"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. "There is always a way to finish your film. 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. 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. 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. In one of the film's most thrilling sequences, we see Aishol-pan and her father tracking an eagle to its nest, high up a rocky cliff. He brought such professionalism to the project. At the 2013 festival in Nura she was awarded a prize by virtue of being the only female competing. As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. So, the idea of having Daisy for about five minutes of narration through the film, and having that big, directional score, is to kind of help kids orient themselves. Photo by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic 1932 (Public Domain), The turbulent history and isolation of Central Asia makes it difficult to trace eagle hunters in the modern era. 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. Ren Bo Hansen). 2016. Makpal and her eagle, 2010, Kazakhstan. We shot the film principally on a RED Epic in 5K. FIG 2.10. 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. Congratulations to nofilmschool for such a great article. In October, he went back with a full crew and proper gear to shoot more sequences, including the Golden Eagle competition, a kind of gymkhana in which 70 eagle hunters are judged on a range of criteria, from riding to dress to their hunting abilities. There are other moments that critics grumble about. Move heaven and earth.". (Photo courtesy Dennis Keen), In 2009, Reuters released a video of the young eagle huntress Makpal Abdrazakova competing in an eagle festival in Kazakhstan. "I can't pay you," he warned, "but we're going to go track down this girl, see what the story is.". 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. "Makpal, First Woman Eagle Hunter in Modern Kazkahstan." Especially in the winter. In April 2014, the New York-based Englishman saw an online image of her setting an eagle free. 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 . By 2011, many photos, interviews, and videos in international media presented Makpal as the sole female brkitshi in Kazakhstan. "Visiting Makpal Abdrazakova," Nov. 26-27. The language isn't there. If they maybe can't read lines and lines of subtitles, this gives them little hand-holds to help navigate the film. "I haven't seen anything like this, how can I help you get this thing finished," he wrote. 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NFS: You were out in that winter tundra for 22 days? He also accepts it would have been a shame if Aisholpan's world had not been revealed to a wider audience. "Her bravery and her feats in that eagle hunting contest are really amazing and inspiring," she says. [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). 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. In all, the men of the Nurgaiv clan have been hunting with eagles for 12 generations. 308 qualified specialists online. Kyrgyzstan's Salburun festival began in 1997; Mongolia's festival began in Ulgii in 1999. On day one, Nurgaev announced he and Aisholpan were going to try to steal a young eagle from its nest, so that she might train it up for hunting. Prelude to The Mandate . They're called bread loaf vans because they look like a bread loaf. There they discover two eaglets. 2011. Directors Otto Bell Starring Aisholpan Nurgaiv Genres Sports, Documentary, Adventure Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English And it's one of a number of scenes that some critics have assumed was staged. It gave me the inspiration to win," she says. The Eagle Huntress, a documentary film set in Mongolia directed by Otto Bell and starring teenager Aisholpan Nurgaiv, debuted Sunday at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. 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. 2023 NONETWORK, LLC. The hardest thing I've ever done in my life. The Eagle Huntress is on limited release nationally from March 16. 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. As a little girl in Mongolia, Aisholpan dreamt of flying an eagle like her Dad. Move heaven and earth. You never want to stop them. Aisholpan stated her desire to study medicine and become a doctor. We knew they would do things five, 10, 20 times until she got it right. Her achievements are impressive. Nirgidma with her eagle. The father likes to sit outside anyway, he likes to watch the goats. The Eagle Huntress Has Landed.Aishol-Pan in Wonderland . Aisholpan is a 13-year-old Kazakh girl in western Mongolia who learns the ancient art of eagle hunting from her father Nurgaiv. Asher Svidensky's photo that inspired 'The Eagle Huntress', How John Paino Built (And Destroyed) a World for 'The Last of Us'. The ancient practice of eagle hunting is carried on today by a few hundred nomadic Kazakhs in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Xinjiang (northwest China). The film's dialog is in Kazakh; the narration is in English. Afterwards, international distribution was handled by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. http://www.svidensky.com/post-aspx-id-18, Thomson, Augusta. A scene from "The Eagle Huntress.". September 19, 2016 at 7:47AM, Edited September 19, 7:47AM. The men in her family have been eagle hunters for seven generations,[6] and she wants to follow in their footsteps. ( www.davidbaxendale.com, Flickr/ CC BY-ND 2.0 ), O'Connor, Rebecca. That's to Grandpa. "A Year After Her Photo Went Viral, How Has Teenage Eagle Hunter's Life Changed?" "I think eagle hunting would be open to any young woman who would want to pursue it," Mayor says. Watch the Trailer Here! Tim Robey in the Telegraph describes as "woefully unspontaneous" a scene where a newsreader on the radio in the family's tent is heard talking about the forthcoming eagle festival, and Aisholpan pipes up to plead with her parents for permission to enter. I took my young daughter to see The Eagle Huntress and I think every father should do the same (take your daughter, that is, not mine). Bell: We couldn't really protect our gear. 