VIRUNGA
Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel
“Urgent investigative report and unforgettable drama, Virunga is a work of heart-wrenching tenderness and heart-stopping suspense.”
- LA Times
The Academy-Award and BAFTA nominated Virunga is the incredible true story of a group of courageous people risking their lives to build a better future.
In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain gorillas. In this wild but enchanted environment, a small and embattled team of park rangers - including an ex-child soldier turned ranger, a carer of orphan gorillas and a Belgian conservationist - protect this UNESCO world heritage site from armed militia, poachers and the dark forces struggling to control Congo's rich natural resources. When the newly formed M23 rebel group declares war in May 2012, a new conflict threatens the lives and stability of everyone and everything they've worked so hard to protect.
CREW
Directed by - Orlando von Einsiedel
Produced by - Joanna Natasegara, Orlando von Einsiedel
Impact Producer - Joanna Natasegara
Executive Producer - Leonardo DiCaprio
Executive Producers - Jon Drever, Maxyne Franklin, Jess Search
Executive Producers - Adam del Deo, Lisa Nishimura, Howard G. Buffet
Cinematography - Franklin Dow, Orlando von Einsiedel
Edited by - Masahiro Hirakubo
Edited by - Katie Bryer, David Charap, Miikka Leskinen, St. John O'Rorke, Peta Ridley
Original Music by - Patrick Jonsson
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Academy Awards - Best Documentary, Feature (Nominee, 2015)
BAFTA - Best Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
British Independent Film Awards - Best Documentary (Nominee, 2014)
Peabody Awards - Peabody Award (Winner, 2015)
Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Winner, 2015)
Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special (Nominee, 2015)
duPont Columbia Awards - Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (Winner, 2015)
Tribeca Film Festival - Disruptive Innovation Award (Winner, 2014)
Cinema Eye Honours Awards - Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (Winner, 2015)
Cinema Eye Honors - Outstanding Achievement in Production (Nominee, 2015)
Cinema Eye Honors - Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking (Nominee, 2015)
Honesty Oscars - Best Picture (Winner, 2015)
Serving Cinema Awards - Best Film (Winner)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards - Best Original Song (Winner, 2014)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards - Best Motion Picture, Documentary (Nominee, 2014)
Humane Society - Genesis Award for Film (Winner, 2015)
Media Impact Festival - Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media (Winner, 2015)
REACT: To Film - Impact Award (Winner)
Cinema for Peace - International Green Film Award (Winner, 2015)
One World Media Awards - Best Feature Documentary Award (Winner, 2015)
One World Media Awards- Corruption Reporting Award (Winner, 2015)
The Grierson Trust British Documentary Awards - Best Cinema Documentary (Winner, 2015)
Environmental Media Awards - Best Documentary (Winner, 2015)
Black Reel Awards - Outstanding Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
Music and Sound Awards - Best Original Composition - Feature Film Score (Nominee, 2015)
Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
PGA Awards - Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion (Nominee, 2015)
Directors Guild of America - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
Global Inheritance - The Bigger Picture Film Award (Nominee)
Georgia Film Critics Association - Best Original Song (Nominee, 2015)
Gold Derby Awards - Documentary Feature (Nominee, 2015)
Hollywood Music in Media Awards - Best Song, Documentary (Nominee, 2014)
Online Film & Television Association - Best Documentary Feature Film (Nominee, 2015)
Vancouver Film Critics Circle - Best Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
Hot Docs - Emerging International Filmmaker Award (Winner, 2014)
Hot Docs - Audience Award (Nominee, 2014)
Hot Docs - Best International Documentary (Nominee, 2014)
Doxa Film Festival - Best Documentary Feature (Winner, 2014)
Docville International Film Festival - ConScience Award (Winner, 2014)
Little Rock Film Festival - Golden Rock for Best Documentary Award (Winner, 2014)
Cinemambiente - Best International Documentary (Winner, 2014)
Cinemambiente - Student Jury Award (Winner, 2014)
AFI Silverdocs - Best of Fest (Winner, 2014)
Guanajuato International Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary (Winner, 2014)
