BALTIC PITCHING FORUM 7-8 October, 2016 | Vilnius, Lithuania ORGANIZER
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Contents
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Introduction Agenda Trainer and panelists
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List of selected projects Riga’s Lilac Rock Among Rocks Part 3 : Observing the W(h)it(e)ness Metamorphosis Lisa The Robot My Days With Liina Platypus Snow Shelter The Juggler When Lights Go Out
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Forum team and contacts Venues map
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But as successful as the Baltic Pitching Forum has proved, it is not about to rest on its laurels. As we look to the future we are constantly looking at ways of expanding and adapting to the ever changing world of filmmaking to best serve all those who come to the event. We want to continue to highlight the great talent that exists in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and help them put their best foot forward into the international film industry. Our work never ends but – as the 2016 edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum will undoubtedly show – it will all be worth it as we help to showcase some truly amazing talents.
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Indeed, the Baltic Pitching Forum has cemented its reputation as not only being an important launchpad for talents from all three Baltic countries but also a vital networking opportunity for all those involved.
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As it enters its fourth year, the Baltic Pitching Forum is now in a position where it can start looking back on its successes, with numerous pitched projects proving popular on the festival circuit. Castratus The Boar – originally pitched at the 2013 edition of the BPF – went on to win the Grand Prix at the Tampere Film Festival in 2015. Butterfly Man – a winning pitch at the 2014 BPF – went on to have a theatrical release in its native Estonia. These are just two examples of those projects whose experience at the Baltic Pitching Forum has proved invaluable and there are sure to be many more over the years to come.
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Introduction
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We thank to all the sponsors and panelists for the help making it happen. And thank you, filmmakers, for continuing to inspire us.
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The Baltic Pitching Forum organizers
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Agenda 7 October FRIDAY
Arrivals
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 - 12.00 Ready to Pitch: Project Presentation and Storytelling, Part II (Gabriele Brunnenmeyer) 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00- 13.15 Creative Europe MEDIA - News for Short Film Makers (Eva Brazdžionytė, Creative Europe Desk LT)
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10.00 - 10.45 Ready to Pitch: Project Presentation and Storytelling, Part I (Gabriele Brunnenmeyer)
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9.30 -10.00 Registration and morning coffee
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20.00 Welcome dinner (Kitchen Restaurant)
PUBLIC PART:
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6 October THURSDAY
13.15 – 14.15 Together or alone: do you need anyone to help get your films seen? Discussion moderated by Laurence Boyce (Panelists and other guests) ONLY FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH THE PROJECTS:
14.30 – 19.00 Group work (Gabriele Brunnenmeyer) 19.00 Dinner (Kitchen Restaurant)
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Agenda 8 October SATURDAY MODERATOR:
Laurence Boyce 09.30 – 10.00 Registration and morning coffee
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10.00 – 11.15 Pitching Session I (5 projects) 11.15 – 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 – 12.30 Pitching session II (4 projects) 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break 15.00 – 16.00 Debriefing & group work (for participants only) 16.00 – 16.15 Best Pitch nomination 16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break 16.45 – 18.00 One-to-one meetings with Panelists (for participants only) 19.00 Farewell dinner (La Boheme Restaurant)
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Event venue: Radisson Blu Royal Astorija Hotel, Didžioji str. 35/2, 01128 Vilnius Organizer reserves the right of changing the programme. More information: www.bpf.lt
Forum trainer
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Forum moderator
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Having worked as a journalist, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer was in charge of the MEDIA Antenna Berlin-Brandenburg, acting as an artistic adviser for the MEDIA training initiative Moonstone International as well as an artistic director for Connecting Cottbus till the end of 2010. From 2013 till December 2014 she was the head of studies for the MEDIA supported training program Maia Workshops. Since 2005 she is working for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film as a freelanced project and script advisor. Since 2013 she is acting as the conference coordinator for the BLS Film Conference Incontri in Italy, South Tyrol. Furthermore Gabriele is working as consultant for script development, packaging and project presentation for single projects as well as for Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize, HFF MĂźnchen, Sam Spiegel School and others. Gabriele lives in Leipzig and Berlin.
