PROGRAMME - 21ST - 22ND OCTOBER, 2016, CAFE FILM NOIR, 61 ELIZABETES STREET
FRIDAY, 21ST OCTOBER
SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER
From 09:30
REGISTRATION
From 09:30 REGISTRATION
10:10 – 12:00
PRESENTATION SESSIONS: FILMS FROM LATVIA.
DOCUMENTARIES
10:00 – 11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: Ensuring a wider variety of European films
available to children and family audiences. Most efficient tools
and platforms
13:00 – 14:20
PRESENTATION SESSIONS: FILMS FROM LATVIA. FICTION FILMS
14:40 – 16:00
ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
16:00 – 18:00
WORKSHOP: How to build an audience for European films in
the digital era
12:00 – 14:00
PRESENTATION SESSIONS: INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM
PROJECTS
15:00 – 17:00
ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
PRESENTATIONS MODERATOR
PRESENTATIONS MODERATOR
TRISTAN PRIIMÄGI
Journalist, EE
KRISTĪNE SIMSONE
Film journalist, Riga IFF programme curator, LV
PROGRAMME - FRIDAY, 21ST OCTOBER, 2016, CAFE FILM NOIR, 61 ELIZABETES STREET
09:30 – 10:10 Registration, coffee and allocution
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
10:10 – 12:00 Films from Latvia. Documentaries.
Moderated by Tristan Priimägi, EE
13:00 – 14:20 Films from Latvia. Fiction films.
Moderated by Tristan Priimägi, EE
10:10 – 10:20 EIGHT STARS
Head of the studio, producer Bruno Aščuks
13:00 – 13:10 1906
Director Gatis Šmits, producer Augustas Katilius,
assistant producer Marta Elīna Martinsone
10:20 – 10:30 HIGHER THAN MORPHINE
Director Dāvis Kaņepe, producer Agnese Freimane,
director of photography Aigars Sērmukšs
13:10 – 13:20 FIRSTBORN
Producer Roberts Vinovskis, director Aik Karapetian
10:30 – 10:40 FINDING TISE
Producer, director Dzintra Geka, assistant director Lauris
Kļaviņš
13:20 – 13:30 HOMO NOVUS
Producer, partner Jānis Kalējs, producer, partner Ivo
Ceplevičs
10:40 – 10:50 LIBERATION DAY
Producer Uldis Cekulis, director Uģis Olte
13:30 – 13:40 OLEG
Director Juris Kursietis, producer Aija Bērziņa
10:50 – 11:00 KNUTIFICATION
Producer Guna Stahovska, director Ivars Tontegode
13:40 – 13:50 THE BOY AND THE DOG
Producer Gints Grūbe, director Dāvis Sīmanis,
producer Antra Gaile
11:00 – 11:10 TO BE CONTINUED: THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD
Producer Antra Gaile, director Ivars Seleckis
11:10 – 11:20 PAVLENSKY. LIFE NAKED
Producer Guntis Trekteris
11:20 – 11:30 PEOPLE FROM NOWHERE
Producer Antra Gaile, director Gints Grūbe, director Jaak
Kilmi
11:30 – 11:40 THE LAST PAGANS OF EUROPE
Producer Kristele Pudāne, director Raitis Ābele, producer
Thom Palmen
11:40 – 11:50 THE SMUGGLER
Producer Marta Bite, director Ivars Zviedris, assistant
DOP Haralds Ozols
13:50 – 14:00 THE RING OF KINGS
Producer Andrejs Ēķis, director Aigars Grauba,
executive producer Kristians Alhimionoks
14:00 – 14:10 WHAT NOBODY CAN SEE
Producer Guntis Trekteris, director Staņislavs
Tokalovs
14:20 – 14:40 Coffee break
14:40 – 16:00 One-on-one meetings
16:00 – 18:00 WORKSHOP: Michael Gubbins, UK.
