BPF Catalog by Ieva Rojūtė

9-10 October, 2015 Vilnius, Lithuania More information www.filmshorts.lt/en/bpf-2015-2

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Introduction Agenda Trainers and panelists

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Lists of selected projects Night Of the Horse The Ball Valkyrie Gemini Birthday Kindness of a Stranger Winter in the Rainforest Bathhouse LaumÄ&#x2014; World of Beetroots

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Forum team and contacts Venue map

Now in its third year, the Baltic Pitching Forum is becoming an important fixture on the short film circuit. This is not only on the regional scene but also on the international circuit as the BPF is becoming ever more recognized as an important place in which to spot new talent emerging out of the Baltics. For the first time, the BPF has also accepted animation projections in recognition of the huge wealth of animation talent that exists in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As always we’ll be giving nine participants the opportunity to pitch their projects to a panel of industry experts as well as an audience of observers. This will provide valuable experience in the art of pitching as well as there being the opportunity for one participant to head to the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival to pitch at Euro Connections. In another first, another participant will be given the opportunity to head to the European Short Pitch in March 2016. Aside from training and exciting opportunities we are also glad to be able to continue to promote a spirit of cooperation and camaraderie between filmmakers and industry in the Baltic coun-tries and beyond. As the Baltic Pitching Forum continues to grow we’re excited that such a diverse range of people can meet in Vilnius to share ideas, projects and their dreams for the future. So we once again welcome you to the Baltic Pitching Forum and look forward to a challenging yet fruitful few days celebrating the talent that our three countries have to offer.

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Event venue: Radisson Blu Royal Astorija Hotel Didžioji str. 35/2, 01128 Vilnius

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break

8 OCTOBER Thursday

13.00 - 13.30 European Short Co-production Forum Euro Connection: Success Stories (Laurent Crouzeix, Euro Connection)

Arrivals 18.00 - 20.00 Welcoming dinner 20.00 (Optional) Vilnius International Short Film Festival: Special Fim Programme “Focus on John Smith and Deividas Narkevicius”

13.30 - 14.00 TV World. Short Film Acquisitions Sari Volanen, YLE TV

PUBLIC PART:

14.00 - 14.30 Creative Europe MEDIA – Tips for Emerging Producers Eva Brazdžionytė, Creative Europe Desk LT

9.30 - 10.00 Registration and morning coffee

ONLY FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH THE PROJECTS:

10.00 - 10.45 Pitching Training. Presenting Yourself and Your Project, Part I Gabriele Brunenmeyer

14.45 - 19.00 Group work (9 projects – each 25 min., + one break of 25 min.)

9 OCTOBER Friday

11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 - 12.00 Pitching Training. Presenting Yourself and Your Project, Part II Gabriele Brunenmeyer

19.00 Dinner

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10 OCTOBER Saturday Moderator: Laurence Boyce PUBLIC PART: 09.30 - 10.00 Registration and morning coffee 10.00 - 11.15 Pitching session I (5 projects)

Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (Germany) 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

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 - 12.30 Pitching session II (4 projects) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

2005 she is working for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film as a free lanced project and script advisor. Furthermore she is working as consultant for script development, packaging and project presentation for Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize and others. Since 2013 she is acting as the conference coordinator for the BLS Film Conference Incontri in Italy, South Tyrol.

ONLY FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH THE PROJECTS: 13.30 - 14.45 Debriefing & group work 14.45 - 15.15 Best pitch nomination 15.15 - 15.30 Coffee and Snacks Break Laurence Boyce (Estonia) 15.30 - 17.00 One-to-one Meetings 19.00 Vilnius International Short Film Festival: Closing Ceremony

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Organizer reserves the right of changing the programme. More information http://www.filmshorts.lt/en/bpf-2015-2

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, and the Leeds Interna-

tional Film Festival. 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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Alison Sterling (United Kingdom)

Laurent Crouzeix (France) Laurent Crouzeix is Co-Executive Director of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival & Market. He is Programmer of the International Competition and Project Manager on the shortfilmdepot.com online platform. Laurent is also 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.

