We proudly present the cinema trailer of our new film “Wild Horses – A Tale From The Puszta”. The movie hopefully will be released in theatres all over Hungary this Autumn (October, 2021)

Time is flying: we started our newest wildlife documentary about the wild horses and the rich wildlife of the Hungarian “puszta” (the easternmost steppes of Eurasia) exactly one year ago!!
During this time we have already  spent more than 140 days on location, but we are only half ways through the shooting. We thought maybe it’s time to show something from our footage to our audience, so here is a short  teaser.  The movie, produced with Doclights NDR Naturfilm, Terra Mater Factual Studios and WDR with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund will come out in 2020.
Until then you can follow the filming on facebook and instagram.

Please see our short video and visit our Evenki webpage for the full story. And please help if you can, also by copying and sharing the link: igg.me/at/evenki Thank you!
We would like to make some real changes and now you can be the part of this beautiful story too.

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!)

After the first airing on Swedish tv in April 2017, we started to send our film about the little giants of the north to film festivals. The film has got its first award in Hungary. The audience and the international jury just loved our little heroes, it seemed.

They are small. They are angry. And every four year or so they appear in masses seemingly from nowhere. Meet the Norway lemming, perhaps the most misunderstood and mysterious animal of the Scandinavian mountains… And the hero of our latest wildlife documentary!

In the past half year we have been chasing lemmings all over Scandinavia for our new project “Return of the lemming”.
It’s quite a challenging shoot, because the locations are very hard to reach. These are the most remote wild corners in our continent, I guess.
There will be regular posts about this crazy shoot, but until then, as usual, please check our facebook album about this filming.

In my humble opinion the most exciting thing in wildlife filmmaking is witnessing and recording extraordinary behaviors that were not filmed before or perhaps weren’t even known for scientists! Our audience has seen enough from the animal kingdom, viewers are hard to surprise. Still we need to deliver something outstanding…
But besides this, honestly, I’m so excited myself too about filming such behaviors in the wild that I must admit often my fingers start to shake when pressing the Rec button in such situations! And I feel happy that we were lucky to film some amazing wildlife actions again for the Everglades film.Perhaps the most interesting is the story of the tool using alligators. I heard this from my colleague, Florida-based wildlife filmmaker Mark Emery with whom we spent quite a time at a rookery.
During nesting season there is a shortage of available nesting material and egrets take risk to pick them up from the water surface. It seems that alligators are aware of this and they position and balance sticks on their snout as bait. We filmed as gators catch birds this way, I guess we filmed it first time ever. I mentioned it to a scientist, Vladimir Dinets who has seen this in other places too. He went more into the subject and came out with an article.
Another behavior was one of my dream shots too, to capture alligator and manatee interaction – underwater. After all they share the same habitat during winter (warm springs) so there must be some kind of encounter. And indeed there was! But finally this clip didn’t make it into the film, so I insert it here:

Just like the iguana story…
Iguanas are invasive species in Florida and thought to be vegetarians. Read more…

Well, the Everglades film is ready, we are packing and leaving from the location. It’s hard to leave behind all the friends that we made here and a place that we fell in love with so much.
I started with this project… oh my god… back in May 2011 and now it’s January 2015! We moved here with my family and my daughters started the school in Florida. Can’t beleive it!
But there was no other way to spend so much time out in the wilderness to capture rare or even never before seen animal behaviors (I will post about these soon). But maybe one day we return, at least I have some plans…

Now we start to focus on our new adventure in a totally different region of the planet, as our next project takes us to the icy highlands of Norway and Sweden.
Posts coming soon!

We were shooting owl chicks  in the Everglades when a guy stepped to me and politely asked if I am that Hungarian wildlife filmmaker. It just turned out that he followed me on Facebook. In that moment I realized there are people out there who are truly interested what and how we are doing.
And immediately I felt a bit embarrassed about being so reluctant with my blog. Simply we had too busy times – but this may not be a good excuse if somebody started a blog.

We are already editing the film in Hamburg, Germany though still there will be a couple of weeks of exciting shoots back in Florida.

Anyway, at least I managed to upload lots of photos to my public Facebook album regularly.
So as a compensation to the visitors of this blog, here is the link to those photos.