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Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (Germany)
Laurence Boyce (Estonia) Laurence Boyce divides his time between the UK and Estonia. He is a regular correspondent for Screen International and the editor of Cineuropa Shorts. He also works for Sleepwalkers Short Film Festival in Tallinn, where he is the programme director. He is a member of BAFTA, FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics), the London Critics Circle and the European Film Academy.
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Forum panelists
Laurent Crouzeix is Co-Executive Director of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival & Market. He is the programmer of the International Competition and project manager on the shortfilmdepot.com online platform. Laurent is also the coordinator of Euro Connection, the coproduction meetings for shorts he launched in 2009 as part of the Short Film Market in Clermont-Ferrand. He also produces various targeted industry meetings and implements partnerships with other festivals and markets. He’s regularly invited to industry events as expert in Europe and beyond.
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Laurent Crouzeix (France)
Jing Haase (Denmark) Jing Haase is the market manager at Nordisk Panorama, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of Nordic short and documentary films. Each year Nordisk Panorama arranges the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, showcasing the best shorts and documentaries from the five Nordic countries. Jing organises the NP Market, an online screening room and a series of talks with market professionals. Additionally, she works to promote the films registered at NP internationally and provides advice on international distribution of short films.
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After studying psychology in Belgium, Wim Vanacker moved to Dublin to work as a psychologist in the field of drug addiction. Three years later, he picked up studying again at EICAR where he made two shorts : Endgame and The Naked leading the Blind. After graduating, he discovered NISI MASA – European Network of Young Cinema where he became the Head of the Script Department and the Project manager of the MEDIA funded project, European Short Pitch. Recently, he founded Sireal Films, a Brussels based production company where he produced the VAF funded short film empire. As a writer/director, he’s currently developing the short film [ˈsɪə. ri.əl ].
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Wim Vanacker (France)
Theo Tsappos (Sweden) Theo Tsappos works as the festival manager for Swedish short films at the Swedish Film Institute. His main tasks are to promote Swedish short films, to get them distributed and exported internationally and recognized around some of the leading film festivals around the world.
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Sari Volanen is a commissioning editor at YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company. She works at the co-production department producing short films and documentaries mainly with Finnish independent filmmakers and producers. She is in charge of the strand called New Cinema on YLE/Teema which shows quirkly and cinematic films regardless of lenght and genre.
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Sari Volanen (Finland)
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Riho Unt (Estonia) Born in the Soviet Estonia on the 15th of May in 1956. Studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, graduated with the Diploma of Interior Architecture. Has been working as the scriptwriter, artist and director of animated films at Nukufilm studio since 1983. Has 33 years of experience and has created about the same amount of films of different length. The films have been awarded with more than 40 international prizes. The most recent film “The Master” has been selected to over 100 festival programmes and awarded 18 prizes: Grand Prix from Badalona, Espinho and Perugiast, Jury awards from Annecy, Ottawa and Hiroshima etc.
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Valentine Lodato is the co-founder of VODD, a french SVOD platform. Having worked several years in TV contents production, she realised that french audience had only access to a way too small part of worldwilde production and that TV channels and theaters are often unable to offer a sufficient range of formats and genres. Along with the other members of VODD’s team, she believes that users should find quality films more easily online, from all over the world and no matter what the genre and format. With VODD, her goal is to free legally the movies online and make them accessible wherever users need to find them.
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Valentine Lodato (France)
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List of selected projects English title
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Latvia
Lizete Upīte
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ROCK AMONG Roca entre las ROCKS PART 3 : Rocas Parte 3: ObOBSERVING THE servando la Blancura W(H)IT(E)NESS
Latvia
Andris Indāns Kaspars Lielgalvis Laura Prikule
Kaspars Lielgalvis
METAMORPHOSIS
Latvia
Ismene Daskarolis
Thom Palmen
LATVIA
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RIGA’S LILAC
Rīgas ceriņi
Metamorphosis
ESTONIA
LISA THE ROBOT
Lisa The Robot
Estonia
Kadri Nikopensius
Helen Lõhmus
MY DAYS WITH LIINA
Minu Päevad Liinaga
Estonia
Rein Zobel
Veli Rajasaar
Estonia
Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopez
Anni Aguraijuja
Ornitorrinco PLATYPUS
LITHUANIA
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SNOW SHELTER
Sniego pastogė
Lithuania
Robertas Nevecka
Giedrė Burokaitė
THE JUGGLER
Žonglierius
Lithuania
Skirmanta Jakaitė
Agnė Adomėnė
WHEN LIGHTS GO OUT
When Lights Go Out
Lithuania
Jonas Trukanas
Gabija Siurbytė
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Riga’s Lilac Rīgas Ceriņi
Estimated running time: 14 min.
