I just had to get there and make sure we captured it.". Bell: I found her through a BBC photo diary by an young Israeli photographer called Asher Svidensky. I actually went in debt with the bank for another $12,000. Female eaglets are chosen since they grow to a larger size - a large adult might be as heavy as seven kilos, with a. Spurlock set him up with producers, editors, space to work on it. 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. In modern times, there have also been eagle huntresses - in the 1920s, a Mongol eagle huntress became known as Princess Nirgidma in Europe. And it is amazing so much so that is one of the reasons people have concluded much of the film has been staged. Aisholpan also confirms that she was aware some men thought a girl was not strong enough to hold an eagle, that she should stay at home, and would not be able to stand the cold hunting for hours in winter in the Altai mountains. Thus, the men Dennis Keen cites as objecting are only a subset of prominent eagle hunters, and the very men who blessed Makpal's engagement were elders integrally important to the resurrection of the eagle hunting tradition in Kazakhstan during post-Soviet rule. Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis? "I get it; I understand why the cynical critics pooh-pooh it. Truly overnight, he introduced me financiers. One of my biggest expensestruly, of my life savingswas excess luggage. 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. He introduced me to Stacey. 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", But in truth that wasn't the first time Bell had seen her. Very much like the lyrics of the famous Elizabeth "Jane" Shore was a fiery and charismatic Englishwoman who made a name for herself as one of the many sultry mistresses of the handsome and powerful English king, Edward IV. We probably did seven trips. 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. Otto Bell, director of The Eagle Huntress. A lot of things broke. "I did it drawing on my experience in commercials. Makpal says Kazakh elders (with one exception) gave their blessing because they remembered that women used to hunt with horses, dogs, and eagles.. She was 60. "I told my dad that I wanted to become an eagle huntress.". It's clear that Bell approached his subject with the canny eye of a man trained in the art of crafting images to sell a message. 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As Belgian photographer Stefan Cruysberghs remarked, Amanbol and Bazarbai are "the new generation [who] will make sure these ancient traditions will be kept alive." FIG 2.8. "We took about 700 kilos [1500 lbs.] In The Eagle Huntress, who is Aisholpan's main advocate? About this movie arrow_forward The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle. Ulgii Festival photographs, Sept. 21. http://www.scip.be/index.php?Page=PhotosMongolia&Lang=EN&ID=2941, Kysar, Kathryn. Except I'd stayed longer than their average tourist. In early 2014, inspired by Svidensky's photos, film maker Otto Bell flew to Mongolia to secure the rights to Aisholpan's story, stating that he felt a sense of responsibility to carefully bring her story to life through film. Svidensky and Bell returned later in 2014 to film Aisholpan capturing a fledgling eagle (Ak Kanat, White Wings) and competing in the festival in Ulgii, where she won her first eagle hunting contest. 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. If you are determined enough, there are people out there who will help and want to help. The Eagle Huntress is a 2016 internationally co-produced Kazakh-language documentary film directed by Otto Bell and narrated by executive producer Daisy Ridley. That was in 2011 - two or three years before Svidensky arrived on the scene - and she wasn't just training with the eagle, she was already hunting too, she says. He passed away between Sundance and Telluride, so we dedicated the film to him. And how did a first-time filmmaker get the likes of Daisy Ridley, Morgan Spurlock, and Stacey Reiss behind his project? Despite Dennis Keen's above-noted assertion, in a 8 March 2014 article entitled " " (https://egemen.kz/article/29988-on-ushinde-qondyrghan-qolgha-qyran) by Suleimen Mamet for Egemen Qazaqstan news, eagle huntress, Makpal Abrazakova, said: "Realizing my enthusiasm, my father deliberately took me to the eagle hunters on the slopes of Alatau [Qazaqstan] and introduced me to the eagle hunters. Reuters YouTube video, Dec. 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzClfYV6WY. He is a two-time champion in the annual Golden Eagle festival; his father was a champion, too. Part of the films better-than-Disney magic comes from the fact that its protagonist's (. 2012. The marketing for the film has suggested, without ever quite stating, that Aisholpan is the first ever female eagle hunter. Please try again later. After some initial misses, her eaglet successfully kills its first fox and she returns home. [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. They're busy. [4] It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.[5]. 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.". 