More info on the project
Deneia is one of the 4 villages of Cyprus that are completely in the buffer zone after the Turkish invasion in Cyprus in 1974. At a short distance from the village there is the prehistoric settlement of Deneia, where the carved tombs of the cemetery contributed to the rapid growth rodent population. These rodents afflicted the community in agricultural and livestock work as well as being a source of infection and disease. Now the community is using a biological way to fight rodents. Using Barn Owls it replaced the use of harmful rodenticides.
Credits
Produced by: Treehouse Films
Directed/Edited by:
Constantinos Christou
Director of Photography:
Constantinos Christou
Additional Footage: Nicholas
Loizou, Haris Nicolaou
Interviewees: Christakis
Panayiotou, Christodoulos
Christodoulou, Haris Nicolaou
Filmed in: Deneia Village
Music by: SLPSTRM
Lead Researcher: Haris
Nicolaou
Translation by: Yiannis
Georgiades
Awards
Winner at the “Cyrus International Monthly Festival of Toronto”
Winner at the “Nature Without Borders International Film Festival”
Finalist at the “Prague International Monthly Film Festival”
Finalist at the “Kosice International Monthly Film Festival”
Finalist at the “4theatre Selection”
Semi Finalist at the “Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival”
Semi Finalist at the “CMS Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Festival”
Quarter Finalist at the “Jade Jaguar Cinema Festival”
Official Selection at the “International Nature Film Festival Gödöllő”
Official Selection at the “The University of Idaho Fish & Wildlife Film
Festival”
Official Selection at the “Wildlife Conservation Film Festival”
Official Selection at the “Tulum World Environment Film Festival”
Official Selection at the “Babul Eco Film Festival”
Official Selection at the “The Lift-Off Sessions”
Referenced at the “Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market Catalogue”
An interview with Constantinos Christou by the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation about his work.
An interview with Constantinos Christou at the International Nature Film Festival of Gödöllő for the short documentary “Life in the Buffer Zone”.
