Yakut documentary filmmakers Evgenia and Maxim Arbugaev have been invited to join the US Film Academy.
RIA Novosti reports this, citing the American Film Academy. The film was previously Eugene и Maxima "Exit" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject.
As a reminder, "Exit" premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2022. The film won Best Short Documentary at the IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles and received a number of other film awards.
"Exit" is 25 minutes long and follows the reclusive biologist Maxim Chakilev, who travels to Chukotka every year to observe the mass migration of walruses. He attempts to understand what drives tens of thousands of animals to emerge onto the Arctic coast in a single night. Viewers have the opportunity to find themselves at the epicenter of the climate crisis and witness its full impact on the animals of the North.
Arbugaevs were born and raised in the village Tiksi Bulunsky Area Yakutia. Eugene She is known for her photo essays for National Geographic and her portrait of Greta Thunberg for Time magazine. Maksim — Together with Christian Frey, in 2018 he made the documentary film “Genesis 2.0” about mammoth tusk hunters and received a special jury prize in the documentary section of the Sundance Film Festival.
You can watch the movie "Exit" here.