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. A soaring documentary of a feminist journey, an Israeli screwball comedy, Black Swan for kids, and a . Incredible story, and great interview working on my first documentary now, and filming in a foreign language, so this was inspiring. 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Executive producers, Morgan Spurlock, Daisy Ridley, Jeremy Chilnick, Dan Cogan, Regina K. Scully, Marc H. Simon, Barbara Dobkin, Susan Maclaury.. Of course, finding a fox took forever. Especially in the winter. Tarim,! What is the origin of the legend of the Christed Son who was born of a virgin on December 25th? I was blessed by such elders as Tleubek Esimbek, Aben Toktasynov, Seitzhan Kodekov. In contrast, Soma notes, eagle hunting persisted and has a future among Kazakhs because of their traditional belief that women can participate in the same activities as men. Film reviews round-up: The Eagle Huntress, Through the Wall, Ballerina, The Son of Joseph. I grew up riding in school. Reuters video, March 8. http://mobile.reuters.com/video/2012/03/08/female-eagle-hunter-reaches-new-heights?videoId=231446109, Forbes. Aisholpan (left) at school, in The Eagle Huntress. "Those guys are used to being photographed, let's put it that way," says Bell. The story of the Eagle Huntress is simple and heartwarming. The shot is framed and the camera is rolling when the conversation between the two men takes place outside the tent, and the girl is summoned to receive the old man's good wishes. 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. Incredible article and inspiring story. She's a remarkable young woman, aided in her quest by a remarkable feminist father, Rys Nurgaiv, who supports Aisholpan one hundred percent even as he worries about how the male eagle hunters will treat her. 88-minute documentary with Aisholpan, Rys Nurgaiv and Daisy Ridley, narrator. The mausoleum was built during the reign of Timur, the ruler of the Timurid Empire. 2016. Children commonly help to care for the eagles, go along on hunts, and attend eagle festivals. Bell characterizes Mongolia as backwards and claims that because the Kazakhs live in such isolation they are ignorant about what women can do. Interviewed in Mongolia's leading newspaper in 2016, however, Aisholpan's mother Alma stated that there are no restrictions on girls deciding to be eagle hunters. 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. 2016. [14], Some reviewers and researchers felt that the documentary overstated the amount of opposition Aisholpan faced as a female eagle hunter and that the early promotion of the film included an ethnocentric and distortive description of the Kazakh eagle hunting culture as being one of "ingrained misogyny" (IMDb description for initial 7 months from film's premiere). "I wanted to not have a client or brand objectives, that sort of stuff," he says. <br /><br />Set in the beautifully mountains of Bayan -Ulgii province, in the far west of the open steppes of . 2014. Anybody who could carry a camera, did. "A 13-year-old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia." Narrated by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breakout star Daisy Ridley, "The Eagle Huntress" relays just enough information to keep track of how an eaglet is caught (at the age of 3 months,. I had Morgan Spurlock's email from years ago, so I cheekily sent him a link to it. Aisholpan wasn't looking for some sort of public validation. The documentary, The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell, follows apple-cheeked, 13-year-old Aisholpan, a member of a tribe of Kazakh semi-nomads, as she learns the art of eagle hunting from her . We seek to retell the story of our beginnings. And it's one of a number of scenes that some critics have assumed was staged. Jan. 26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1AuX2v0KGg&ebc=ANyPxKrGAA9rbsdHRmQPckpsIlvlfz650dckpgie6VKJ2qqe18vSjhT2qz6P9exypxTjrmLefR0a, Real Screen . This paper traces the ancient history of eagle falconry. Soma, Keen, McGough, and the Kazkahs themselves affirm that anyone young or old, male or female, is free to find a teacher, "capture and own their eagle, and hunt without any restrictions. Rather than exclusive to Kazakh masculinity," brkitshi techniques are shared with community members, elders, wives, and children, even non-Kazakhs. The photo that started it all.Credit:Asher Svidensky, "I was hoping to get the exclusive rights to tell the story, and maybe film a bit of her life 'this is her, she walks, she talks; it's real' and bring that back to financiers," he says. As a movie, "The Eagle Huntress" would have made a great . 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. I didn't go away. BBC News Magazine , April 14. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26969150, Mosbergen, Dominique. In that article she said she began going out on hunts with her grandfather as a child and went on her first hunt with her own eagle at age 15. After their father died, Bazarbai began teaching Amanbol to be an eagle huntress. Having guests has a true intrinsic importance to their lives. 2015. We ate together. 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. 