Production country: Latvia
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Funding in place: 6600 Eur
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Director: Lizete Upīte
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Riga’s Lilac is a tragicomic story for adults about human right to stink. In a style of a documentary film, the story is based on real interviews with people, who reveal their emotional overwhelm caused by a strong smell by someone else.
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Director Lizete Upīte
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Lizete Upīte, born in 1987, is animation film director from Latvia. Lizete began her studies in 2006 in Estonia, in Baltic Film and Media school, studying Audiovisual Media. In 2008, during Erasmus exchange program in Portugal, Lizete made her first works in animation and applied for school of directing animation La Poudrière, in France. While enrolled, she made several films, including her graduation film “A Night on the Lake”, that travelled trough many festivals and received the prize of the best student film in National Film Festival of Latvia “Lielais Kristaps”. Contacts: Mail: lizete.upite@gmail.com Phone: +371 22015294
Rock Among Rocks Part 3: Observing the W(h)it(e)ness
Director: Andris Indāns, Laura Prikule, Kaspars Lielgalvis Producer: Kaspars Lielgalvis Production country: Latvia Production company: Totaldobže Art Centre
Production company profile: Totaldobže Art Centre is made to serve as an open platform for interdisciplinary contemporary art activities.
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The final part of the Rock Among Rocks trilogy zooms deeper in the realm of Camel Sultan, the World Witness. The limits of Reality are expanded by constant explorations of remote worlds not seen by the naked eye. Recollections of the past and dreams of a possible future are tied together in the mind space. Micro and macro events connect or collide. Memories overlap in the whiteness of the arctic landscape. Repeated images and repeated situations. The thermal camera registers some footprints in the vacant area between then and now, in the barren planes of the frozen, postapocalyptic Earth. Occasional radio signals from an abandoned greenhouse attempt to break through the windstorm. Not much to be seen, but something still is present.
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Roca entre las Rocas Parte 3: Observando la Blancura
Estimated running time: 15 min. Estimated budget: 15 000 Eur Funding in place: —
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Director / Producer Kaspars Lielgalvis
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Kaspars Lielgalvis is an artist and activist who works throughout the culture field, with interests including urban development, interdisciplinarity in contemporary art and the creation of self organized structures. Founder of TotaldobĹže Art Centre. He is based in Riga, Latvia. Contacts: Mail: kaspars@totaldobze.com Phone: +371 29451445
Metamorphosis Metamorphosis
Production companies: Full Glass Productions (Latvia) Exostis Press (Greece)
Estimated running time: 15 min. Estimated budget: 35 000 Eur Funding in place: 9000 Eur
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Production countries: Latvia, Greece
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Producer: Thom Palmen
Production company profile: Full Glass Productions is a newly established production company based in Latvia by a trio of experienced, award winning producers. It’s aim is to produce high quality shorts, documentaries and features for an international audience.
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Director: Ismene Daskarolis
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Metamorphosis focuses on the story of two characters living at the end of the world and attempts through it to reflect how humanity ended up there in the first place. The focus of the film states that in the end we may be granted with what we want, even if that brings on our own destruction.
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Director Ismene Daskarolis
Producer Thom Palmen
Ismene Daskarolis is an awarded filmmaker currently living in Athens and Berlin. She graduated the School of Fine and Applied arts in Thessaloniki in 2012, specialising in video art, installation and painting, while having already studied Film and Television at the New York College in Athens. Since then she has written, directed and produced three short films. Her work varies among narrative shorts, experimental shorts, video art and dance films and has been screened in multiple international film festivals. In 2013 she was appointed Chief Editor of the Film department at Exostis Press, where she continues to work.
