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Director - Country
Lithuania
Survila Mindaugas
The Field of Magic
The Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year's work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
The Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year's work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
Mindaugas Survila was born on February 4, 1984. Graduated from Vilnius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences with a BA in Biology in 2005 and an MA in Ecology and Environmental Research in 2007. Since 2007, spends half of his workweek as a cameraman in different Lithuanian TV channels, and another half – filming and photographing nature. Mindaugas Survila's first amateur movie about the rare birds ospreys - Meeting the Ospreys (2007) - was voted the best Lithuanian nature documentary of 2007 and received the nature filmmaker Petras Abukevičius Award. In 2009 he attended Ex Oriente Film with The Field of Magic. Filmography: Meeting the Ospreys (2007), an amateur environmental movie (Petras Abukevičius Award). Festivals: 2006, Wildlife Vaasa Festival (Finland); 2007, Stupeni (Ukraine); 2008, Matsaku International Nature Films Festival (Estonia).