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. He was broke, but a friend had years earlier given him an email address for Morgan Spurlock, the gonzo documentary maker who came to fame with Super Size Me. He brought such professionalism to the project. Archaeologists have been able to take a closer look at one of the United Kingdoms most famous shipwrecks. 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. Take your career and your day rate to the next level. When The Eagle Huntress premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 24, one of Hollywood's biggest breakout stars was quietly plotting to use her newfound fame to help make it soar.Star Wars . Thanks for sharing! http://www.barkman.nl/en/werk_compleet.jsp?categorie=1&nummer=1. http://www.svidensky.com/post-aspx-id-18, Thomson, Augusta. But Aisholpan is a rarity, and an especially telegenic one at that. We didn't stage anything.". A scene from "The Eagle Huntress.". At the 2014 Ulgii festival, while Bell filmed Aisholpan, yet another young eagle huntress in training captured attention: Amanbol, the 9-year-old daughter of the brkitshi featured in the award-winning documentary The Eagle Hunter's Son (2009, dir. Remove Ads On Sunday March 12, Melbourne's Cinema Nova and Cameo Belgrave will host preview screenings with wedge-tailed eagle demonstrations. He is a two-time champion in the annual Golden Eagle festival; his father was a champion, too. 2016. Part of the films better-than-Disney magic comes from the fact that its protagonist's (Aisholpan)father, a champion Eagle Hunter, trains her despite objections of the community elders. Thank you Liz, thank you Otto Bell, thank you Agalai and Aisholpan! Photographer's Blog, Reuters, March 6. http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/03/06/kazakhstans-lone-female-eagle-hunter/. 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. ", "In retrospect, it was the biggest gamble I've ever taken.". 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. How did you do it? 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. He had been shooting long-form documentary-style commercials for years, and had been dreaming of making a film of his own. In 2015, Aisholpan and Amanbol attended the Ulgii festival, along with a third young girl brkitshi apprentice. (Photo by Terry Allen). It ended up taking about 22 days. "I haven't seen anything like this, how can I help you get this thing finished," he wrote. On "The Eagle Huntress" documentary film rights. 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. In the shadowy world of ancient warfare, one weapon stood out as a true marvel: Greek fire. Thank goodness we had Agalai, the father, because his understanding of the landscape and of nature is almost preternatural. As a little girl in Mongolia, Aisholpan dreamt of flying an eagle like her Dad. Interview with Otto Bell, Jan. 30. http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2016/01/otto-bell-eagle-huntress.html, Svidensky, Asher. FIG 2.1. The Chilling Mystery of the Octavius Ghost Ship, What is a Wendigo? "But we ended up filming that amazing sequence, and that became the heart of the first act.". 1932. As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. FIG 2.2. But you know she'll never be able to hack it in winter.' By bringing together top experts and authors, this archaeology website explores lost civilizations, examines sacred writings, tours ancient places, investigates ancient discoveries and questions mysterious happenings. Kyrgyzstan's Salburun festival began in 1997; Mongolia's festival began in Ulgii in 1999. One of the heartwarmers at this year's Sundance Film Festival was " The Eagle Huntress ," a documentary about a 13-year-old Kazakh girl living in northwest Mongolia, determined . National Geographic 62 (Nov.): 513-80. 2011. What I was able to do was cut together 10 minutes. The spark for the film came when director Otto Bell came across photographs of Aisholpan taken by Israeli photographer Asher Svidensky on the BBC News website, in April 2014. Others were already on the trail, so Bell had to move quickly. Aimoldir's father, Mana Dayanbek, believes that Aimoldir is destined to be an eagle huntress because Kazakh nomads . By 2012, her father Murat Abdrazakov was training three new girls aged 8, 12, and 15 in Kazakhstan. . You might notice how it's got a dedication at the end. By the very nature of training, there's a lot of repetition. (Photo 2010 Mongolia, courtesy of Bek, backtobektravel.com), In 2010, at age 5, Aisulu began helping her father Ardak train an eagle. I'm thrilled she'll be bringing that same energy to supporting a real-world heroine who is also on an epic journey to win victory in a far away land. Aisholpan stated her desire to study medicine and become a doctor. How did the crew shoot in subzero temperatures without destroying their equipment? Interview with Aisholpan. A Mongol horsewoman-eagle huntress who became a celebrity in Europe in the 1920s was Princess Nirgidma (1907-1983). Bell: Exactly, yeah. (Photo courtesy of Stefan Cruysberghs), FIG 2.9. I know that at heart what she really wanted to do was go out hunting with her dad.". [11] Chief Film Critics at The New York Times, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, called the film "a bliss out"[12] and "a movie that expands your sense of what is possible",[10] respectively. 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