Thom Palmen has his background in film festivals since the early 1980’s. Turned to producing films some 10 years ago. Currently developing a number of projects, both documentaries, features but mainly shorts with young talented directors from Europe.
Contacts: Mail: ismene_16@hotmail.com Phone: + 4915226072729
Contacts: Mail: thompalmen104@gmail.com Phone: +37125603210
Lisa the Robot
Producer: Helen Lõhmus Production country: Estonia Production company: Oree films
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Production company profile: Oree Films is an Estonian production management agency and company established in 2013 by audiovisual producer Sten Saluveer and producer and production designer Helen Lõhmus. Oree Films focuses on international production service, co-production and post-production facilitation between Europe, North America and Asia with offices in Tallinn, Estonia, and Tokyo, Japan.
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Director: Kadri Nikopensius
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It is during a period of political instability when Sinead, a brilliant scientist, creates a Lisa on a research campus. She models Lisa’s brain after the human neo-cortex, which enables her to evolve. Lisa and Sinead become very close – they establish a mother-daughter relationship. But Lisa’s education is interrupted when the institution is invaded and she witnesses the death of her mother Sinead. Now Lisa has to have her revenge, for she has been taught how to feel.
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Lisa the Robot
Estimated running time: 15 min. Estimated budget: 35 000 Eur Funding in place: —
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Director Kadri Nikopensius
Producer Helen Lõhmus
Estonian film-maker and painter who is focusing on subjects like ethics, warfare and social struggles. After receiving a B.A. degree from the University of Tartu Fine Arts Department, she started film-making as a 1st AC on short films. Having studied Film Arts M.A. in Tallinn University, Baltic Film and Media School, and having worked on over 70 short films, commercials and TV shows, she now specializes mostly in film post production. She has participated in art exhibitions in UK, Finland and Estonia, including KUMU Art Museum. Latest solo exhibition Particle 5 about international warfare was held in February 2016. She has done numerous works as a cinematographer, including audio visual piece
Estonian producer and production designer serving both for domestic and international productions in television and film. Starting out in 2004 in television with shows like - Pride of Estonia (highest rated annual gala show), Better than the Neighbour, Dream Agency, Starhour etc. Soon came the international projects Reality Star, dir. Raoul Suvi, starring Eric Roberts (Estonia-USA-France), Wine Mansion (Estonia-France), First Love, dir. Egor Druzhinin (Russia) along with many music videos and commercials. In 20102011 served as a production manager and Art Director for high school TV series “After School” (Walt Disney), in 2012 was also responsible for post-production coordination on the same project. Most recently served as producer and art director for Lao-Estonia-France coproduction Dearest Sister, dir. Mattie Do, producer for Estonian-Russian co-production Dream Fish, dir. Anton Bilzho. Has worked on more than 10 music videos and commercials as a producer, more than 40 music videos/commercials as an Art Director.
Poco A Poco Morendo Con Amore (2014), TV comedy pilot Slackers (2015) and short comedy Relapse (2016). Most recently she worked as a casting director and 2nd AC for an award-winning Estonian-German co-production short horror film When Demons Die (2016). Contacts: Mail: kadri.nikopensius@gmail.com Phone: +37255613397
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Contacts: Mail: helen@oreefilms.com Phone: +37253480281
My Days With Liina
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Producer: Veli Rajasaar
Estimated running time: 20 min.
Production country: Estonia
Estimated budget: 20 000 Eur
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Director: Rein Zobel
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Coming to enjoy a quiet holiday with his family, a middle-aged writer Rainar finds that he forgot to bring food. He travels to a nearby farm to buy something from a local young woman Liina. Much to the surprise of his wife Kadrin and 11-year old daughter, Rainar decides not to leave and stays with the strange woman. Kadrin can’t bear the situation and goes back to town and seeks help from Rainar’s father. Rainar finds himself living the idyllic country life with Liina but feels that something is amiss. Is the new-found love really an unstoppable force or are there more sinister powers at play?
