Move heaven and earth. What's he waiting for? If you are determined enough, there are people out there who will help and want to help. Makpal says Kazakh elders (with one exception) gave their blessing because they remembered that women used to hunt with horses, dogs, and eagles.. About this movie arrow_forward The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle. Aisholpan is a 13-year-old Kazakh girl in western Mongolia who learns the ancient art of eagle hunting from her father Nurgaiv. She was 60. How did the crew shoot in subzero temperatures without destroying their equipment? 2023 NONETWORK, LLC. And in a 4 March 2014 article entitled "Falconry Tournament Tests Ancient Skills" (https://astanatimes.com/2014/03/falconry-tournament-tests-ancient-skills/) by Asset Kalymov for The Astana Times news, two of the men mentioned in the above-noted article as having blessed Makpal's eagle hunting career were described as: "famous berkutchis Aben Toktasynuly and Seitzhan Kodekov whose efforts in the early 1990s helped revive this Kazakh tradition." By bringing together top experts and authors, this archaeology website explores lost civilizations, examines sacred writings, tours ancient places, investigates ancient discoveries and questions mysterious happenings. Kyrgyzstan's Salburun festival began in 1997; Mongolia's festival began in Ulgii in 1999. Were working to restore it. ", Additional reporting by Grace Brown in Ulan Bator, and Mike Wendling in London. Bell: They saw it for the first time at Sundance. He's like, "There's a fox in these hillsit's likely going to come down through this gully." Amanbol and Bazarbai, brother and sister eagle hunters, 2014. And it is amazing so much so that is one of the reasons people have concluded much of the film has been staged. No malls, no Shake Shacks. Huffington Post , April 17-21. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/13-year-old-eagle-huntress-mongolia_n_5162623.html, Park City (Utah) Television. Whats the Truth Behind the All-Seeing Eye of Providence? I helped my father from an early age. She actually captures her own Eagle chick whilst her father lowers her . Nomad Women Have Hunted with Eagles since Antiquity. It shows how strong women are.". Photo by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic 1932 (Public Domain), The turbulent history and isolation of Central Asia makes it difficult to trace eagle hunters in the modern era. NFS: How did you find these dream characters, Aisholpan and her amazing dad? The Eagle Huntress, a documentary about a Kazakh nomad girl in Mongolia learning to hunt with a golden eagle, divides opinion. When you're a nomad out there, you can go for days without seeing another soul. A highly educated member of the Torghut/Oirat/Kalmyk nomads who ranged from the Altai to the Tarim Basin, Nirgidma was photographed with her hunting eagle in 1932 in Urumqi (where the mummified eagle huntress now resides, see Part 1 ). Svidensky's photo essay of Aisholpan posing with her father's eagle went viral in 2014. And I was like, 'Oh, God, we're going to have to come back'. "better-than-Disney magic" - a spot-on assessment of this breathtaking film. Eagle hunting is traditionally passed down among male relatives, but there are no religious or cultural prohibitions against a girl becoming an eagle hunter ( brkitshi, berkutchi ). "Get lost! The father likes to sit outside anyway, he likes to watch the goats. But, Bell insists, he just got lucky. Bell spent $US80,000 "my whole life's savings" and took out a high-interest loan to fund the trip. Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a 13-year-old girl living with her nomadic family in Mongolia's Altai mountains, a harsh, unforgiving place of isolation and physical duress. There isn't much in the way of media out there, but they are used to cameras. He is a two-time champion in the annual Golden Eagle festival; his father was a champion, too. Variety, July 16. http://variety.com/2014/film/news/kissaki-films-otto-bell-to-direct-ashol-pan-documentary-eagle-huntress-1201263741/, Cruysberghs, Stefan. The spark for the film came when director Otto Bell came across photographs of Aisholpan taken by Israeli photographer Asher Svidensky on the BBC News website, in April 2014. I filmed it like I would film a live sports event," he says. "I think eagle hunting would be open to any young woman who would want to pursue it," Mayor says. The mausoleum was built during the reign of Timur, the ruler of the Timurid Empire. What am I doing?. Watching the film, a cynical viewer may fear that Aisholpan has been coached when she says: "Girls can do anything if they try." I take it as a bit of a compliment, actually. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there existcountless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts thathave yet to be discovered and explained. But while it has wowed them at festivals around the world since its debut at Sundance in January 2016, not everyone has been convinced. It must have been small if you were all sleeping in the ger. The film features a 13-year-old girl tackling the powerful and violent act of hunting game deep in the mountainous Kazhak wildernessa tradition which has not been taken on by any other female in its 12-generation history. I took my young daughter to see The Eagle Huntress and I think every father should do the same (take your daughter, that is, not mine). Huge thumbs up to the filmmakers and their journey to capture such a great story in a cinematic way. With her father Nurgaiv's help, she learns how to train golden eagles, and then captures and trains her own eaglet. I saw his spellbinding work, and was like, "There's got to be a film behind that photo." Lauren McGough, American eagle huntress in Mongolia, 2009-2013. "My feeling was just because it's a true story that doesn't mean it can't also be beautiful. But they are made possible not only by her own grit and skill but by her nomadic culture, in which women can be men's equals and girls can train eagles. "Elders and respected hunters blessed me some time ago," said the 25-year-old Makpal, "and I'm still getting their support." We would rope the door of that open and then have the Steadicam in the side door, and that was how we did our tracking shots to see when they were galloping down across the tundra in the snow. Director Otto Bell, however, denies all accusations that the film was scripted, acted or re-enacted. Thank you Liz, thank you Otto Bell, thank you Agalai and Aisholpan! Amanbol at Eagle Festival, Ulgii, Mongolia, 2014. Her father, like his father before him, hunts with a majestic golden eagle, and Aisholpan dreams of carrying on the family tradition . Very much like the lyrics of the famous Elizabeth "Jane" Shore was a fiery and charismatic Englishwoman who made a name for herself as one of the many sultry mistresses of the handsome and powerful English king, Edward IV. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. The film features a 13-year-old girl tackling the powerful and violent act of hunting game deep in the mountainous Kazhak wildernessa tradition which has not been taken on by any other female in its 12-generation history. "Visit to Mongolia's Altai Mountains Takes Flight with Eagle Hunting" Report on 2104 Ulgii festival. NFS: So you had several different cameras? He saved the film. Soma, Takuya. [7], The Eagle Huntress premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it was purchased by Sony Pictures Classics for the US and Altitude Film Distribution in the UK. "We took about 700 kilos [1500 lbs.] I think if we didn't have him and that understanding of the landscape, we'd probably still be out there trying to shoot, trying to finish it. "Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia." Thanks, everyone! For thousands of years this was how the nomadic peoples of the northern steppes from the Caucasus to Manchuria hunted for survival. Bell: We lived together. Tim Robey in the Telegraph describes as "woefully unspontaneous" a scene where a newsreader on the radio in the family's tent is heard talking about the forthcoming eagle festival, and Aisholpan pipes up to plead with her parents for permission to enter. Mummified eagle h In modern times, there have also been eagle huntresses - in the 1920s, a Mongol eagle huntress became known as Princess Nirgidma in Europe. In April 2014, the New York-based Englishman saw an online image of her setting an eagle free. Bell: Oh, it was the biggest whim of my life. We took about 700 kilos [1500 lbs.] I really enjoyed this article and I think the photographs are spectacular! of gear, about 28 Pelican cases. Duchardt, Kilmeny. ", Aisholpan's performance at the competition provides the film with a climax of sorts, but to Bell it felt too much like a sports movie. Apparently unaware of Makpal and other girls learning skills, Svidensky cited extreme cold and difficult terrain as the reason eagle hunting was reserved for males, and portrayed Aisholpan as the only girl. But while the academic Adrienne Mayor suggests Bell went searching for these naysayers in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in Andrews' latest article about the film Bell says he just went round knocking on elders' doors, and all openly voiced disapproval. "What a baby sees in the nest, it then repeats when it grows up.". I just didn't know how to get it finished. Adrienne Mayor's paper, The Eagle Huntress - Ancient Traditions and New Generations, mentions a number of Kazakh women who have trained or are training to hunt with eagles, Otto Bell (centre) with Aisholpan's parents at the Ajyal film festival in Doha in December, Rescuers search wreckage of deadly Greece train crash. Adrienne Mayor , Research Scholar in Classics and History of Science, Stanford University, is the author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (2014), and The Poison King: Mithradates, Romes Deadliest Enemy , nonfiction finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. And a 13-year-old girl, whose father and grandfather are eagle hunters, decides she wants to do . Interview with Otto Bell. Man in Peru Caught Out Drinking With an 800-year-old Mummy! But Aisholpan is a rarity, and an especially telegenic one at that. Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a 13-year-old girl living with her nomadic family in Mongolia's Altai mountains, a harsh, unforgiving place of isolation and physical . Thanks for sharing! They were very grateful. Meanwhile, in 2009-2013, the eagle hunter Kukan taught a young American woman, Lauren McGough, to be a brkitshi. http://realscreen.com/2016/02/12/celluloid-dreams-picks-up-the-eagle-huntress/, Saito, Stephen. Nirgidma with her eagle. 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