How to build an audience for European films in
the digital era
PROGRAMME - SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 2016, CAFE FILM NOIR, 61 ELIZABETES STREET
09:30 – 10:00 Registration, coffee and allocution
10:00 – 11:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Ensuring a wider variety of
European films available to children and family
audiences. Most efficient tools and platforms
Felix Vanginderhuysen (general secretary of ECFA),
BE, Füsun Eriksen
(CEO, owner of ARTOPIA, representative of board of
DCI), DK, Inesa Ivanova (CEO, cofounder of Kinomind Films), LT/UK
Moderated by Anna Rozenvalde (content
acquisitions at LMT Straume), LV
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 14:00 International children’s film projects.
Moderated by Kristīne Simsone, LV
12:00 – 12:15 PARADISE ‘89
Director Madara Dišelere, producer Aija Bērziņa, LV
12:15 – 12:30 MOONWOLVES
Co-director Oskar Gullstrand, SE
12:30 – 12:45 LOS BANDO IMMORTALE
Director Christian Lo, NO
12:45 – 13:00 BENTE AND THE MUTANT SCOUTS
Director Tor Fruergaard, DK
13:00 – 13:15 BILLE
Producer Jānis Juhņēvičs, scriptwriter Arvis Kolmanis,
scriptwriter, producers assistant Evita Sniedze, LV
13:15 – 13:30 HAPPY GO HOPSCOTCH
Co-founder, CEO, producer Inesa Ivanova,
co-founder, CEO, head of distribution Gabija
Budreckyte, UK/LT
13:30 – 13:45 MORTEN ON THE SHIP OF FOOLS
Producer Kerdi Oengo, EE
13:45 – 14:00 JACOB, MIMMI AND THE TALKING DOGS
Assistant director Anete Melece, LV
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 – 17:00 One-on-one meetings
WORKSHOP AND PANEL DISCUSSION
FRIDAY, 21ST OCTOBER, 2016
16:00 – 18:00
SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 2016
10:00 – 11:30
Riga IFF FORUM WORKSHOP: Michael
Gubbins. How to Build Audience for
European Films in the Digital Era
Riga IFF PANEL DISCUSSION: Ensuring a
wider variety of European films available to
children and family audiences. Most efficient
tools and platforms
Audience behavior in the oversupplied
on-demand market of today, how film
professionals can find audiences for their
films making use of social networks and
chances supplied by internet and
social networks, how to be creative in
marketing activities.
Current situation in children’s cinema, aiming
to better understand the target audience in an
era of smart technology and other channels of
audio-visual entertainment.
MODERATOR
PANELISTS
FELIX VANGINDERHUYSEN, BE
General secretary of European Children’s
Films Association
LECTURER
MICHAEL GUBBINS, UK
Michael Gubbins is an experienced
journalist, analyst and consultant, working
in film, entertainment and media industries,
with a particular expertise in on-demand
and digital change. He chairs the Film
Agency for Wales, and has worked as editor
at Screen International and Music Week. His
work in film related industries and handson experience of both traditional industry
processes and digital innovation gives
Gubbins a rare overview of the media value
chain.
ANNA ROZENVALDE, LV
Content Acquisitions, LMT Straume
FÜSUN ERIKSEN, DK
Owner, CEO of ARTOPIA, representative of
board at Danish Cultural Institute
INESA IVANOVA, LT/UK
Co-founder, CEO of Kinomind Films
FILMS FROM LATVIA. DOCUMENTARIES
EIGHT STARS
GENRE: historical documentary
LOGLINE: A story about the ordinary
people who were challenged by the Big Era.
It didn’t ask the permission to determine
the boundaries of their life (1914 – 1920).
LENGTH: 100’
COMING: November 2017
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANIES: Studio Centrums, Terra
Europa
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Askolds Saulītis
PRODUCER: Bruno Aščuks
SYNOPSIS: Film about the bright and
tragic period of Latvia in the beginning
of the 20th century when the nation’s
energy created it’s heroes and martyrs –
the Latvian riflemen. “During the WWI the
riflemen heroically fight against German
army, later guarded the Communist leader,
Lenin in Moscow. Though in the past
100 years there have been contradicting
opinions about the riflemen, they had
participated in countless battles, and that
way personalized Latvian soldier’s heroism.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Askolds Saulītis
has directed more than 40 films, mostly
documentaries. A number of them are
international co-productions and have
received national and international awards.