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Minu Päevad Liinaga
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Director Rein Zobel
Producer Veli Rajasaar
Rein Zobel is an Estonian director and motion graphics animator. He has a MA in Psychology at University of Tartu. In 2015 he finished Baltic Film and Media School and got BA in Film Arts (directing). He directed a few short films: “Decay“ (Denmark 2011), “Awesome“ (2013), “Love for Two Boxes of Antibiotics“ (2014), “King of Estonia“ (2014), “Hunger Week“ (2015) (teaser).
Veli was born in Tallinn, 1992. In 2015 he got his BA in Baltic Film and Media School College as a producer. With Rein Zobel he made a short film „Love for Two Boxes of Antibiotics“ (2014), also produced a few other films: “Maja, mis peegeldab ajalugu” (2014), “Mother: in the Name of the Millions” (2014), “A Dozen Questions about Estonia” (2015), “Hunger Week” (2015).
Contacts: Mail: rein.zobel@gmail.com Phone: +3725043003
Contacts: Mail: veli.rajasaar@gmail.com Phone: +372 5565 2545
Platypus
Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes López Producer: Anni Aguraijuja Production country: Estonia Production company: Kinosaurus Film Production company profile: Kinosaurus Film is an Estonian film production company that was established in 2011 by ambitious younger generation filmmakers. The company specialises in producing and co-producing features, documentaries and short films.
Kinosaurus Film has set its aim at filling screens with fresh and daring projects. Kinosaurus Film’s first feature film “The Days That Confused” premiered domestically in this spring and became a domestic box-office hit and in July won the Jury Special Prize from the East of the West competition program at the Karlovy Vary IFF.
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Santiago is a Latin-American chef living in Tallinn. He works in a Latin-American restaurant and he plans to open his own place someday. He is also the father of Roberta, who arrives unexpectedly to his work place. Mayri, Roberta’s mother is nowhere to be found so Santiago takes Roberta home with him for the day. But the next day Mayri doesn’t show up. She keeps making up excuses which forces Roberta and Santiago to chance the dynamics of their relationship. They will discover that so far they are used to having a fun relationship during the weekends and that maybe their difficulties lie beyond the language barrier. For both Santiago and Roberta this will mean a path to discover a new way to relate to others, a new way that goes beyond the different array of languages that they can use to speak to each other.
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Ornitorrinco
Estimated running time: 15-20 min. Estimated budget: 61 415 Eur Funding in place: –
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Contacts: Mail: lesmesdoc@gmail.com Phone: +372 5608 8641
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Carlos Eduardo Lesmes López (b. 1987) holds a BA in Film and Television from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a MA degree in Film Arts from Tallinn University. He’s been living and working in Tallinn for the past five years, developing different films and projects. He has made five short films and two documentaries. His last short film “Take off” (“Äralend”, Alasti Kino, 2015) is currently in different festivals around the world, including Fantasia fest in Canada. Carlos is currently developing his first feature film “Pretty Vacant”.
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Director Carlos Eduardo Lesmes López
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Producer Anni Aguraijuja Anni Aguraijuja (b. 1988) who holds a BA in Film Arts from the Baltic Film and Media School of the University of Tallinn, has worked in many national commercials as PA, carried out large-scale castings (“Secret Society of Souptown”, Nafta Films, 2015) and participated in international film projects. She has produced four student films and a short film “Third” (2013). Anni has worked in Nafta Films, also with Kinosaurus Film and Münchhausen. She is currently working in Amrion. Contacts: Mail: anniagur@gmail.com Phone: +372 56494612
Snow Shelter
Director: Robertas Nevecka Producer: Giedrė Burokaitė Production country: Lithuania Production company: Meno avilys Production company profile: NGO “Meno avilys” operates in audio-visual field in a targeted way since the beginning of its activities. The company has been acting in the area of film edu-
cation and heritage since 2005. In 2006 it initiated the first national film education project in Lithuania “Film at My School”. The NGO publishes film compilations on DVD which are accompanied by teaching guides. In 2009 “Meno avilys” became a member of international video education network “Viducate” and organised “European Video Education Forum 2009” in Vilnius. Since 2014 “Meno avilys” has become a member of the two European projects in the framework of Audience Development: A Framework for Film Education in Europe led by BFI (UK) and Moving Cinema led by A Bao A Qu (Spain). Since 2015 NGO “Meno avilys” started to work in film produc-
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Freezing winter in a war devastated nowadays Vilnius. Several years passed after destruction, the city slowly rebuilds. Thirty-year-old Kostas is living in an apartment with a group of strangers. One night he nearly burns the place down wanting to warm himself up. His roommates start hating him and Kostas tries to find another shelter, breach into a hostel constructed in church’s underground vault. He fails to find a bed though and nearly freezes to death in a blizzard. This makes him return to his original home where he throws the eldest resident Alexander to the street. And barricades himself in. The flat belongs to him, cause he found it first. The other residents fail to breach in. They crash the windows with rocks. And one of those rocks hits Kostas in the head. He starts hallucinating that he lives in a luxurious palace.
