Inese Boka-Grube

PRODUCER, MISTRUS MEDIA

1Currently our production company Mistrus Media is working on production of the feature film Maria’s Silence (produced by Inese Boka-Grube and Gints Grube) by director Davis Sımanis, one of Latvia’s most internationally prominent directors. The film tells the life story of European silent film era star Maria Leiko. Our co-production model for the feature Maria’s Silence was to include regions with similar historic experiences, that in terms of filmmaking would add the talents and possibilities of different countries in creating a film about a significant experience of the shared European 20th century history that is still important today. We are delighted to continue working together with our co-production partners in France (Lilith Films) and Lithuania (Broom Films).

Other projects to highlight would be the feature-length documentary Emptiness (director Viesturs Kairišs, produced by Elına Gedin¸a-Ducena - a German, Italian, and Romanian co-production about the emptiness of different European regions in the beginning of the 21st century), TV series Boarding House in a Manor and the 2nd part of the documentary Coming of Age by Latvian documentary maker helmer Ivars Seleckis, that after seven years continues following the life stories of seven children in Latvia.

2As one of the leading film production companies in Latvia, Mistrus Media produces films as international co-productions, therefore we are interested in discussing our upcoming films with new co-production partners, as well as work on the international sales of our recently released features – January (2022) by director Viesturs Kairišs (WP Tribeca FF, Best International Narrative), The Land (2022) by director Ivars Seleckis (WP IDFA) and Samuel’s Travels (2021) by director Aik Karapetian (WP Fantastic Fest). During the past years Mistrus Media has acted as co-production partner and as service production partner for several internationally acclaimed features (Natural Light by Denes Nagy, 2021 WP Berlinale, Hatching by Hanna Bergholm, 2022, WP Sundance). We are interested to discuss new minority co-productions of feature films and film projects looking for service production and cash rebate in Latvia.

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