015. "The blessing scene - he said he was going to do this, I just asked him to do it outside. They're intense, and they're determined to hunt. Congratulations to nofilmschool for such a great article. Congratulations NFS and thank you for writing this article. Anyone strong enough to carry an eagle can begin apprenticeship with one's own eagle. "That would have been enough in the film. We took about 700 kilos [1500 lbs.] It feels seamless despite having GoPro, C300s, and Epics. They were very grateful. I saw his spellbinding work, and was like, "There's got to be a film behind that photo." 2014. As a child she helped her father with his eagle and at 13 Makpal began training her own eagle Ak Zhelke (White Neck). Despite her criticisms of the film, the historian Adrienne Mayor agrees that Aisholpan is a worthy heroine. The film took another culture's traditions, he goes on, and translated them "into the tired platitudes of a second-rate Disney animation". And so, the central conflict of The Eagle Huntress is established: a young girl wants to follow her passion. But while the academic Adrienne Mayor suggests Bell went searching for these naysayers in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in Andrews' latest article about the film Bell says he just went round knocking on elders' doors, and all openly voiced disapproval. No Film School: How does someone who is making their first first film get Stacey Reiss, Morgan Spurlock, and Daisy Ridley on board? "The pressure gave me more will and power. "Visiting Makpal Abdrazakova," Nov. 26-27. Children commonly help to care for the eagles, go along on hunts, and attend eagle festivals. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. A Mongol horsewoman-eagle huntress who became a celebrity in Europe in the 1920s was Princess Nirgidma (1907-1983). Ulgii Festival photographs, Sept. 21. http://www.scip.be/index.php?Page=PhotosMongolia&Lang=EN&ID=2941, Kysar, Kathryn. The Beast with an insatiable Hunger for Human Flesh, Film Footage Provides Intimate View of HMS Gloucester Shipwreck, Top 8 Legendary Parties - Iconic Celebrations in Ancient History, The Spanish Inquisition: The Truth Behind the Black Legend (Part II), The Spanish Inquisition: The Truth behind the Dark Legend (Part I), Bloodthirsty Buddhists: The Sohei Warrior Monks of Feudal Japan. She belongs to a family of nomads who spend their summers in a ger in the Altai Mountains and their winters in a house in town. Bell: Its a big score. How did the crew shoot in subzero temperatures without destroying their equipment? "A Year After Her Photo Went Viral, How Has Teenage Eagle Hunter's Life Changed?" 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