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Sniego pastogė
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tion field with an aim to promote Lithuanian film industry and to cooperate with young filmmakers. Estimated running time: 12 min. Estimated budget: 30 000 Eur
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Director Robertas Nevecka
Producer Giedrė Burokaitė
Robertas Nevecka was born in 1984. He lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a selftaught animator and has a BA degree in Film directing. His best known films are “The Bomb“ (2013), “The Curonian Twitch“ (2013), “The Jungle“ (2014). His newest short animated film “Snow Shelter“ is currently in development.
Giedrė Burokaitė was born in 1985, lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. She got a BA degree in Cultural History and Anthropology and a MA degree in Arts management. She produced number of short films: “Jackie“ (2014), “Investigation“ (2014), “Doggone“ (2015), “The Roots Are Bitter“ (2016) and currently is working on her first feature-length documentary “People, Animals and Things“ and a short animation “Snow Shelter“.
Contacts: Mail: robertas.nevecka@gmail.com Phone: +370 679 01982
Contacts: Mail: giedre@menoavilys.org Phone: +37067521161
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The Juggler
Producer: Agnė Adomėnė Production country: Lithuania Production company: Art Shot Production company profile: Founded in 2012, ART SHOT is an independent production company, focused on developing and producing short artistic animated films. The founder and producer of the company, Agnė Adomėnė aims to produce visually en-
Estimated running time: 10 min.
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gaging animations with the potential for international co-production and distribution. In 2016, the first completed production, a puppet animation film “Nuopuolis” (Directed by Urtė Oettinger and Johan Oettinger, Lithuanian - Denmark co-production) was awarded by Lithuanian Film Academy as The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of the year.
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Director: Skirmanta Jakaitė
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We live in the same house, but different apartments, jobs, situations, believes, visions, each one in its own compartment fooling ourselves, that the world is one and that it exists. Though sometimes it seems that an incomprehensible thread is almost caught and I am on a verge of understanding. This film is about the other side of life - the scary, unknown side we never fully grasp, but we know it is somewhere near, so close.
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Žonglierius
Estimated budget: 95 000 Eur Funding in place: 15 000 Eur
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Director Skirmanta Jakaitė
Producer Agnė Adomėnė
Skirmanta Jakaitė (b. 1969) is a director and animator with BA in Animation at Vilnius Academy of Art and experience in animation production since 1989. “The Juggler” will be her third directed short animated film. The previous films of the director were also made using the technique of 2D drawn animation. A graduation film of S. Jakaitė “We May Meet, We May Not” was screened at many acclaimed international film festivals including Ottawa International Animation Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Melbourne International Animation Festival. Her debut film “Non-euclidean Geometry” (co-directed with Solveiga Masteikaitė) was awarded with Ecumenical Jury Prize at 6oth Short Film Festival Oberhausen and received Special International Jury Prize at Hiroshima International Animation Festival as well as The Lithuanian Film Academy award for The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of the year.