He has participated in many international
film festivals – IDFA Reflecting Images, has
been nominated for Russian Film Academy
NIKA Award for the Best Film. Date of birth
5/6/1966, education - Baltic Media Centre
(BMC), international film co-production
courses in Denmark, Latvian Academy
of Culture BA in Fine Arts, speciality TV
director.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Studio Centrums
was founded in 2004 in Riga, mainly as
a film production company. However,
the studio has also been active in film
distribution and other projects (computer
game, virtual museum, educational films
and commercials). Head of the Studio
Centrums is Bruno Aščuks.
REPRESENTATIVE: Head of the studio,
producer Bruno Aščuks
LOOKING FOR: cinema distribution, TV
broadcast
HIGHER THAN MORPHINE
SYNOPSIS: For 5 months well known latvian
hiphop artist Ansis and italian performer
Alberto conducted a workshop for youth
in an underaged prison in order to make a
musical theatre performance. The process
itself allowed the boys to open their most
hidden scars and realities that otherwise
would have been kept deep underground.
Whilst the music is measured in decibels,
one of the characters describes the
experience in prison as being the ultimate
level after cocaine and morphine.
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: Rhyming through the bars of
freedom.
LENGTH: 88’
COMING: 2017
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Kanepes Kulturas Centrs
WEB: www.kanepes.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Dāvis Kaņepe
PRODUCER: Agnese Freimane
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Dāvis Kaņepe
is a well-known culture activist and film
director, who is currently working on
his first full length documentary movie
Higher Than Morphine. Dāvis has directed
5 short films, one of which (L’Audizione)
was nominated for a best debut award
by the Latvian film festival Lielais Kristaps
and has won Rai Cinema special prize in
Maremetraggio short film festival as the
most current italian short of 2012.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Dāvis Kaņepe
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Agnese
Freimane
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Kanepes Kulturas
Centrs is a non-governmental organisation
and a non-profit cultural platform that
stands for civil society and human rights.
It organises interdisciplinary art and music
projects, it has a concert hall and art-house
cinema. This is the company’s debut in film
production.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director of Photography
Aigars Sērmukšs
LOOKING FOR: editing director, coproduction, distribution
FINDING TISE
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: The story of the globally
famous cameraman Eduards Tise from
Liepāja and the principles of his art, as
confronted against the ideas of nowaday
cinematographers about the interaction
between cameramen and directors when
films are being produced.
LENGTH: 52’
COMING: April 2017
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Studio SB
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Dzintra Geka
PRODUCER: Dzintra Geka
SYNOPSIS: There are cinematic operators
who can feel the warm pulsation of essence
when there are insiduous flashes over the
course of time, thus revealing the sensible
aspects of lives. Eternity is reflected by
their film projects. These are the quiet
whispers of things and phenomena, as
woven together in strands of thoughts.
Eduards Tise also had the uncommon
ability to preserve the light of life in
fragmented rolls of film.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: The producer and
director Dzintra Geka graduated from The
State Theatre, Music and Film Institute in
St.Petersburg as director of motion picture
and TV production, 1979. From 1970 until
1980 was assistant director of the National
Film Board of Latvia. From 1980 until 1992,
she was director of the Telefilma Studio.
