
THE WILD ANDES
3x50'
Format: 4 k
Year: 2018
Director / Producer:
Christian Baumeister
Camera:
Christian Baumeister
Alexander Sommer
Philipp Klein
Christian Muñoz-Donoso
Christiaan Muñoz-Salas
Jim Clare
Editor:
Stefan Reiss
Music:
Oliver Heuss
EP 1: Life in the Clouds
The Andes is not just the longest chain of mountains on the planet, it is the most dynamic. Amid swirling mist, drenching humidity and clinging to precipitous slopes, sibling spectacled bear cubs learn how to find food through subtly-changing seasons; a troop of ultra-rare woolly monkeys raise a new generation of infants in the canopy; and dazzling hummingbirds insert miraculously-shaped bills into perfect-fit petals. This is the story of how the uplift of the Andes has caused an explosion of life-forms.

EP 2: Extreme Survival
Against a dramatic backdrop of super-heated geysers, arid grasslands and snow-capped volcanos, the fortunes of a newborn vicuna foal, and that of a flamingo colony, unfold. This is the breath-taking story of how animals on the high, central Andean plains have adapted to a world fired by volcanic heat and pinched by thirst and thin air. But even here life has found surprising ways to survive. A marsupial called ‘the elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum’ stores fat in its tail and draws on it as needed. It can even shrink its internal organs to save energy when food is scarce.
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EP 3: Patagonia Untamed
Surrounded by mighty glaciers and fortress-like granite peaks, battered by Antarctic winds and icy rain, a female puma tries to raise its family and tracks its prey across the rugged landscape Condors soar high above this lonely mountain range, and compete with the Puma for food, as does the Patagonian Fox. Life in the southern Andes has had to pit itself against some of the most brutal conditions on earth. But Patagonia also has very different side: Moisturized by Pacific fog, the Valdivian rainforest is bursting with natural treasures.

AWARDS
40th News & Documentary EMMY AWARD, USA 2019
*Nomination for Outstanding Music & Sound
40th News & Documentary EMMY AWARD, USA 2019
*Nomination for Outstanding Cinematography
New York Festivals 2019 TV & FILM Awards
* GOLD MEDAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
World Media Festival, Hamburg 2019
*INTERMEDIA AWARD GOLD, Nature & Wildlife