Alison Sterling is a producer. Most recently she produced Flying Blind, a feature film starring Helen McCrory and directed by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and was released by Soda Pictures in the UK, by Alter Ego in Poland and has sold to numerous international territories. She currently has a slate of feature film projects in development, including: Faithfull (about the early life of Marianne Faithfull) co-producing with Julia Taylor-Stanley; Running for Beginners written by Robin Mukherjee

(Lore) and directed by Jill Robertson; a new comedy by Kefi Chadwick; and a horror film by Lucy Catherine. Alison began her working life as an actress and theatre producer. She moved into TV and film production in 1997. She made eight award-winning short films (supported by UKFC, Creative England, BBC Films, Film4) including Luke and the Void, Turning (which was BAFTA nominated in 2011) and Flytopia, all of which have screened at numerous film festivals and won international awards.

Nele Luise Fritzsche (Germany) Nele Luise Fritzsche is heading interforum as well as the International Script Lab and Script Pitch Competition of the International Short Film Festival interfilm Berlin since 2013. As co-curator of interfilm’s special programs, she is a member of the selection committee of in-

terfilm Festival since 2014. Since 2008 Nele has been engaged regularly in the international festival scene, also writing articles and moderating. Nele is based in Berlin and holds a BA in Music, Media and Scandinavian Studies.

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Priit Tender (Estonia) Priit Tender is an Estonian animator – the director, designer and writer of many short animated films. His author films are driven by surreal imagery, black humor and dark existential jour-

neys. Priit’s films have won prizes and nominations from the most important short and animation film festivals, including Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Dresden, Fredrikstad, Utrecht.

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Wim Vanacker (Belgium) Wim Vanacker was born in Izegem, Belgium. After studying psychology and filmstudies in Gent and Antwerpen, he moved to Dublin to work as a psychologist in the field of drug addiction. During this period he was employed as a film critic and a programmer for several filmfestivals. After which he moved to Paris and picked up studying again at EICAR, the International Film School of Paris where he made two shorts. Endgame, which got selected for 24 festivals and won 5 awards along the way, and The Naked leading the Blind, which got selected for 60 festivals thus far while winning 20 awards. After graduating, he discovered NISI MASA – European Network of Young Cinema

and started off working as the project coordinator of the MEDIA funded project, European Short Pitch to finally become the Head of the Script Department. On the side, he also works as a script consultant, tutor and guest speaker for festivals such as Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Encounters and Interfilm. Recently, he founded Sireal Films, a Brussels based production company where he produced the VAF funded short film empire by Kristof Hoornaert. As a Writer / Director, he’s currently developing two short films, First Aid and [ˈsɪə.ri.əl], both produced by the Paris based production company In Vivo Films.

Wouter Jansen (Netherlands) Wouter Jansen is the head of programming at Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (NL) since 2009. He has a master’s degree in Cultural policy and patronage. Three years ago he started a festival distribution company called Some Shorts which special-

izes in visually powerful and daring short films and documentaries, mainly from the Netherlands. The films have received over 250 selections, more than 70 awards and were selected at festivals such as SXSW, Berlinale, Locarno, IDFA, San Sebastian and Visions du Réel.

Sari Volanen (Finland) 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 film makers and produc-

ers. 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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English title