Since 1992, she has worked for various
production companies. In 1996, she was
the director of the Power and Chronicles
conference. Since 1982 has directed more
than 40 documentaries.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Studio SB was
established in 2001 in Riga. Focus on
documenting the memories of people
who were deported from Latvia on
June 14, 1941, as children. The studio
produces documentaries and seeks out
and interviews deportees. The studio
has also produced documentaries about
personalities – Signe And..., John Dored’s
Island, and Job No.1: The President., Gvido
Zvaigzne. They have produced many of the
documentaries in the Century of Cinema in
Latvia series.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer, director
Dzintra Geka
REPRESENTATIVE: Producers assistant
Toms Kreicbergs
LOOKING FOR: distribution, sales agents
and TV buyers
LIBERATION DAY
GENRE: documentary musical
LOGLINE: All art is propaganda. George
Orwell …and all propaganda is art. Laibach
LENGTH: 100’
COMING: November 2016
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Norway
COMPANIES: VFS Films, Traavik.info
WEB: www.vfs.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTORS: Uģis Olte, Morten Traavik
PRODUCERS: Uldis Cekulis, Morten Traavik
SYNOPSIS: Under the loving but firm
guidance of an old fan turned director and
cultural diplomat and to the surprise of a
whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band
Laibach becomes the first foreign rock
group ever to perform in the fortress state
of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology
and cultural differences, the band struggles
to get their songs through the needle’s eye
of censorship before they can be unleashed
on an audience that has never been
exposed to an alternative rock’n’roll before.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Uģis Olte music has always been the most magical
element of my creative life. The most
potent, abstract and emotional tool that a
filmmaker can have in its arsenal. Morten
Traavik - Having built trust, through years
of border-expanding collaborative art
performances with both Laibach and North
Korean authorities separately, it seemed
worth the try to bring them together.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: VFS Films is a film
production company which houses a large
group of filmmakers around a tight nucleus
– best at telling human stories through
award-winning documentaries or creative
TV productions. With a skin rough enough
to spend much time outdoors.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Uldis Cekulis
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Uģis Olte
LOOKING FOR: distribution
KNUTIFICATION
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: Not to disappear, not to break
down, to live, to survive, how to live as a
human – these are the messages conveyed
by a poet during 80 years of his life course.
LENGTH: 85’
COMING: 2017
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Lithuania, Czech Republic
COMPANY: Mojo Raiser Production
WEB: www.mojoraiserproduction.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Ivars Tontegode
PRODUCER: Guna Stahovska
SYNOPSIS: Knutification – a process
of learning, metamorphosis. This film
provokes to review one’s own existence and
being in this world through the prism of
the Zeitgeist and personality of the Latvian
poet Knuts Skujenieks. The film reveals the
eternal struggle of a strong personality’s
coming to terms with the society and
system in which an individual is seen only
as the minimum value. Knuts is not a macro
revolutionary aiming to change the system,
but is rather a micro rebel in his own inner
world.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Guna
Stahovska
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: The director of
the film, Ivars Tontegode (received Lielais
Kristaps award for his short film Obsession,
based on the short he directed a fulllength feature The Mushroomers) is widely
known for his urge to experiment and
depict the inner struggle and evolution of
strong personalities in a highly creative and
modern manner.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: The Mojo Raiser
Production’s (established in 2011) main
focus is emotionaly touching and edgy
stories in every genre comparing it with
new, fresh approach to filmmaking in
Latvia, using high quality shooting and
supplementing documentary reality with
artistic atmosphere shots and visualisations
as the centrepiece of the filming method.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Ivars Tontegode
LOOKING FOR: distribution, festivals
SYNOPSIS: The documentary To be
Continued: Through the Eyes of a Child
captures our country’s destiny through the
eyes of children as well observes how the
situation in the country shapes the lives of
the children.
TO BE CONTINUED: THROUGH THE EYES
OF A CHILD
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: SSeven children in the interplay
of different historical, social and economical
processes.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: January 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Mistrus Media
WEB: www.mistrusmedia.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Ivars Seleckis
PRODUCER: Antra Gaile
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Film director and
cinematographer Ivars Seleckis is the oldest
documentary filmmaker in Latvia who is
still actively working. His filmography is
like a bridge connecting the modern day
with the legendary past of the Latvian
documentary tradition, and Seleckis is one
of most prolific creators of that tradition.
