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Tiger trap
Ловушка для тигра
Year of production: 2024
Production country: Russia
Production company: Metelskiy Igor Mihkaylovich
Director: Igor Metelskiy, Vladislav Grishin
Screenwriter: Igor Metelskiy, Vladislav Grishin
Producer: Igor Metelskiy
DOP: Sergey Tsekhanovich, Oleg Kugaev
Edition director: Vladislav Grishin
Sound director: Alexander Panchenko
Film-category (genre): documentary
Rating (age category): 12+
Length: 69 min.
Wildlife photographer Igor Metelskiy, who has visited many parts of the world and has a rich collection of photographs of various animals, goes to the Ussuri taiga to find and photograph the Amur tiger, but this task is not as easy as it seemed at first. Few were able to see the Amur tiger, and moreover, it is considered to be a bad sign among the aboriginal peoples of the Far East. So, Igor decides to use the camera trap to try and photograph the Amur tiger in the wild. But there is so much to learn in order to do that. While getting to know the people and learning the habits of the Amur tiger, he discovers the amazing wildlife of the Far East, with its diversity and problems of interaction with humans. How to find a balance between our needs and the preservation of this amazing world of wildlife…
Selected festival history
2024:
  • The 34th International Film Festival «Message to Man», St. Petersburg
  • The X International Film Festival «Reasonable Cinema» in Moscow
  • «Wildlife photographer of the year 2024», London
  • Igor Metelskiy
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    Born in 1963 in the city of Omsk. In 1990 graduated from Omsk State University with a degree in Law. Held six professional photo exhibitions, and his work has been highly praised by critics. The winner of the special prize "Captured on a camera trap" of the 9th (2023) photo contest of the Russian Geographical Society "The most beautiful country"
    Participant of the exhibitions "Primordial Russia", "Golden Turtle", "Wildlife photographer of the year 2024".
    The "Tiger Trap" is the author's first film project as a director, screenwriter and producer.

    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    2024 – Tiger trap
  • Vladislav Grishin
    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    2024 – Firefox
    2020 – Sockeye Salmon. Red fish
    2018 – Kamchatka Bears. Life Begins.