Independent film · Global · 2026Film
Fukushima.
AIST’s independent drama follows an engineer whose confidence in Fukushima Daiichi collapses as the disaster unfolds around him.
- Brand
- Independent film
- Agency
- AIST
- Market
- Global
- Region
- Global
- Year
- 2026
The challenge
Sustain character, setting and camera continuity through a film designed as one continuous shot. The makers describe Fukushima as fiction inspired by the events of 11 March 2011, with invented characters, rather than a documentary reconstruction.
The idea
Stay beside a veteran engineer as routine work becomes an escalating emergency. Restrained performances and a documentary-style visual treatment make his loss of control the dramatic centre of the film. The public project explains the continuity challenge and provides the production assets.
Results
- Festival cash prize: US$200,000.
Case study source: Higgsfield / filmmaker project Source ↗
Awards
- Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026Freeform2nd Place
Credits
- Studio
- AIST
- Filmmaker
- Ivan Basov
- Filmmaker
- Ivan Kovalev
- Filmmaker
- Nikolay Lesovsky
- Filmmaker
- Yevhen Kunpan
- Project creator account
- @aist