His documentaries are noted for their
thorough and sophisticated analysis of
the social processes. His film Crossroad
Street received an EFA award for best
documentary.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Mistrus Media was
established in 2000 and has since become
one of leading production companies
in Latvia. The variety of Mistrus Media
productions have strong reflection on
historical themes, including docu-fiction
Escaping Riga (70’, dir. Dāvis Sīmanis, 2014)
that premiered at IDFA 2014 and has been
shown in international festivals worldwide,
and feature drama Chronicles of Melanie
(120’, dir. Viesturs Kairišs), a co-production
with Finland and Czech Republic to be
released in November 2016.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Antra Gaile
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Ivars Seleckis
LOOKING FOR: co-producers, distribution
SYNOPSIS: The protagonist of the film is
certainly an artist = a vandal = a provoker =
anarchist Petr Pavlensky (31), although the
setting of the film outgrows the genre of a
traditional cinematic portrait. The goal of
the film is to create a warning scene of the
age and the portrait of Russia today when
superpower of the state once again is trying
to set a course to totalitarian regime with
iron curtain.
PAVLENSKY. LIFE NAKED
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: Last man standing naked.
LENGTH: 60’
COMING: December 2016
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Russia
COMPANY: Ego Media
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Darya Khrenova
PRODUCERS: Guntis Trekteris, Darya
Khrenova, Vlad Ketkovich
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Graduated from
Moscow Institute of Cinematography as a
cinema critics (VGIK). Worked on TV channel
Culture as a chief-editor, author, director of
the programs. In 2006-2013 director and
a script-writer in TV series Documentary
Camera. Worked on TV channels TVC, REN
TV, The First. Author of one bestseller autofiction book, short stories, critical essays,
reviews. Graduated script laboratory
Cultburo with British tutor Peter Ansorge.
Author of number of internationally
awarded documentaries.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Riga-based Ego
Media was established by experienced
Latvian producer Guntis Trekteris in 2005 to
produce documentaries and fiction for local
and international audiences.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Guntis
Trekteris
LOOKING FOR: pre-sales, sales agents,
festivals
PEOPLE FROM NOWHERE
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: A personal story from the
daughter of a Cold War double agent.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: Autumn 2017
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Estonia, Czech Republic, Germany
COMPANIES: Mistrus Media, PIMIK, 8Heads
Productions, Kick Film
WEB: www.mistrusmedia.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTORS: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grūbe
PRODUCER: Antra Gaile
SYNOPSIS: In 1978, Ieva Lesinska had just
spent a heady month in New York visiting
her father, Imants Lesinskis, a Soviet
translator working at the United Nations.
He was an employee of the KGB and a
member of the Communist Party. During
her trip Ieva’s father informed her that he
and his wife Rasma were about to defect.
He offered her a blunt choice: take a taxi to
the Soviet Embassy and denounce him as a
traitor, or stay with him and never see her
mother or her homeland again. She chose
to stay.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Estonian
director’s Jaak Kilmi’s most recognized
film - documentary fiction Disco &
Atomic War (2009) - has received
numerous international festival awards
and broadcasted around the world. Codirector Gints Grūbe has been involved
in film industry for almost 20 years by
being scriptwriter, producer and director
for more than 10 documentaries. Sounds
Under the Sun (co-writer & co-director with
Dāvis Sīmanis, 62’, 2010,) premiered at DOK
Leipzig in 2010.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Production
company Mistrus Media was established in
2000 and has since become one of leading
production companies in Latvia. Mistrus
Media produces creative documentaries,
feature films and provides filming and
location services. The latest feature
documentary Escaping Riga premiered
internationally at IDFA 2014 and was
screened in several international film
festivals around the world.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Antra Gaile
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Gints Grūbe
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Jaak Kilmi
LOOKING FOR: pre-sales, distribution
THE LAST PAGANS OF EUROPE
GENRE: recreation documentary
LOGLINE: The film tells a story about the
so called last pagans of Europe - the Baltic
tribes in 13th century.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: May 2018
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Poland
COMPANY: Tritone Studio
WEB: www.tritone.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTORS: Raitis Ābele, Lauris Ābele
PRODUCERS: Kristele Pudāne, Thom
Palmen, Dace Siatkovska
SYNOPSIS: Film tells a story about the so
called last pagans of Europe - the Baltic tribes.
