RUSSIA - Slava Cheltuev, Telengit community leader and shaman from Russian Altai's high altitude Kosh Agach Raion traverses the Altai's sacred lands. He reflects on our 21st century world and stresses the importance of reviving vital traditional knowledge – age-old wisdom that instructs the respectful and harmonic relationship between local environment and human behaviour. Featuring: Slava Cheltuev Director/Camera/Editor: Ivan Golovnev Producer/Editor: Citt Williams Associate Producer: Chagat Almashev, Maya Erlenbaeva Translations: Irena Tozyyakova Graphics: David Jimenez Sound Mixer: Tfer Newsome Drivers: Vyacheslav Tabakaev & Arzhan Cheltuev Special thanks to Slava Cheltuev and his family, and the people of Kosh Agach Raion; Gorno Altaisk State University for scientific data; Gorno Altaisk Meridian for archive Nature Park Quiet Zone Ukok” for logistics Shot on location in Kosh Agach Raion, Altai Republic, Russia Duration: 8:33 minutes Developed and produced for United Nations University (UNU) by UNU Media Studio & Foundation of sustainable development of Altai, in association with UNU-IAS Traditional knowledge Initiative and The Christensen Fund. For more information: Our World 2.0 www.ourworld.unu.edu, UNU IAS-TKI www.unutki.org, www.fsda.ru United Nations University has published this work under a Creative Commons license - share alike, attribution, no derivatives, non-commercial Further information for this film can be found at film’s website: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/land-has-breath-respecting-nature-in-altai/ *About this Project* The United Nations University together with Aleine Ecological movement of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences - Institute of Zoology and Parasitology, and Foundation of sustainable development of Altai, collaborated as partners in the coordination, production and dissemination of 3 short videos dealing with Central Asian Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change. Collaboratively made with Indigenous storytellers, the videobriefs are told in local languages, respect Intellectual Property rights and provide storytellers with media training, resources and a fair media engagement model for future projects. The final videos played alongside other international climate change videos at a locally coordinated forum event and later at a special screening at the National Museum of Denmark during the Copenhagen COP15 meeting. *About the filmmakers* Ivan Golovnev- Director/Camera/Editor Ivan was born in 1978 in Omsk, a city in southwest Siberia. He graduated from the Omsk State University, History Department. In 2002 he finished college at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio in Ekaterinburg. In 2005 he finished the Highest Courses of Film Writers and Directors in Moscow. In addition to studying theory, he has worked as an assistant director during the filming of documentary and feature films and also as a director of a local TV station. He directed the documentary television series The Time of Myths about the traditional culture of the Khanty and the Mansi, two indigenous peoples of Russia’s northwest Siberia. In 2004, he completed a documentary entitled Tiny Katerina, which chronicles three years from the life of a small Khanty girl and her family who exist in harmony with nature and follow the rites of their traditional culture, until the oil industry disrupts their livelihood. This film has received awards at several international festivals. Currently, Golovnev is completing a short feature film and working on a documentary about representatives of different denominations in Siberia. Ivan is a member of the Russian Filmmakers Union (RFU) and has been a winner and participant of the following international film festivals and film projects: 2005 Open World Leadership Program for filmmakers (USA); 2006 BERLINALE Talent Campus (Competition Section); 2007 Why Democracy International Film Project; 2008 EthnoFilm Project (producer); 2009 Crossing Boundaries International Film Project; Citt Williams- Producer/Editor Citt is a documentary filmmaker at the UNU Media Studio with over 12 years producing experience in broadcast media. Citt’s produced documentary films have been screened at festivals including Cannes (Yellow Fella), Sundance, Mumbai, Melbourne and by broadcasters including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Discovery and National Geographic. She has a Masters degree in documentary from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Sydney) and a Business degree in Film and TV Production from QUT (Brisbane). Within UNU, her unit “Media Studio” (MS) has grounded expertise in online learning, interactive media and video production and in linking development issues with visual media and online content on social and environmental issues. Her role in the UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative seeks to build greater understanding and facilitate awareness of traditional knowledge (TK) to inform action by Indigenous peoples, loca