Drone Video of the Week Winner May - Week 1, Kirillumrikhin!

The votes are in, and in our closest contest yet the winner of Drone Video of the Week is… Antarctica, Union Glacier Camp. Mamont Cup Expedition, January 2018 by kirillumrikhin! Video creator, Kirill Umrikhin, said the film is a piece about the Mamont Cup Expedition to Union Glacier from last January. The professional actions sports and travel photographer shot the video using his DJI Phantom 4 Pro Originally from Krasnogorsk, a city outside of Moscow, Kirill’s work has been shown throughout Russia at a variety of galleries, airports, malls and resorts. His clients include action sports brands Quiksilver, Roxy and DC, as well as Nike, adidas, Nokia, Nissan, Redbull, Pepsi Co, Chanel, and more. He’s won the Best of Russia 2013 and 2014 for his work and was a semi-finalist for Red Bull Illume 2012. Congratulations, Kirill! Thank you to everyone who voted. See all five Drone Video of the Week Nominees from May, Week 1 HERE. In the AirVūz Drone Video of the Week Contest, one content creator will be chosen for a weekly USD$1,000 prize. Each weekly contest covers a seven (7) day period. To be eligible to win the award for a given Contest Week, the video must meet all of the following conditions (1) it must include, at the discretion of the AirVuz curation staff, substantial drone video content, (2) it must not include any visual or audio content subject to third party copyright protection, and (3) it must be uploaded to AirVuz (www.airvuz.com) prior to 11:59PM US Central Time (GMT -5/-5) on the final upload date. For each Contest Week, the AirVūz curation staff will select five (5) eligible videos as finalists. AirVuz will then provide the means for public voting on the finalist videos, and will designate the winning contributor from the voting results. Winning videos from each Contest Week will be announced the following Friday. The USD $1,000 cash prize will be paid via PayPal to an account designated by the winning contributor. To be eligible to collect their prize, winner must have either (1) activated, prior to the announcement of the winner, the "Donate" button on the AirVuz website and attached a valid Paypal account to it or (2) respond, within seven (7) days, to a request by AirVuz sent via the e-mail used to register their AirVuz account, with an e-mail confirming their Paypal account. If the winning contributor does not complete either (1) or (2) within 14 days of the announcement that their video was chosen as the winning video, the prize is subject to forfeiture at the discretion of AirVuz. If AirVuz does elect to invoke forfeiture it will award the weekly prize to the video with the next highest voting total. All rules regarding the AirVuz Drone Video of the Week Contest are subject to change by AirVuz at any time in its sole discretion. AirVūz | United by Drone VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Angie Avestruz - “Hello, AirVuz Community. After a record breaking weekend of over 23,000 votes & a super close race, the Drone Video of the Week and the winner of $1000 is, ‘Antarctica, Union Glacier Camp. Mamont Cup Expedition, January 2018' by Kirilln Umrikhin. Kirill is a Russian, professional action-sports and travel photographer. He describes the expedition by saying ‘We seemed to be on another planet. A silent, icy desert for thousands of miles around. There is almost no precipitation and almost no people or animals. Only mountains and glaciers.’ Congratulations, again, to Kirill Umrikhin.” “Well, it says in in the name. it’s the Drone Video of the Week, so remember it’s a weekly competition. Keep uploading your drone videos to airvuz.com for your chance to win. The next 5 nominees will be announced in a couple of days. We’ll see you then!”