We just returned from Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia, Russia, from the Save And Preserve Film Festival where got the Grand Prix for our lemming film! Fantastic city, fantastic festival!
(And what and award ceremony!)

The sun has gone down, slowly, as it should on the North. Last glance at the thermometer: -37C. Clear sky, it is going to drop to -40C by the morning. Not the weather for camping, I think, when I enter our run-down Russian-style military tent. For a couple of weeks this is my home that I share with a lovely Evenki family, the nomadic people of the Siberian taiga. They have traditional reindeer skin tent too, but prefer to use this leaky ugly tarp, because this gets dirty slower. This is a practical decision, like everything else here… Read more…