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Prize-Winning Alumna Films in Antarctica
November 23, 2009
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| Open World alumna filmmaker Olga Stefanova with her equipment and a companion in Antarctica. (photo by Nikolai Pleshivtsev) | BELLINGSHAUSEN STATION, ANTARCTICA – Open World alumna Olga Stefanova on Aug. 20 won top honors for best cinematography in the 48 Hour Film Making Category of what has to be one of the world’s most exotic film fests: the Winter International Film Festival of Antarctica. Like its competing entries, all shot during the first two days of August, Stefanova’s film, “One Day of Vladimir Fyodorovich’s Life,” is under five minutes long and contains certain required elements, including a temperamental chef character and the line “Do you want to buy a dog?” Stefanova, who took part in a 2008 Open World exchange hosted by CEC ArtsLink and International Film Seminars at Colgate College in Hamilton, New York, is in Antarctica filming a documentary on the 54th Russian Antarctic Expedition. She is blogging about her polar experience in Russian at http://ostefanova.livejournal.com/ and posting videos, including her award-winning short, to http://vimeo.com/stefanova
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