The North and the East were the last regions
of Europe where people practiced a religion
that’s based on the worshiping of nature. The
story is told through the eyes of the main
protagonist - a merchant from Gotland - as
he experiences the events during Northern
crusade of the Eastern Baltic Sea area in
the 13th century. The arrival of Christianity
brought along remarkable geopolitical and
socioeconomic changes. Who were they and
what can we learn from them?
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Raitis Ābele has
studied at New York Film Academy, obtained
BA degree of Humanitarian Sciences in
Psychology and currently studies for MA
degree in Psychology. Lauris Ābele has
obtained MA degree in Audio-Visual Arts
(film directing) at Latvian Academy of Culture
and BA degree in Humanitarian Sciences
(philosophy). As for their artistic vision, both
brothers are focusing on existential problems
and talking about them using strong visual
elements.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Tritone Studio is
full service film production and in-house
postproduction company based in Riga, Latvia.
Since 2009 they have produced short films,
music videos, animation and documentaries.
Film Castratus the Boar has been selected
to numerous film festivals in Europe,
United States and Asia. It received Grand
Prix on Tampere Film Festival 2015. And TV
documentary Curonians received prize for
the best short length documentary in Latvian
National film festival Lielais Kristaps 2015.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Kristele
Pudāne
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Raitis Ābele
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Thom Palmen
LOOKING FOR: sales agents and
distribution
THE SMUGGLER
GENRE: documentary
LOGLINE: While Europe is about to decide
how to deal with refugees, increasing
number of illegal immigrants from Vietnam
arrive across the eastern border of Latvia.
LENGTH: 80’
COMING: November 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Dokumentalists
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Ivars Zviedris
PRODUCER: Marta Bite
SYNOPSIS: Over the past two years several
hundreds of Vietnamese immigrants were
trying to cross European Union’s eastern
border illegally. They are no longer a
surprise for our border guards, larger and
smaller groups are crossing border every
week. Some people who live in villages
near the border assist them in order to
earn money. The film takes place in Latvian
border villages and follows the Vietnamese
Trail.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Marta Bite
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Born in 1967, he
graduated in film directing from Latvian
Academy of Culture in 2001. His films
display a genuine interest in the innermost
hidden feelings and sensibilities of his
protagonists, and a skill in capturing them
on film. His films Tide and Documentarian
won the best feature length documentary
and audience awards in 2009 and 2012.
He is the member of the Latvian National
Television and Radio Board.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Ivars Zviedris
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Production
Company Dokumentalists is based in Riga,
Latvia and founded by directors Ivars
Zviedris and Inese Klava. It focuses on
production of high quality documentary
films.
REPRESENTATIVE: Assistant DOP Haralds
Ozols
LOOKING FOR: co-production
FILMS FROM LATVIA. FICTION FILMS
1906
GENRE: crime, adventure
LOGLINE: An odd couple of idealistic
outcasts dive into the deadly world of 1905
revolution in Riga.
LENGTH: 100’
COMING: October 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: TANKA Film Studio
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Gatis Šmits
PRODUCER: Augustas Katilius
SYNOPSIS: After a spree of violent attacks
in Riga, a self-styled anarchist Grey takes
refuge in a small countryside town. There
he meets Violeta, an aspiring poetess
and extra-marital daughter of a German
nobleman. They develop a romantic
bond based on radical ideas and mutual
attraction. When the couple arrives in Riga
an unprecedented month of bohemian
craziness and bloody terror commences.
The film is about a relationship of two odd
characters on the background of dramatic
events of Riga in 1906.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Gatis Šmits is an
award winning Latvian film and theatre
director, founder of Tanka film studio.
His film directing credits include Agent
Madly in Love (Clarmond-Ferrand festival)
and Return of Sergeant Lapins (Busan
Internation Film Festival). Gatis Šmits also
produced the feature Mother, I Love You
(winner of Berlinale and LA Film Festival).
