CLOSING The Field of Magic  

Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year's work, the film captures the perspective of  the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows. “The Field of Magic” is the first movie of Mindaugas Survila, telling a story of people, not animals.

Festivals and Awards

„Golden Funnel“ award for the best developed project, ExOriente Film Wokshop, 2009

Mindaugas Survila

In 2005 he took a bachelor degree of Biology at Vilnius University, faculty of Natural sciences, and in 2007 – a master degree of Ecology and environmental researches. He has been photographing nature since his childhood and during his study years he started filming. Since 2007 he spends half of his workweek working as an operator in various TV channels, and the other half – filming and photographing nature. He has worked as an operator assistant of A. Kemežys in the movie “The Fire” of the well-known Lithuanian documentarian A. Stonys. The first independent movie of Mindaugas Survila about the rare birds ospreys – “Meeting the ospreys” (2007) – was voted as the best Lithuanian documentary of nature of 2007 and received the award of film maker Petras Abukevičius.

Filmography:

Meeting the Ospreys / Susitikimas su žuvininkais (2006)