Kazbegi WCFF 2025
Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2025
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The film focuses on immersing the viewer in the rhythms of everyday life in a mountain region, where traditional culture coexists organically with the landscape. It was shot in a reportage style using an amateur camera, drone, and GoPro, without the use of a tripod or stabilizer — preserving a sense of immediacy and raw presence in each frame.
Sound was recorded using two portable field recorders, a lavalier microphone, and a shotgun mic, allowing for a textured and layered audio environment that highlights both intimate voices and the natural ambiance of the landscape.
Filmmaker Yakiv Antypenko is Ukrainian and has worked as a priest, a cameraman, a video editor, and sound designer.
For over ten years, he has actively produced photo and video content for stock agencies, which has broadened his experience and versatility as a visual artist.
Between 2013 and 2015, he independently filmed a documentary about the birdlife of the “Velykyi Luh” National Park in Ukraine. The filming took place in a strictly protected area with permission from the Ministry of Ecology. The film was screened at festivals and now serves as a scientific document, the ecosystem it portrayed was later completely destroyed during the war.
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