Original title

Production country

Director

Producer

Latvia

Night Of The Horse

Latvia

Adriana Roze

Thom Palmen

The Ball

Latvia, Ukraine

Vera Yakovenko

Ludmila Kirilenko, Thom Palmen

Valkyrie Gemini

Latvia

Kārlis Strautiņš

Haralds Ozols

Estonia

Birthday

Sünnipäev

Estonia

Tanno Mee

Marianne Ostrat

The Kindness Of A Stranger

Estonia

Epp Kubu

Gabriel Dettre, Kertu Viira

Winter In The Rainforest

Talv vihmametsas

Estonia

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Kerdi Oengo

Lithuania

Bathhouse

Pirtis

Lithuania

Laurynas Bareiša

Klementina Remeikaite

Laumė

Lithuania

Ignas Veršinskas

Eglė Burbaitė

The World Of Beetroots

Burokevičius

Lithuania, Estonia

Augustas Liiv

Lukas Trimonis

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Night Of The Horse

Anna (9) is eager to go sledging with her father, an artist and alcoholic. They meet and walk through a dark city. Passing by an artist shop her father decides to buy some paints but the shop is closed. Furious he grabs the sledge and throws it through the shop window, then sinks to the ground. Anna manages to lift the sledge out of the broken window and to put her father back on his feet before the police arrive. Later, Anna waits outside a bar. An intoxicated couple comes by and gets into an argument with her father exiting the bar. He reaches a beer bottle to Anna but his opponent pulls his knife on him. Anna hits the bottle over her fathers’ head. The couple run off; Anna is left alone with her mumbling father. Anna valiantly gets her father onto the sledge and pulls him from the scene. Director Adriana Roze

Estimated budget (in euros) 25.000

Producer Thom Palmen

Production company profile Persona Films is a Latvian based productions company.

Production country Latvia Production company Persona Films

Director Adriana Roze (Latvia)

Producer Thom Palmen (Latvia)

Adriana Roze is a film director and new media artist from Riga, Latvia. She recognised her passion for arts and cinema at an early age when her mother was working as a graphic designer for several film theatres in Riga. Even though her early formal training includes dance, music, theater and acting, at the university her major was philosophy and politics. The symbiosis of arts and philosophy is a recurrent form of expression in her documentaries and installations. In 2015 her musical documentary “Born in Riga. Behind the Talent” was nominated for the Latvian National Film Awards “Lielais Kristaps”. Night of the Horse will be her fiction debut.

Thom Palmen is one of the founders of the Umeå International Film Festival in Sweden. (1986-2007) “We started the festival because of the frustration that so many good films never reached any distribution in the cinemas.” He has been invited as a jury member to numerous film Festivals, notably in Berlin, Sofia, Regensburg, Dresden, Cottbus, Aix-en-Provence, Indie-Lisboa, Poznan, Bratislava, Hamburg, Setubal, Cork, Kinochock (Anapa), Tampere and Puchon (Korea), FESPACO (Burkina Faso). In order to help talented young filmmakers from the North of Sweden he started his own distribution company: Botnia Film. Currently he’s working as a curator for a number of festivals and parallell to that as a producer and developing projects within the field of the cinema. His first co-production, In the Theme (director Olga Popova, Russia) was selected and awarded at the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) Shorts 2008.

Contacts Thom Palmen, producer Thompalmen104@gmail.com

Estimated running time 8 min.

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The Ball

After the tragic loss of their son in the Boeing air crash over Eastern Ukraine in July 2014, Lucas spends all day long in her son’s room never going out. Her husband Jos, in an off guard moment, collects all their son’s belongings and donates them to a humanitarian organisation helping Ukrainian children. Jos is asked to join a delegation to deliver the humanitarian aid to the Ukraine. Well in place at the orphanage Jos meets a boy resembling his dead son. Jos can’t take his eyes off the boy and joins him playing football in the yard. With every minute that follows Jos gets more attached to the boy. While nobody is looking Jos takes the boy, OK with this, and they drive away. Director Vera Yakovenko

Estimated budget (in euros) 40.000

Producers Ludmila Kirilenko Thom Palmen

Production company profile Mariposa Films – a Kiev based production house producing features, shorts, documentaries and comedies. Persona Films is a Latvian based productions company.

Production countries Latvia, Ukraine Production companies Persona Films (Latvia), Mariposa Films (Ukraine) Estimated running time 15 min.