Gatis is currently preparing to direct 1906
- a crime adventure movie set during the
turbulent days of the revolutionary uprising
in Riga.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Tanka Film studio
is based in Riga, Latvia. It has produced
two award winning feature films Return of
Sergeant Lapins (2010) and Mother I Love
You (2013). Currently Tanka studio is in
pre-production of crime adventure feature
1906.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Gatis Šmits
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Augustas
Katilius
REPRESENTATIVE: Assistant producer
Marta Elīna Martinsone
LOOKING FOR: distribution, production
designer
SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged intellectual
commits an act of unintentional homicide
in order to regain his dignity in the eyes of
his wife, but soon it occures to him there
is a strange connection between the dead,
the sudden pregnancy of his wife and the
mysterious blackmailer, who tries to force
him to commit yet another awful thing.
FIRSTBORN
GENRE: thriller, drama
LOGLINE: An architect commits a homicide
in order to restore his dignity in his wife’s
eyes, but soon after things get out of hand.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: Spring 2017
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Locomotive Productions
WEB: www.locomotive.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Aik Karapetian
PRODUCER: Roberts Vinovskis
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Born on 10 July,
1983. Aiks’ debut feature film People Out
There was premiered in Karlovy Vary IFF;
the second feature was a horror movie The
Man In The Orange Jacket. Aik has worked
as theatrical director and has directed
several productions in the Latvian National
Opera as well – his debute was The Barber
of Seville and the second opera production
- Faust - premiered just a few weeks ago.
Aiks’ new feature film - a thriller Firstborn will be released in 2017.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Film studio
Locomotive Productions produces fiction,
creative documentaries and animation.
Founded in 1999, in recent years it has
become one of fastest growing, most
creative and productive film studios in the
Baltic Countries. Nearly all films produced
by Locomotive Productions have been
premiered in well-known international film
festivals.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Roberts
Vinovskis
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Aik Karapetian
LOOKING FOR: sales agent, festival for
world premiere
HOMO NOVUS
GENRE: comedy
LOGLINE: Only by being true to yourself
and your talent, can you hope for success in
your life and your artistic endeavours.
LENGTH: 95’
COMING: November 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Film Angels Productions
WEB: www.angels.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Anna Viduleja
PRODUCERS: Jānis Kalējs, Sergejs
Berdičevskis, Ivo Ceplevičs
SYNOPSIS: 1938. A poor artist Upenājs
arrives in Riga from the country-side
while at the same time the refined Žibeika
returns from his painting session in Paris.
Under guidance of the curator and critic
Kurcums, Upenājs experiences success
and failure, contempt and love. Žibeika
loses money, his beloved woman and
the competition. Upenājs triumphs in the
competition and follows the old master
Piegāzs’s advice: Genuine artists try to
grasp and disclose the spirit of one’s nation
in painting.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Director Anna
Viduleja has studied at the Latvian Culture
Academy and European Film College
(Denmark). She is a graduate of the
National Film and Television School in the
UK; her graduation film Nocturnal (2000)
was included in the Cannes Film Festival
official selection. She has directed several
short films, music videos and commercials.
Together with three other directors she
directed one of the four novellas in the
feature film Vogelfrei (2007), which received
several nominations and awards.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Production
company focusing on international cooperation and active production; set up
on the basis of the Film Angel Studio
established in 2002. Being one of the most
active film production companies in the
region, it produces commercials and music
videos as well as co-operates with local and
foreign partners, providing film production
services to international crews from
Germany, Finland, Russia, Denmark, Japan,
Hong Kong and others.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer, partner Jānis
Kalējs
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer, partner Ivo
Ceplevičs
LOOKING FOR: co-producers
SYNOPSIS: Butcher Oļeg leaves for Brussels
in order to earn a decent salary at a local
meat factory, yet his hopeful life turns
into a desperately hopeless one, when he
gets under the control of polish criminal
Andrzej.
OLEG
GENRE: drama
LOGLINE: Butcher Oļeg leaves for Brussels
in order to earn a decent salary at a local
meat factory, yet his hopeful life turns
into a desperately hopeless one, when he
gets under the control of polish criminal
Andrzej.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: 2018
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Poland, Belgium
COMPANY: Tasse Film
WEB: www.tasse.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Juris Kursietis
PRODUCERS: Aija Bērziņa, Alise Ģelze
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Juris Kursietis
started his career at the age of 20, when
he worked for the Latvian Television
news department as foreign news
correspondent. At that point he was also
taking his first steps in longer feature
stories and mini-documentaries. After 6
years in television he turned to cinema.