Green Film Festival - Audience Award (Winner, 2014)
Filmambiente - Special Jury Award (Winner, 2014)
Filmambiente - People’s Choice Award (Winner, 2014)
Kinookus Food and Film Festival - The Big Oyster Award for Best Feature Documentary (Winner, 2014)
Crested Butte Film Festival- Act Now! Award (Winner, 2014)
Camden International Film Festival - Harrell Award for Best Documentary Feature (Winner, 2014)
Abu Dhabi Film Festival - Black Pearl Award for Best Documentary Feature (Winner, 2014)
HRFF Inconvenient Films Festival - Audience Choice Award (Winner, 2014)
Hamptons International Film Festival - Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice (Winner, 2014)
Hamptons International Film Festival - Zelda Penzel Giving Voice to the Voiceless Award (Winner, 2014)
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival - Best Environmental Documentary (Winner, 2014)
New York Wild Film Festival - Best in Festival (Winner, 2015)
Zagreb Dox - Big Stamp (Winner, 2015)
Zagreb Dox - Special Mention (Winner, 2015)
Bermuda International Film Festival - Audience Choice Award (Winner, 2015)
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Audience Award (Winner, 2015)
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Best of Fest (Winner, 2015)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - WWF Award (Winner, 2015)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Audience Award (Winner, 2015)
FICMA - Best Documentary (Winner, 2014)
FICMEC - Best Feature Documentary (Winner, 2015)
AfryKamera African Film Festival - Best Documentary (Winner, 2015)
DocsBarcelona - Best Film (Nominee, 2015)
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival - Green Cross Award (Winner, 2015)
Shanghai International Film Festival - Golden Goblet Award for Best Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
Milan Film Festival - Best Documentary (Winner, 2015)
Milan International Filmmaker Festival - Best Film (Winner, 2015)
Durban International Film Festival - Best Documentary (Nominee, 2015)
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival - Green Dox Award (Winner, 2015)
Budapest International Documentary Festival - Let’s Face Oppression Award (Winner, 2015)
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary (Winner, 2015)
Zurich Film Festival - Best International Documentary Film (Nominee, 2015)
Encounters Documentary Festival - Audience Choice Award: Best International Film (Winner, 2015)
Mountainfilm, Telluride - 2014
Edinburgh International Film Festival - 2014
International Film Festival of Kerala - 2014
New Zealand International Film Festival - 2014
Traverse City Film Festival - 2014
Melbourne International Film Festival - 2014
EBS International Documentary Festival - 2014
Docuwest Documentary l Film Festival - 2014
Bergen International Film Festival - 2014
Tri-Continental Human Rights Film Festival - 2014
Reykjavik International Film Festival - 2014
Antenna International Documentary Festival - 2014
Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival - 2014
Marda Loop Justice Film Festival - 2014
Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival - 2014
Filmhuis Klappei - 2014
IDFA - 2014
Human Rights Watch Film Festival - 2015
Magnificent 7 Documentary Film Festival - 2015
13th British Council Film Festival - 2015
Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature Environmental Film Festival - 2015
Cambridge Film Festival - 2015
One Earth Film Festival - 2015
Environmental Film Festival - 2015
Docudays UA - 2015
Vilnius International Film Festival - 2015
Luxor African Film Festival - 2015
One World Romania - 2015
One World Festival, Bratislava - 2015
One World Film Festival, Ottawa - 2014
34th Istanbul Film Festival - 2015
Urban Nomad Film Festival - 2015
DocumentaMadrid - 2015
Madeira Film Festival - 2015
European Independent Film Festival - 2015
Ecozine Film Festival - 2015
Muestra de Cine de Ascaso - 2015
Transilvania International Film Festival - 2015
Addis International Film Festival - 2015
Underhill Fest - 2015
Gdańsk DocFilm Festival - 2015
Salaam Kivu International Film Festival - 2015
Shpeena DOX - 2015
Motovun Film Festival - 2015
Kratkofil Plus International Film Festival - 2015
FânFest Roșia Montană - 2015
Forest Film Festival - 2015
Biciklana Fest - 2015
FARAD Documentary Film Festival - 2015
Lesotho Film Festival - 2015
International Green Culture Festival - 2015
Festival du Film Européen - 2015
Animal Film Festival - 2015
Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival - 2016