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Producer contacts Ludmila Kirilenko, Ukraine Ludmila.kirilenko@gmail.com Thom Palmen, Latvia Thompalmen104@gmail.com

Director Vera Yakovenko (Ukraine)

Producer Ludmila Kirilenko (Ukraine)

Vera Yakovenko was born in Lviv, she started her professional activity as storywriter published regularly in Lviv’s University “Almanax” contemporary literature edition. Followed by MA film-directing education in Kiev State Theatrical University she wrote and directed a number of award-winning shorts. She gained professional experience in sreen-writing in Binger Film Lab (Netherlands), directing and producing in “Directors Across Borders” (Armenia) and “Young Professionals” program (Germany). Her postgraduate project “Blonde dies twice” won production award during Berlinale 2004 and was nominated to “Movie of a week Award”. Vera continued working as a director on TV episodes and documentaries in Ukraine and won Diploma for the best cast by Kyiv IFF 2009 for TV feature “Contract” and “Best Film Project Award” for “Outsider film project” at Odessa IFF 2012. She became an active member of Ukrainian indi filmmakers creating her short “Taxi?” for “Mudaki” short film edition. After completing social documentary for MTV-EXIT “Trading lives” in 2013 Vera’s creative focus are social subjects and human rights rights defense. In 2014 Vera together with producer Ludmila Kyrylenko formed a company Mariposa Films (Ukraine) that produces short films, social shorts and documentaries.

Ludmila Kirilenko was born in Kiev, Ukraine, she started her professional career as a lawyer and criminalist followed by German translation specialization. She worked as a coordinator in commission on questions of granting humanitarian assistance to Ukraine (2001-2003) and Head of advertising department: «Telemedia» Company (2004-2007). Further she gained her experience in media sphere working for media agencies, production companies as well as Ukrainian, German and Holland TV channels as creative and line producer, screen-writer and 1AD. In 2014 Ludmila together with director Vera Yakovenko formed a company Mariposa Films (Ukraine) that produces short films, social shorts and documentaries. Currently Ludmila is creatively focused on social documentaries, shorts and features with social subjects and human rights thematic.

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Valkyrie Gemini

Ruth is finding herself strangely attracted to her twin sister Rita, upon psychotherapist’s suggestion she decides to spend some time away from her. As the separation goes on, she starts feeling a troubling urge to return to her sister and restore their bond. Turns out Rita has already moved on. Director Kārlis Strautiņš Producer Haralds Ozols Production country Latvia Production company Karlails productions Estimated running time 15 min.

Production company profile “Karlails productions” have been active since 2012. It has produced some online talks-shows, music videos and several short films, some of which have already established international recognition. Contacts Kārlis Strautiņš, director karlis.strautins@gmail.com

Director Kārlis Strautiņš (Latvia)

Producer Haralds Ozols (Latvia)

Karlis Strautins is a graduate of Commercial Media Directing specialty in the bachelor programme at RISEBA. He also enjoys when people read about him in booklets, especially when he’s pretending that he hasn’t written it about himself. He aspires to become famous and rich by whatever means necessary, but for now he is giving short film directing a go. Karlis is a self-proclaimed cinephile and spends most of his time watching movies. Sometimes they’re not even his own movies.

Haralds Ozols has graduated Audio Visual Media Arts bachelor programme at RISEBA University. As an audio visual artist he has directed, acted, edited, shot and audio mixed different short films and TV shows. Now the time has come to produce his first short film so he can brag about himself even more. His dream is to reboot TV series “The Pretender” and cast himself as the main character, who can do any job in the world, just so he can call himself a method actor. Haralds is also a very passionate movie lover and tends to get angry with people who fall asleep or walk away halfway through the movie. “How do you know who to blame for a bad movie, if you don’t see the ending titles?” – Haralds Ozols 2015

Estimated budget (in euros) 7500

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Sünnipäev

Middle-aged Helen, who still hasn’t gotten over the end of her marriage, is dragged to the night club by her girlfriends on the evening of her birthday. Unable to grant the life a new chance, she ends the night as an intruder in her old home. Director Tanno Mee Producer Marianne Ostrat Production country Estonia Production company Alexandra Film (Reg name: OÜ Alexandra LRV) Estimated running time 15 min. Estimated budget (in euros) 70.000 Production company profile Alexandra Film was established by film producer Marianne Ostrat in 2007 to facilitate independent film projects related to her studies at the Baltic Film and Media

School. Alexandra Film is focused on producing short, feature and documentary films with compelling and human stories, that aim to touch, shake and inspire the audiences around the world. Alexandra Film’s most successful film to date has been a medium-length drama “Strays” (dir: Sutharsan Bala, 2009). In addition to the short film “Birthday”, Alexandra Film is currently in pre-production with a feature length microbudget existential comedy “The End of The Chain” (dir: Priit Pääsuke), financing a period psychological drama “30 Days With Isebel” (dir: Tanno Mee) and developing a contemporary drama “GrownUps” (dir: tba).