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. http://www.barkman.nl/en/werk_compleet.jsp?categorie=1&nummer=1. After their father died, Bazarbai began teaching Amanbol to be an eagle huntress. Set against the breathtaking expanse of the Mongolian steppe, THE EAGLE . FIG 2.7. When I finally saw the film at TIFF 2016, I had to find out for myself: How did this remarkable documentary get made? How lucky we all are to have known her, and how awful that we have to say . The great excitement surrounding their extraordinary accomplishments is a powerful affirmation of the egalitarian values that were once taken for granted among the ancient steppe nomad cultures. Produced by Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang, Otto Bell. "Ethnoarchaeology of Ancient Falconry in East Asia." Asian Conference on Asian Studies, International Academic Forum. 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. I take it as a bit of a compliment, actually. Watching the film, a cynical viewer may fear that Aisholpan has been coached when she says: "Girls can do anything if they try." The traditional test of a brkitshi is a successful hunting trip on horseback. I really enjoyed this article and I think the photographs are spectacular! He is a two-time champion in the annual Golden Eagle festival; his father was a champion, too. Can't wait to see it. 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 . ", Additional reporting by Grace Brown in Ulan Bator, and Mike Wendling in London. Following the film's premiere, co-executive producer Daisy Ridley agreed to add narration, comprising approximately five minutes' total time in the 87-minute film. Part of the films better-than-Disney magic comes from the fact that its protagonist's (. 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. It has been announced that Paul Levitz will write World's Finest which will follow Power Girl and the Huntress (Helena Wayne) trapped in the new 52, trying to make their way back to . "A 13-year-old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia." Huffington Post , April 17-21. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/13-year-old-eagle-huntress-mongolia_n_5162623.html, Park City (Utah) Television. The marketing for the film has suggested, without ever quite stating, that Aisholpan is the first ever female eagle hunter. Barkman, Carl. No Film School sat down with the films charming helmer, Otto Bell, to find out. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. After the festival, it was clear that we had to go back for a winter hunt, but everything I had was gone. The chief reason why eagle hunting is still practiced is the absence of strict social regulations to join. As Dennis Keen notes, "curious adults and children absorb eagle hunting not just from 'masters' but from from the culture at large." But the fundamentals of the film are confirmed by Aisholpan herself. Bell: We lived together. Anybody who could carry a camera, did. You might notice how it's got a dedication at the end. 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. It isnt hitting theaters until next month, but much has already been written aboutThe Eagle Huntress. . Early publicity for the film did little to inspire confidence, by stating that Aisholpan had fought "an ingrained culture of misogyny to become the first female eagle hunter in 2,000 years of male-dominated history" - a claim that US historian Adrienne Mayor has shown is untrue. National Geographic 62 (Nov.): 513-80. And so, the central conflict of The Eagle Huntress is established: a young girl wants to follow her passion. It sounds a little like a Disney movie, perhaps, but The Eagle Huntress is a documentary of uncommon beauty, shot in western Mongolia in three grabs between July 2014 and February 2015. We ate together. 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"The scene where she takes the baby eagle out of the nest - people are always surprised to know that's one single take. Although she faces some disbelief and opposition within the traditionally male sport, she becomes the first female to enter the competition at the annual Golden Eagle Festival. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there existcountless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts thathave yet to be discovered and explained. They were very grateful. Reuters YouTube video, Dec. 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzClfYV6WY. That year, a young horsewoman with an eagle appeared at the festival in Ulgii, Mongolia; in 2013, a young eagle huntress attended the festival in Nura, Kazakhstan. After some initial misses, her eaglet successfully kills its first fox and she returns home. 2016 Directed by Otto Bell Synopsis Witness one girl's dream take flight Follow 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 hunter, and rise to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries. 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. And it is amazing so much so that is one of the reasons people have concluded much of the film has been staged. She is the author ofThe Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World(Princeton Read More, Thank you Carol Ann1 ! I've never really seen Agalai, the father, get that emotional. Incredible. Daisy Ridley, who led the cast of last year's The Force Awakens, released a statement."Devastated at this monumental loss. The film's soundtrack features the original song "Angel by the Wings" by Sia, which was released worldwide on 2 December 2016. 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. The majority of Kazakh eagle hunters live in Mongolia, and keep in touch with Kazakhs in other countries. No Film School: How does someone who is making their first first film get Stacey Reiss, Morgan Spurlock, and Daisy Ridley on board? ADRIENNE MAYOR is a research scholar in the Classics Department and History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program at Stanford University. Nope. He was weeping. 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. Congratulations NFS and thank you for writing this article. Returns home to carry on the family legacy Central Asia the men in her left hand and forearm is 2016. 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. 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. Aisholpan hunting for foxes in the Altai mountains. 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. ", "In retrospect, it was the biggest gamble I've ever taken.". It is thus mysterious that there are so few references to the planets in ancient literature. "Up to that point," Bell says, "I'd been kind of alone and going a bit mad. I've never seen anything like this. Aisulu, at age 5, teaching a young eagle to balance while perched on a horse. 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. Become a doctor do things five, 10, 20 times until she got it right the of... 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