A founder and producer of a production company ART SHOT, Agnė Adomėnė, has educational background in culture management (The Master of Management, Department of UNESCO Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, Vilnius Academy of Arts) and works in film business since 2009 with experience in film distribution and exhibition (Art house cinema theatre PASAKA). Founded in 2012, independent production company ART SHOT focuses on developing, producing and co-producing short artistic animated films. Since 2014 Agnė joined the team of European Film Forum SCANORAMA as a film industry event coordinator. In 2015 she became one of the founders and board members of Lithuanian Animation Association, that was established to unite animation related companies, to provide network, to create and promote an attractive image of Lithuanian animation.
Contacts: Mail: skirmanta@gmail.com Phone: +37068296568t
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Contacts: Mail: giedre@menoavilys.org Phone: +37067521161
When Lights Go Out
Producer: Gabija Siurbytė Production country: Lithuania Production company: Dansu films Production company profile: Dansu is a vigorous company, dedicated to produce high class feature films, TV and commercials. The company was created in 2008. Dansu films has created 6 short movies, some of them were sold to Eurochannel and Shorts.tv. In
2014 short film “The Queen of England stole my parents” was awarded as best short film at national academy awards “Silver Crane”. “Dansu Films” was also part of production of 3 awarded international feature films and made more than 100 commercials. As well as received “Best production house” award at National awards “Adrenalinas”.
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Director: Jonas Trukanas
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It’s the first day in a new private school for Mantas – a quiet, harmless teenage schoolboy with a mysterious past. After an unexpected encounter with two local bullies Mantas’ dark secret comes to light: every time he gets hurt, he inadvertently summons a murderous guardian demon. It time-teleports teenagers into the night, turns off the lights and attempts to kill the bullies, while Mantas desperately tries to protect them. Horrified and confused, they run for their lives as the demon hunts them in darkness. Teenagers shall live through the night only if they combine their efforts to defeat the demon.
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When Lights Go Out
Estimated running time: 15 min. Estimated budget: 40 000 Eur Funding in place: 5 000 Eur
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Director Jonas Trukanas
Producer Gabija Siurbytė
Jonas has graduated from Film Directing course in University For Creative Arts, Farnham, United Kingdom. Ever since graduation he has been directing short films and commercials. His first proper short film “Booksmuggler” (2011) won an Audience Choice Award in Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris”. His short horror comedy “Ghost I don’t Remember” (2015) has been screened in many festivals around the globe, most notably Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival. And his latest short – “The Trolleybus-Man” (2016) is currently hitting the festival circuit and has been nominated for Lithuanian Film and TV awards for the Best Production Design. Jonas biggest interest lies in geeky, fantastic genre cinema.
I was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. I am a member of the board of Lithuanian independent producers association and also a board member of Swedish chamber of commerce in Vilnius. I have studied management, law and acting. In 2001 I started working in the biggest events organising company “Pirmoji kava” and was responsible for events representing Lithuania (biggest event being EXPO in Aichi). In 2003 I got interested in films and started there as PA and worked up the ladders in the AD department. When Lithuanian film studio got closed, I together with director Ernestas Jankauskas opened our own company Dansu that is now one of the biggest production houses in Baltic States.
Contacts: Mail: : jonas@dansu.eu Phone: +370 6283466
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Contacts: Mail: gabija@dansu.eu Phone: +370 698 14141
Forum team & contacts
Gabrielė Cegialytė (LT) LITHUANIAN SHORTS Lithuanian Short Film Agency office@filmshorts.lt +370 628 35040 Viktorija Kasperoviča (LV)
SLEEPWALKERS International Short Film Festival siiri.haidma@poff.ee +372 55 596 346 Peter Murdmaa (EE) SHORTEST International Short Film Center peter@shortest.eu +372 5169259
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LITHUANIAN SHORTS Lithuanian Short Film Agency info@filmshorts.lt +370 673 16548
Siiri Häidma (EE)
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Rimantė Daugėlaitė-Cegelskienė (LT)
SLEEPWALKERS International Short Film Festival laurence.boyce@poff.ee +37256987199
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LITHUANIAN SHORTS Lithuanian Short Film Agency marija@filmshorts.lt +370 601 07802
Laurence Boyce (EE)
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Marija Razgutė (LT)
Riga International Film Festival, Short Riga victoria@rigaiff.lv +37129363786 Laima Graždanoviča (LV) Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS laima@2annas.lv +37129735366
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