Contacts Marianne Ostrat, producer marianne@alexandrafilm.e

Director Tanno Mee (Estonia)

Producer Marianne Ostrat (Estonia)

Tanno Mee graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School in 2008 with a BA degree in film and video directing. During his studies at BFM Tanno directed three short fiction films: “Infernal Suspicions” (12 minutes, 2006), “Blind Dsin-Lu” (14 minutes, 2007), “House of Memories” (35 minutes, 2008) and developed a close collaboration with his fellow student, cinematographer Mart Raun. In 2010 Tanno premiered a short documentary “Being Normal” (28’), commissioned by Estonian Public Broadcasting, shot by Mart Raun and produced by Marianne Ostrat from Alexandra Film. In 2014, another documentary - “Allan Leida, Leida Allan” co-directed with Liis Nimik - premiered in the Estonian Public Broadcasting channels ETV and ETV2. With an interest in sensitive, nuanced drama, Tanno has been developing his first full length feature film - “30 Days With Isebel” (currently in financing phase) - with his collaborators Mart Raun and Marianne Ostrat since late 2010 and a short fiction “Birthday” since the beginning of 2015.

Marianne Ostrat has been working in film production since 2004 filling the position of production manager or producer on numerous short film, commercial, TV-feature and documentary shootings. In 2006 she graduated with a BA degree in Audiovisual Media from the Tallinn University and in 2009 with a MA degree in Film Arts with specialization in producing from Baltic Film and Media School. In 2008 Marianne won the Cottbus Film Festival GWFF Promotion Prize awarded to a promising producing student from the Baltics. After graduation she produced two documentary films now working on Tanno Mee’s short fiction “Birthday” and three feature films - microbudget existential comedy “The End of The Chain” (dir: Priit Pääsuke, in pre-production), “30 Days With Isebel” (dir: Tanno Mee, in financing) and a youth film “GrownUp” (dir: tbc, in development). Marianne is also the founder, partner and creative producer of Fork Film Animation Studio established in 2010, member of Estonian National Producer’s Union, EAVE and MAIA networks.

Funding in place 2535 EUR (own investment)

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The Kindness Of A Stranger

THE KINDNESS OF A STRANGER tells a story of two strangers, a young Estonian mother, INGA and Russian taxi driver ALEKSANDR making a life-changing journey on a spring day of the violent riots of the Russian communities on the streets of Tallinn. They experience the rare moment when enemies save each other‘s lives and become friends. Arriving home with a newborn child, INGA finds her Estonian husband in bed with another woman. The betrayal turns her life upside down and pushes her to the brink of suicide. At the last moment fate brings an older man, in her way the Russian alcoholic ALEKSANDR who’s just been thrown out of his home on account of being violent. The two drive through the riotous city and reach a cliff on the seashore. Suddenly, INGA makes a decision, gets out and disappears. ALEKSANDR gets panicky and decides to keep the BABY. But, by the time he really makes piece with the life changing decision INGA reappears. The ensuing fight brings them close to each other. They share their tragic life stories with each other and soon recognize, that the spark of love they discovered turned them from enemies into friends. Director Epp Kubu

Production company –

Producer Gabriel Dettre, Kertu Viira

Estimated running time 30 min.

Production country Estonia

Estimated budget (in euros) 50.000

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Contacts Gabriel Dettre, producer gabrieldettre@gmail.com

Director Epp Kubu (Estonia)

Producer Gabriel Dettre (Hungary, Germany, Estonia)

Epp Kubu is an Estonian artist. She has diploma from Estonian Academy of Arts in scenography BA and interdisciplinary arts MA. She studied a year 2004-2005 scenography in Latvian Academy of Arts. While being active in Estonian contemporary art scene since 2006 she has created set designs for more than 15 theatre, dance performances and short films and has participated in several exhibitions in Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, LIthuania, Czech, Germany, Austria. She is a an founding member of an collective of performing artists “Ten times ten meters” and Association of Estonian Scenographers. In 2013 she made her long-standing dream come true and started film studies in Baltic Media and Film School. Since then she has completed one short fiction film as a director and two short documentaries as director and cinematographer.

