The film «The Arctic. Through the Looking Glass», created by the channel «My Planet» and the TV company «The United Media Group» with the grant support of the Russian Geographical Society, became the winner of the international cinema festival Arctic Open in the category «Best documentary».
On the secrets of the inhabitants of the White Sea, you can find out on the air of the television channel My Planet on the 7th of January, 2018.
The Arctic Open Film Festival was held from the 7th to the 9th of December, 2017 in Arkhangelsk. It featured the most vivid gaming and documentary films about the Arctic. The program involved 52 paintings from Russia, Norway, Sweden, Britain, China, Canada, France, Georgia and other countries.
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The large-scale film project "The Arctic: Through the Looking Glass" tells about the unique and rich underwater world of the North. For extraordinary beauty and mystery, biological scientists call it the Looking Glass, comparing with the Universe in miniature, where their own - unearthly - laws. So, the angels here always defeat the devils. The creators of the film introduce the audience to the amazing creatures that inhabit the waters of the White Sea, where man is not yet the master, but only an observer and researcher.
Submarine surveys were conducted by the employees of the Belomorsk Biological Station of the Biological Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which was located on the Karelian shore of the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea.
One of the authors of the project, biologist and photographer Alexander Semenov, presented their work at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Society for the Information Society in April 2017.
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«Underwater world always attracted researchers with its secrets, inaccessible depths and strange creatures. But apart from scientists, few know about this amazing world. People live for years in Murmansk, Vladivostok, Kamchatka and Arkhangelsk and do not even suspect what fantastic creatures live under the water right next to them. Moreover, they do not know how these seas "work", what processes occur in their depths, and what an important role, in fact, is played by the World Ocean and its inhabitants in our life and the life of the whole planet. Every year, scientists find and describe 15-20 thousand new species of animals, a significant part of which are inhabitants of the seas and oceans ... ", - Alexander emphasized.
The story of the young scientist aroused a lively response among the members of the Council and its Chairman Vladimir Putin, whose famous quotation about the sea angels and devils swept all the leading media outlets.
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«We are honored to receive this award, - Nikolai Tabashnikov, the editor-in-chief of the television channel My Planet, said. - Many thanks to the jury for singling out our film among the diversity of documentary projects about the Arctic. We would like to share this victory with the Russian Geographical Society, which provided us with financial support for the creation of the film. Special thanks to the White Sea biological station of Moscow State University and personally to the wonderful underwater photographer and the hero of our film Alexander Semyonov. Without his unique shootings, this film would not have been possible. It is worth saying that we intend to continue the Arctic project».
Congratulations to the creators of the film on the victory, we are wishing them further creative successes!