Crows – Nature is watching us

Corvids are the only animals that humans have been observing and studying for thousands of years and that have the ability to pass on this knowledge to their offspring. The film follows the thesis that ravens have built up a “collective knowledge” of the cultural history of humanity thanks to their extraordinary cognitive abilities.
Data
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Minority coproduction
- Format
- DCP, 100 Min
- Release
- 20.10.2023
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 6.824
- Funding Film Institute
- 114.778 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 27 %
- Share of total production costs
- 9 %
- Television investment
- 95.000 €
- Co-production
Lucky Film (CH, 65%)
- International funding
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, Zürcher Filmstiftung, Suissimage, UBS Kulturstiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- Vienna, Japan, India, USA/Canada, Germany, Switzerland
- Shooting time
- July 2018 - July 2019
- Days of shooting
- 70
- Completion
- Winter 2019/2020
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
- Production
- ALLEGRO Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Producer Austria
- Helmut Grasser
- Director
- Martin Schilt
- Script-concept
- Martin Schilt
- DOP
- Attila Boa, Karen Vazquez-Guadarrama
- Editor
- Marina Wernli
- Sound engineer
- Marco Teufen, Andreas Hagemann
- Sound design
- Cornelia Baumgartner, Bernhard Belej, Jacques Kieffer
- Music
- Peter Scherer
- German Title
- Krähen – Nature is watching us
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
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