Gabriel Dettre, director/writer/producer, lived in New York City for many years, before moving back to his native Budapest. Presently, he is a visiting faculty member at BFM Tallinn (Baltic Film and Media University), teaching film directing. Gabriel Dettre produced CHICO (Hungarian-German-Croatian-Chilean). The film won a Best Film Award in Karlovy Vary.In 2015, Gabriel Dettre co-produced ZERO, Gyvula Nemes’ German-Czech-Hungrian co-production feature. ZERO is in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Producer Kertu Viira (Estonia) Kertu Viira is a producer from Tallinn, Estonia. Having worked for different film and performing arts festivals in Tallinn and Helsinki she took up producing after graduating with a degree in culture theory leading her to work on many small-production independent films in the Baltic region. She is currently studying at Baltic Film and Media school and working on her first documentary.

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Talv Vihmametsas

In a hidden corner of the world there is a place where all impossible dreams come true. In a rainforest amidst lush nature fragile porcelain animals can be found. Strange white stony creatures are born in wild river streams, birds with feet like human fingers hunt for flying fish, vicious spiders catch miniature dancers into their traps... This is a surreal world inhabited by creatures never seen before. Time here passes in a strange way moving in an unexpected paste. As the film is shot in nature the changes of light create a strange shift between the passing of time and the movement of the characters. Tropical nature, ceramic creatures, Estonian music and sounds of northern nature form a surreal world with bizarre sensation of seeing something unknown but familiar at the same time. Director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Producers Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Kerdi Oengo Production county Estiona Production company Nukufilm Studio Estimated running time 5 min. Estimated budget (in euros) 50.000

Production company profile Nukufilm deals with all kinds of puppet animation (stop-motion) techniques: puppet and cut-out animation, modelling, pixillation and computer animation. Some animation techniques worked out by our film team do not even have a name yet. Currently there are 25 people working for studio Nukufilm, most of whom are qualified directors, artists, puppet makers, decoration artists, lighting technician, animators, operators and their assistants, montage technicians and sound editors.

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We hire other professionals depending on the extent and complicity of projects. Funding in place 4000 EUR Contacts Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, director anulaura@gmail.com

Director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (Estonia)

Producer Kerdi Oengo (Estonia)

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated MA degree in animation at Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013. She made her first animation Fly Mill (Kärbeste veski) a puppet film as her graduation film. Fly Mill has screened in numerous festivals around the world and won nearly 20 prizes. Her first film after graduation, a short animated film On The Other Side Of The Woods (Teisel pool metsa) premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival and has won three First Prizes and a Best Debut prize at festivals so far. She has made set designs for short stop motion animations such as The Lemonade Tale (Limonaadi lugu, 2013) and a puppet film Tik-Tak (2014) in Nukufilm studio in Estonia and It’s About Time (2014) in Atomart studio in Latvia. Currently she is working on a set design for a feature puppet film Morten on the Ship of Fools (Morten lollide laeval) in Nukufilm Studio.

Kerdi Oengo has a background in live-action feature films through the years 1986-1993 after having graduated from Moscow Film institute in 1986; built up a private TV channel Kanal 2 in Estonia during the years 1993-2002. Producer at Nukufilm studios from 2003, has made alltogether more than 20 short films as a producrion manager and a producer. Has also participated in producting a feature length world first stereoscopic animated rock-opera “Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A rapid love story” (directed by Mait Laas) that reached the screens in 2013. This year was a lucky one for the last short produced “The Master” (direced by Riho UNt) that was awarded Jury prize in Annecy International film fesival. Besides some shorts there is currently in production a feature length animation “Morten on the Ship of Fools” (directed by Kaspar Jancis) in cooproduction with Ireland and Belgium.

