About the project

This blog's purpose is to document the making of a documentary, respectively a crossmedia project. The topic: The Russian Old-Believers who live at the shore of Lake Peipus, the life and daily reality of people here in these villages, their stories and memories and thoughts. While the Old-Belivers and their traditions are the main topic, we also look around and keep an open eye for whatever else interesting is going on.

From August 7th until August 19th, 2010, we come here to first look around and get to know the area and people, and then also to film and take photographs of what we find. There will be a second trip to the area approximately in October, and a third one in winter 2010/2011.

Our plan is to create a website that will collect various stories, people, memories from the villages, and provide an insight into the life of these people. Parallel to this, we will produce a documentary film.

The project team are Marc Brummund, a freelance director from Hamburg; Bettina Herzner, a freelance DOP from Hamburg; and Rene Fischer, a partner at the advertising agency The Matter. They are supported by Katerina Hitruhhina and Mairi Hüüdma from Tallinn. Photos on this blog are taken by all these five.


"Fish & Onions" is supported by and part of the First Motion program, a cooperation between the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH and the Baltic Sea Programme 2007-2013.