WALKING UNDER WATER
ABOUT
The Badjao people once lived like fish, spending the majority of their time in the water, but with the encroachment of modern civilization, that way of life has become nearly extinct. WALKING UNDER WATER presents the Badjao tribe’s ancient traditions and collective experience as a magical narrative, spinning the urgent pressures and problems they face into a hybrid of fantasy, fiction and fact.
A film director and alpinist, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Wajda Film School in Warsaw, Poland. An author of world-wide awarded documentary films: "What happened on Pam Island" (2010) made on Greenland; "Walking Under Water" (2014) - Hot Docs Jury Prize; "K2.Touching the Sky" (2015) one of the most awarded Polish mountain films in the history and "The Wall of Shadows" (2020) premiered at Hot Docs, winner of 30 international festivals, including Zürcher Filmpreis for Best Directing. In 2023, Eliza has become the first woman ever to be awarded the International Alliance for Mountain Film's Grand Prix, for outstanding achievement in mountain-related filmmaking.
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