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Pirtis

A group of school kids gather in a bathhouse to have a party, during witch they drink alcohol and start discussing modern day politics. Ukraine crisis in particulary. They choose one kid with a Russian name to bully and accuse him of being a “Putin lover”. During the whole night things happening around them get overshadowed by this bogus discussion. Morning comes and everybody leaves, with no resolution to their political debate”. Bathhouse owners come and start tidying the place up only to fing an unconscious half-naked girl in the sauna. What happened to this girl? How did everyone miss her? Was there someone else in the party, whom nobody noticed? Director Laurynas Bareiša Producer Klementina Remeikaitė Production country Lithuania Production company Afterschool (MB “Po mokyklos”) Estimated running time 15 min.

Production company profile As the name suggests “Afterschool“ was formed by a group of film school graduates. Its members have created a number of short films, which were screened in international festivals and nominated for a national awards.

Director Laurynas Bareiša (Lithuania)

Producer Klementina Remeikaitė (Lithuania)

Laurynas Bareiša holds a bachelor’s degree in both applied mathematics from Vilnius University and in cinematography from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Currently he is continuing studies in Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre for a master’s degree in film directing.

Klementina Remeikaite is a young film producer from Lithuania. This year she graduated Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, film producing. In 2014 director Marija Kavtaradze, director/cinematographer Laurynas Bareisa and she founded film production company Afterschool. Together they made 5 short films, the last one „I‘m twenty something“ (dir. Marija Kavtaradze) won a national film award „Silver crane‘s egg 2015“ for the best student work. Now director Laurynas Bareisa is developing his second short film „Bathhouse“. Also their new project, first feature film „Leaving Vilnius“, was selected for scriptwriting workshops „EKRAN+ 2015“ and „Maia workshops“ for emerging European producers.

Contacts Klementina Remeikaite, producer k.remeikaite@gmail.com

Estimated budget (in euros) 45.000

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Laumė

TADAS, while waiting for his wife GINTARĖ to return, is visited by a beautiful STRANGER who kisses him and disappears into the woods. The next evening the stranger returns. Tadas’ daughter SAULĖ believing that the stranger is Laumė - a mythical creature from her books, decides to talk to her. The next day Gintarė leaves in anger due to Saulė’s mentioned stranger. Tadas spends the rest of the day with whiskey and cigarettes till the stranger returns. They both end up in bed, however Saulė observes them through the door. Gintarė returns and learns about Tadas’ infidelity meanwhile unnoticed Saulė follows the stranger into the woods. After intense arguing Gintarė accepts that the fall out is her fault as well. They decide to make up. Saulė’s hand slips out of the stranger’s palm and the girl returns home. The stranger disappears into the lake from where she might have come. Director Ignas Veršinskas

Estimated budget (in euros) 19.000

Producer Egle Burbaitė

Production company profile The production company „TV ir kino projektai“ (Cloud Production) was established in 2013 with goals to work with young filmmakers and popularize Lithuanian cinema. To achieve these goals, company created TV shows about cinema “KINFO” and “Cinema Guide” for Lithuanian National Television and

Production countries Lithuania Production company TV ir kino projektai (Cloud Production) Estimated running time 25 min.

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produced several short films. From 2014 July company became a member of Lithuanian cinema industry alliance “Vilnius Film Cluster”.

Director Ignas Veršinskas (Lithuania)

Producer Eglė Burbaitė (Lithuania)

Ignas Veršinskas is a director/actor born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1986. After his business studies he went to Malaysia to study filmmaking in the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology. In Malaysia he mostly worked as an actor in multiple international projects as well as a director for several short films. He is a traveler, photographer and a musician on the side. His passion is fiction films exploring the unknown and the mysterious. Genres of his choice are adventure, mystery and sci-fi as they all deal with challenges that are not as often experienced in an everyday life. Project “Laumė” is a return to origins, back to Lithuanian land and its myths.

