GRAND PRIX
Festival international du film d'environnement (FIFE), Paris 2015

Pour Martin Provost, président du Jury "le film s’est imposé tout de suite presque à l’unanimité. C’est un film plein d’esprit !".





FESTIVALS:
* Regards d'ailleurs (Dreux, France)
*Sydney Film Festival (Australia)
* One World International Film Festival (Czech Republic)
* Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia)
* DocHouse London (UK)
* DocsBarcelona (Spain)
* Guth Gafa Documentary Festival (Co. Meath, Ireland)
* Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (USA)
* Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, USA)
* Take One Action Film Festival (Edinburgh, UK)
* DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
* Inconvenient Films Documentary Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania)
* EIDF (Seoul, South Korea)
* Planet in Focus Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
* Traverse City Film Festival (USA)
* Millenium International Documentary Film Festival (Bruxelles, Belgium)
* Milwaukee Film Festival (USA)
* Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival (Germany)
* ReFrame Film Festival (Peterborough, Canada)
* Cinéma Vérité - Iran International Documentary Film Festival (Tehran, Iran)
* Food Film festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* SXSW South by Southwest (Austin, Texas, USA)
* CinemAmbiente (Torino, Italy)
* TIFF Bell Lightbox (Toronto, Canada)
* Doc Cévennes - Festival international du documentaire en Cévennes (Lasalle, France)
* One World Slovakia (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)
* Hamptons International Film Festival (USA)
* FIFE - Festival International du Film d’Environnement (Paris, France)
* Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (Washington DC , USA)
* Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Poland)
* Contemporary Science Film Festival 360’ (Moscow, Russia)
* Palic European film Festival (Subotica, Serbia)
* Tutti nello stesso piatto (Trento, Italy)
* Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (Victoria, Australia)
* Salt Spring Film Festival (Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada)
* UK Green Film Festival (London, UK)
* Pelicam International Film Festival (Bucuresti, Romania)
* Beijing International Film Festival (China)
* Bozeman Doc Series (USA)
* Duluth Superior Film Festival (USA)
* Devour! The Food Film Fest (Halifax, Canada )
* Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Austria)
* BIFED - Bozcaada International Film of Ecological Documentary (Turkey)
* Terre & Lettres (La Rochelle, France)
* dokumentART - European Film Festival for Documentaries (Neubrandenburg, Germany)
* Northwest Film Center (Portland, USA)
* Northern Film Festival (The Netherlands)
* Seoul International Food Film festival (South Korea)
* Pantalla Científica - Science and Technology Film Series (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
* Festi’vache (France)
* Ecorâmicas (Portugal)
* Australian Cinemathèque (Brisbane, Australia)
* SALT Ecology Film Program (İstanbul, Turkey)
* Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival (Finland)

AWARDS
* The Nicolas School Environmental Award - Full Frame
* European Film Awars nominee





Good Things Await

Category |Environment, Food, Justice, Politics, Science
Year | 2014
Country | Denmark
Running time | 58’ - 95'
Format | HD
Production | Danish Documentary Production, Vintage Pictures
Director | Phie Ambo


Niels is 79 years old and one of the last idealistic farmers in the agricultural country of Denmark. He makes some of the world’s finest products, praised by the consumers, prized by the world’s best restaurant, NOMA in Copenhagen, and nursed in harmony with the universe. But Niels’ ways of farming in accordance with the planets and the primal instincts of the animals are not too popular with the authorities. They are threatening to withdraw his license to keep cattle, the buildings are deteriorating, and with no successor to take over, Niels risks seeing his life fall apart.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR : PHIE AMBO

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PHIE AMBO


Director: Phie Ambo

Educated at the National Film School of Denmark, documentary filmmaker Phie Ambo (born 1973) is one of the leading Danish film directors of her generation. Award winning for her feature length documentary films true to the tradition of poetic, personal and cinematic documentary filmmaking, Ambo deals with sensitive topics such as family relations, love, spiritualism, creative processes, artificial life and robots.

Phie Ambo has directed a number of award-winning films for the cinema, including major works such as Family (2001), Gambler (2005), and Mechanical Love (2007).

Her films travel the world and have been screened in cinemas as well as over 90 festivals and on television throughout the world. Ambo is mainly interested in big questions like ‘what makes us human as opposed to robots?’ (Mechanical Love).

Her intimate method of filming – one woman, one camera, no lightning – allows her to blend in with her surroundings, thus getting very close to her subjects without disturbing the natural pace of the situation.

As a result of this method, one of Ambo’s trademarks are intimate and universally human stories that get very close to their characters and allow them space to unfold.

FILMOGRAPHY

2012: FREE THE MIND. 80 min. Director. Selected for IDFA’s masters program 2012.

2010: THE HOME FRONT. 40 min. Director & cinematographer. Festivals: DocuWeek, New York 2011, San Francisco Int. Festival, IDFA.

2010: FEVER. 14 min. Director & cinematographer.

2007: MECHANICAL LOVE. 78 min. Director & cinematographer. Festivals: CPH:DOX, Doc Point, Helsinki, IDFA, HotDocs, Toronto, Silverdocs, Washington, Los Angeles FF, Munchen IFF, Nordic Panorama. Awards: Internet audience award, Planete Doc. Warsaw. Nominations: Cinema Eye Honor, New York & Gulddok, Copenhagen.

2005: GAMBLER. 80min. Director & cinematographer. Festivals: CPH:DOX, Gøteborg FF, Nordic Presentation, Rotterdam FF, Seattle IFF, Taiwan golden horse IFF.

2003: THE DIVER INSIDE ME. 28 min. Director & cinematographer. Festivals: Sheffield IDF, Norwegian DFF in Volda, Ankara IFF.

2002: GROWING UP IN A DAY. 28 min. Director & cinematographer. Festivals: IDFA, Sheffield IDF, Visions du Reel, Nyon. Awards: Kodak award for best photography on short film, Visions du Reel.

2001: FAMILY. 90 min. Director & cinematographer, co-directed by Sami Saif. Awards: IDFA 2001: Joris Ivens Award, München DFF 2002: Dokumentarfilmpreis Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Zanzibar IFF 2003: Best Documentary, American Film Institute 2003: Honorary Mention.