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The overall theme for the photo day of this year’s Matsalu Nature Film Festival is the telling of a story – both in a series of images and on video. The day ends with a small aerial show presenting mini-copters produced in Estonia for the recording of high-quality photos and videos.

 

 

Kimmo Ohtotnen

 

One speaker is Kimmo Ohtonen from Finland, a man familiar with making wildlife films as well as preparing photo books. In Finnish television he has shown the documentary series “Disappearing North“and  “Into the Wild”, as scriptwriter, director and presenter. He is also working on a project on brown bears that will result in a book in a couple of years.

 

Kimmo Ohtonen

 

In Matsalu Kimmo together with the public searches for answers to questions such as ”What makes a nature film into a good nature film? How will we reach the viewer through the film? Can nature films be defined by the same principles and rules as documentaries of other genres? How important is the story in a nature film?” He himself has tried to dissect these questions through his works of the last ten years.

 

Kimmo Ohtonen is the presenter and program director of nature broadcasts, and a member of the Finnish WWF. He is a graduate of the television production course at Chester College covering legal aspects of media, writing screenplays for television, the media, society and TV production. The second part of Kimmo’s presentation is focused on the role of the story in wildlife photography. 

 

Urmas Tartes

 

Insect specialist and ardent nature photographer Urmas Tartes has a story to tell about butterflies. This year his book ”Eesti päevaliblikad (Estonian butterflies)”, in cooperation with Erki Õunap, was published and an exhibition about butterflies was prepared for the Sagadi Forest Museum together with Arne Ader and Margit Mõttus: ”How to tell the story of butterflies in photos?”. Urmas and Margit describe the various stages of the process from the photographing of the material to the realisation of an exhibition and book.

 

Mauri Leivo

 

Finnish photographer Mauri Leivo comes to Lihula with an exhibition on the  Arctic diver. On the photo day he will present his encounters with this magical bird.

 

The Photo Day will end with a presentation of remote-controlled flying devices for photography and filming by the Estonian company Airborne Mechatronics OÜ. They are involved in the development of such techniques and their copters are already in use in many parts of the world. Interested parties can see the technology, and become acquainted with various opportunities in airborne photography. A demo photo session will also take place.

 

 

10.00  Urmas Tartes, Margit Mõttus
"The story of butterflies - the journey of photo stories from nature to the viewer." 
How to tell the story of butterflies through the photos?

11.30  Kimmo Ohtonen

"What makes a wildlife film good?"
How do we reach the viewer through the film?Can wildlife films be defined by the same principles and rules as other documentaries? How important is the story?

13.00  Lunch break

14.00  Kimmo Ohtonen „Brown Bear – the Power Animal“

Kimmo will present his project about Finnish brown bears.

15.00  Mauri Leivo  ”Arctic diver, a bird of the waters”

 

 

Note: 

Read about the Film Festival  http://www.matsalufilm.ee/english/index.html

(See ”About” for a longer background)