March 22

The Eagle Huntress

Today we watched a movie “The Eagle Huntress” and it was a really cool movie. The movie was about a girl names Aisholpan who was learning to be an eagle hunter from her dad. A lot of her ancestors had been eagle hunters for a long time and it was a tradition or culture in their family. She caught her own eaglet with the help of her dad so she could compete in the eagle hunters competition in Ulgii. She got first place as the only girl huntress and beat a record for how fast the eagle flies to you from a mountain. In the mind of all the men that meant nothing if you just won the competition you had to prove you are a true eagle hunter by going to the mountain in the winter and hunting a fox.

We saw an article that was about if “The Eagle Huntress” was really a documentary or not. They asked the director a lot of questions if they filmed certain scenes over and over again but they didn’t so it was a real documentary. Otto Bell denied that none of the parts were retaken except at the end when they win the eagle hunter competition.