LAST YOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS?
a documentary video for UN
In northern Lapland, over a thousand kilometres north of Finland’s capital Helsinki, lies the largest remaining wilderness in Western Europe. These woodless hills, mountains and forests on the boreal forests line, are the homeland of Northern Europe’s only indigenous people, the Saami. The land rights issue in the Saami homeland remains unresolved.> To the movie page
Press release 8.11.2008 Finland
Last yoik accepted in competition section in
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in China
Documentary movie, Last yoik in Saami forests? has been accepted in the competition section of the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in China
This festival is Chinese state level international professional event and market focusing on documentary which started in 2003. The festival held in Guangzhou annually includes the following major activities: A thematic Competition, Documentary Market, Public Screenings and Seminars. GZ DOC 2008 will be held from December 1 to December 5. The theme of the competition this year is Earth - Our Home
Look more: http://www.gzdoc.com/
Other festivals in November
During November the documentary is screened also in some other international and Finnish film festivals.
Movie is taking part in Cine Gaia - International Environmental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro
http://www.cinegaia.org.
The premiere in France is in Paris:
Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Cinema La Pagode, Paris, 2008
The director of film will be taking part in discussion after screening.
www.festivalenvironnement.com
The first screening in Russia is television film festival in Murmansk
http://www.tv21.ru/festival/index.php?menuid=8
In Finland there is two screenings. Its screened in Wildlife Vaasa film festivals where it was awarded by
Environmental Special Award by West Finland Environmental Centre
http://wildlife.vaasa.fi/
On sunday 23th November the documentary is screened in Lens politica- film festival in Helsinki.
The director Hannu Hyvönen will be taking part in the discussion after screening.
www.lenspolitica.net
More info
http://elonmerkki.net/en
hannu@elonmerkki.net
Press release 23.9.2008
Iisalmi FinlandLast yoik in Saami forests accepted in human rights film festival in Scotland
Document 6 International Human Rights Documentary Film
Festival (15-19 October 2008)
The movie is screened on Sunday 19 October at 4.45pm
More info of the festival:
www.docfilmfest.org.uk
More info of the documentary:
http://elonmerkki.net/en
info at elonmerkki.net
Press release 18.7.2008
The best film on relationship between man and changing nature
Last yoik awarded in Pärnu Film Festival
The XXII Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival awarded Last Yoik in Saami Forests in 12th July in Estonia.
http://www.chaplin.ee/english/filmfestival/
-This awaed belongs to all of us who have worked with the prosess, specially to those one who had courage to express their thoughts in documentary, said director Hannu Hyvönen in award seremony. The jury spoke out the hope that this important documentary should be shown in Estonian television and hopefully also finally in Finnish television.
-I really hope that we could open the real dialogue in Finland about the forest conglict and Saami rights.
- Its necessary for other fenno-ugrian people to know what is going on in Finnish Upper Lappland today, said Hannu Hyvönen in Estonian television interview made by festival leader, film maker and parlamentarian Mark Soosaar
-We were very glad of having Hannu Huvönen's film in the program of XXII
Pärnu Film Festival. Estonia faces the same problem: under the pressure of
huge and powerful international companies sacred forests of our ancestors
are in serious danger to die. The ecological system of forests is quite
complicated and fragile. The forest isn't just a number of trees. The forest
is a home for many species - hundreds of different plants, insects, birds,
animals. The forest is a place were life is born and must be continued...
Mark Soosaar
Head of Pärnu Film Festival and MP of Riigikogu
More info:
hannu[at]elonmerkki.net
http://elonmerkki.net/en
+358408317733
Look videoclips from award seremony here:
http://video.elonmerkki.net/parnu
Protocol of awards of the XXII Pärnu Film Festival July 6 - 27, 2008
GUGARA by Andrzej Dybczak and Jacek Naglowski
- Grand Prize of festival for the best artistic achievment
MAKING RAIN by Liivo Niglas and Frode Storaas
as the best scientific audiovisual recording
CONFLUENCES - EMERILLON OF FRENCH GUIANA by Perle Møhl
as the best film on survival of indigenous peoples
LAST JOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS? by Hannu Hyvönen
as the best film on relationship between man and nature
OAK #419 by Robert Harding Pittman, the special mention of jury
as the significant film on citizen¹s movement
PARADISE by Jerzy Sladkowski
as the Prize of French Amabassador
Members of the international jury:
Kersti Uibo (Chairman)
Priit Pedajas
Mati Põldre
Elo Liiv
Pille Runnel
Õie Sarv
ALYOSHA by Meelis Muhu
- as the best Estonian film
Jury for Estonian films:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Carol Salter
Andreas Fischer-Hansen
The Estonian People¹s Award according to the televoting on Estonian TV:
MOTHER by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov
Press release 1.7.2008
The best topical relevance and interpretation
- Last yoik awarded in Global Indigenous Film Festival in Nepal
The indigenous peoples film festivals in Katmandu were a great success for the organizers
Look: http://www.ifanepal.org.np/
There were more than fifty movies invited in film festivals and Last yoik in Saami forests? was one of four awarded.
-There was lot of interest on the situation of Saami people and the role of Finnish state in the conflict was a surprise for many, comments Hannu Hyvönen, the director of the movie. -I had to address that the conflict is not between Finnish ordinary people and the Saami. Most of Finnish cityzens respect Saami culture. However, unfortunately this conflict has not got enough room in Finnish main media and people just dont know the destrcution what happens in Saami home area in Lapland. In this situation we are really happy and honoured of the award. All attention for the situation is helping to raise the needed discussion.