Eglė Burbaitė is a TV and cinema producer born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1987. After her history studies she is now doing her MA in heritage in Vilnius University. Her passion for history, heritage and cinema always went together. Now she is actively working in the field of cinema communication. She is one of the co-founders of a cinema nws website kinfo. lt, author of many publications and photo series about Lithuanian cinema, a journalist and a producer of cultural TV shows. Involvement in cinema productions led her to pursue a producer’s career focusing mainly on documentary films. Her last short film “Fellow Travellers” (Lithuania, 2015, director Linas Mikuta) received the award for the best student film in the International Vilnius Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris’15”. The project “Laumė“ intrigues Eglė due to a yet not discovered mystery genre and elements of Baltic mythology.

Contacts Eglė Burbaitė, producer egle.burbaite@gmail.com

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Burokevičius

An aspiring cook Rimas is obsessed with carving beetroots into big cubes. He dreams of becoming the best cook in town. Unfortunately, no-one likes his work, so he has to find a way how to scale down his ambitions and accept that not everyone is cut out for fame. Director Augustas Liiv Producer Lukas Trimonis Production countries Lithuania, Estonia Production company iN SCRiPT (Lithuania) Estimated running time 15 min. Estimated budget (in euros) 100.000 EUR Production company profile iN SCRiPT is a production company that provides screenwriting and production services to fiction, TV, documentary, animation, advertising and game development companies. Since 2013 iN SCRiPT has provided these services to numerous

clients and projects including: concepts for feature films and TV series, script editing for feature and short films, scripts for TV shows, educational documentaries and advertising, corporate and short film production, documentary production coordination, feature film development, representation and funding, organisation of intense screenwriting workshops and on-line screenplay competition for short films “TOO SHORT TO DIE”.

Director Augustas Liiv (Estonia)

Producer Lukas Trimonis (Lithuania)

Agustas Liiv is an award winning filmmaker. His most recent short film, “Bibendum”, was produced as a UK/Estonian co-production and was a winner in the short film category at an Italian film festival and was later distributed to the France2 TV channel. He graduated from London Film School and has experience in screenplay development and video editing. After graduation he worked for companies like Poker Starts Television, Sony TV and Content Film.

Lukas Trimonis graduated the Baltic Film and Media School in Estonia and the European Film College in Denmark. Developed theoretical production skills at Maia Workshops in Italy and received the European Certificate in Audiovisual Financing and Commercialization from the French National Audiovisual Institute. In 2011 he graduated from National Film and Television School in the UK. His experience ranges from producing numerous commercial projects including music videos, short films, commercials, viral videos to working within feature and documentary film production, co-production, financing and distribution. Currently producing his first feature film MIRACLE as lead producer, to be directed by Egle Vertelyte, and works as a producer in IN SCRIPT (Lithuania).

Contacts Lukas Trimonis, producer lukas@inscript.lt

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Rimantė Daugėlaitė-Cegelskienė (LT) Lithuanian Shorts Film Agency and VISFF +37067316548 info@filmshorts.lt

Raminta Spėčiūtė (LT) Lithuanian Shorts Film Agency and VISFF +37065855155 raminta@filmshorts.lt

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Inita Jansone (LV) Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS inita@2annas.lv Victoria Kasperovich (LV) International Film Festival Short Riga +37129363786 victoria.kasperovich@gmail.com

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Laurence Boyce (EE) SLEEPWALKERS Short Film Festival, Cineuropa.org +37256987199 laurence.boyce@gmail.com Peter Murdmaa (EE) SHORTEST International Short Film Center +372 5169259 peter@tlu.ee Lithuanian Short Film Agency LITHUANIAN SHORTS Šiltadaržio str. 6, LT 01124 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: info@filmshorts.lt Phone: +3706 731 6548 www.filmshorts.lt www.lithuanianshorts.com

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Vilnius International Short Film Festival screenings

1 Radisson Blu Royal Astorija Hotel Didžioji g. 35/2, 01128 Vilnius

3 Skalvija A. Goštauto g. 2/15, 01104 Vilnius

2 Europa Royale Vilnius

4 Pasaka Šv. Ignoto g. 4, Vilnius 01144

Aušros Vartų g. 6, 01129 Vilnius

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Closing Ceremony of Vilnius International Short Film Festival 5 Arts Printing House Šiltadaržio g. 6, 01124 Vilnius

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