The situation in Nepal is now extremely interesting specially by the viewpoint of indigenous peoples in Nepal.
There exists a great cultural diversity in the country with more than 100 ethnic groups with their own languages and culture. The number of indigenous people is about 40% of the whole population.
Earlier these people were the most lowest cast but now when the feodal kingdom has collapsed and Nepal is seeking its way to parlamentarism the situation is changed. The optimism among indigenous peoples was strongly present also in film festivals.
Hannu Hyvönen made lot of documentation and interviews on the situation in Nepal and those footages can soon be seen in this webpage.
If needed more info, please dont hesitate to contact:
Hannu Hyvönen
hannu[at]elonmerkki.net
p. 0408317733
http://elonmerkki.net
Press release 2th May 2008
Invitation to indigenous film festival in Nepal
We are very honoured to get invitation to Nepal International Indigenous Film festival held in Katmandu 4.-7.6.2008
www.ifanepal.org.np
Press release 17th April
The film "LAST YOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS?" has been selected to take part in International Documentary Official Section to compete for the Golden Sun Award from 15th Catalonia Environmental International Film Festival that will take place in El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona) next June (31st May-8th June) http://www.ficma.com/Bienvenida.html
Press release 31.3.2008 Finland
Festival tour continous in East and West
We are happy to announce that these three interesting film festivals has accepted our documentary ( go to film page ) in their programs:
The Global Green Indigenous Film Festival
April 18-20, 2008 in Santa, Fe New Mexico
http://www.ggiff.com/
2008 Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
May 1–4, 2008 at the University of Washington in Seattle
http://www.hazelfilm.org
Green Film Festival in Seoul (22~28 May, 2008)
http://www.greenfestival.or.kr
Press release 22.3.2008
Kathrine Kight Award in Earth Vision Film festivals
The festival trip in the grass root film festivals in Santa Cruz was successfull and interesting experience.
The documentary Last yoik in Saami forests?
was awarded with Gatharine Knigt Award. The director of the documentary took part the festivals and made there also two videoworks.
-I heard about the ongoing tree sitting demonstration in campus area and wanted to look what it about. What I find is an extraordinary combination: university in wilderness. Unfortunately it seems that this unique special quality of that university is not fully understood and developing plans treat to destroy the spirituality and ecology around the university.
Look the video here:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485660.php
More info: hannu[at]elonmerkki.net
Press release 29th February 2008
Last yoik in Saami forests going to Earth Vision International Environmental Film Festival
We are proud and happy to announce that the US premiere of Last yoik in Saami forest ? - documentary for UN (final version) will be screened in Earth Vision International Film Festival on Tuesday March 4th at the Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz
EarthVision International Environmental Film Festival 2008 celebrates its 10th year of highlighting films about crucial ecological issues, providing a venue for independent filmmakers from around the world and inspiring people to get involved in creating positive change for the planet.
EarthVision 2008 will be held March 3rd – 8th, 2008 with a special screening for Act Locally on Earth Day in April. Award winning films will be screened at the Mello Center in Watsonville and at the Rio Theatre and the Veteran’s Memorial Hall in Santa Cruz. EarthVision will culminate with a celebration honoring the filmmakers and people on the front lines of the environmental movement.
The director of the documentary Hannu Hyvönen will be in Santa Cruz during the whole festival. Contact: hannu (at) elonmerkki.net
Read more:
http://www.earthvisionfest.org/
Press release 19th February 2008 - Finland
Case of Finnish forestry and indigenous rights
Illegal logging in Saami home area in Lapland?
Finland Institut in Deutchland is arranging a documentary screening and panel discussion on the situation in Finnish Lapland. The event is on Thursday 21th February in University of Humboldt in Berlin.
Read the program here:
English
German
PDF File
Read the whole press release > here
SKÁBMAGOVAT FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 10th ANNIVERSARY
Skábmagovat –the Indigenous Peoples Film Festival in Inari, northernmost
Finland, is arranged for the tenth time January 23rd to 28th, 2008. The
theme of the festival this year is beside Sámi films also Native American
film production.
Read more: http://www.siida.fi/skabma/800en.html
The documentary Last yoik in Saami forest? has its presentation in Sunday 29th January:
http://www.siida.fi/skabma/ohjelma_en/ohjelma_sunnuntai.htm
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Press release 25.9.2007
Last yoik in Saami forests in Planet in Focus film festival in Canada
*Planet in Focus* is Canada’s most acclaimed International Environmental Film and Video festival. The annual film fest showcases compelling documentaries, animation, dramatic features, shorts, and experimental works that celebrate, question, and establish varied ways of viewing the state of our world.
The 8th Annual Festival scheduled to take place October 24-28, 2007. View the festival schedule here:
http://www.planetinfocus.org/festival
For the festival screening we have made the updated version of the documentary. The latest move of Finnish state own company was to start logging in conflict forests in May 2007. But becouse no one of the big paper companies did not want to buy that wood, the stocks from wilderness ended up to the local energy company to be burned for heating.
The president of Saami Parliament, Pekka Aikio gives his answer to the question: Why Finnish state and Inari county are burning down Saami forests.
More information from the director and producer
Hannu Hyvönen hannu[at]elonmerkki.net tel +358408317733
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Last yoik in Saami forests - Germain premiere of the documentary in Globians Film Festivals
Home page: http://www.globians.com
The whole program of this higly interesting festival can be read > here.
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Presentation in Sodankylä Filmfestivals 17.6.2007
Finnish version Viimeinen joiku Saamenmaan metsissä is shown in Sunday 17.6. in Sodankylä Filmfestivals.
The whole program can be read > here.