He went to the UK to do his MA in film
directing at the Northern Media School.
His debut feature film Modris premiered
in 2014 in official selection of Toronto
International Film Festival.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Tasse Film is a
production company, founded in February
2011, that has announced itself as a strong
administrative and creative team led by
two experienced producers – Aija Bērziņa
and Alise Ģelze. Company’s first featurelength production Mellow Mud had it’s
world premiere at the Berlin International
Film Festival and won a Chrystal Bear for
best film in the Generation 14plus sidebar.
The company’s main focus is production
of feature films, especially supporting
upcoming talents.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Juris Kursietis
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Aija Bērziņa
LOOKING FOR: festivals, sales
THE BOY AND THE DOG
GENRE: coming-of-age
LOGLINE: A coming of age story about a
boy who kept a secret and saved fifty Jews
from certain death in 1942 in Riga.
LENGTH: 100’
COMING: April 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Mistrus Media
WEB: www.mistrusmedia.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Dāvis Sīmanis
PRODUCERS: Gints Grūbe, Antra Gaile
SYNOPSIS: Ten-year-old Zigis lives with
his family in a house on the bank of a river
in Riga, Latvia. In 1941, Latvia is occupied
by the German army. Repressions begin
against the Jews. Žanis, Zigis’s father, an
enthusiastic and fearless adventurer, digs a
bunker in the yard of his house to save the
Jews. In time, Zigis understands his father’s
humanity and this experience changes
him from a careless and dreamy boy to a
mature adolescent who is fully aware of the
cruelty of war.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Dāvis Sīmanis,
PhD Arts, is a Latvian filmmaker and
theorist. He has directed number of poetic
documentary films as well as cross-genre
features that have participated in number
of major festivals. His recent films include
docu-fiction Escaping Riga (2014) and his
first fiction feature My Peaceful Place Of
Exile, which tells a tragic story about the
fate of a remote mental institution in the
times of I World War.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Mistrus Media was
established in 2000 and has since become
one of leading production companies
in Latvia. The variety of Mistrus Media
productions have strong reflection on
historical themes, including docu-fiction
Escaping Riga (70’, dir. Dāvis Sīmanis, 2014)
that premiered at IDFA 2014 and has been
shown in international festivals worldwide,
and feature drama Chronicles of Melanie
(120’, dir. Viesturs Kairišs), a co-production
with Finland and Czech Republic to be
released in November 2016.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Gints Grūbe
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Dāvis Sīmanis
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Antra Gaile
LOOKING FOR: co-production, distribution
THE RING OF KINGS
GENRE: drama, history
LOGLINE: Northern Europe, 13th century.
Christianity has already spread across
all Viking lands except Semigallia, where
people are still worshiping the pagan Gods.
The evil and cynical warrior crusader Max is
trying to destroy the pagan beliefs. Young
king Namey is the only one who can stop
him.
LENGTH: 110’
COMING: November 2017
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
United Kingdom
COMPANY: Platforma
WEB: www.platformafilm.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Aigars Grauba
PRODUCER: Andrejs Ēķis
SYNOPSIS: Northern Europe, 13th century.
Christianity has already spread across
all Viking lands except Semigallia, where
people are still worshiping the pagan
Gods. As the last pagan king is on his
deathbed without an heir, the evil warrior
crusader Max tries to destroy pagan beliefs
by spreading lies and fostering dissent,
vowing to reign over the old king’s tribe.
Unexpectedly, with his dying breath the
King passes on his magical rulers ring to a
young warrior Namey. Will he be able to
save Semigallia?
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Andrejs Ēķis
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Aigars Grauba –
director and writer - is a renowned Latvian
film director, producer and scriptwriter. In
the past decade he has worked as director
and writer on the biggest film projects in
Latvia – Dangerous Summer (2000) and
Defenders of Riga (2007) Dream Team 1935
(2012).
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Platforma is
experienced and successful film production
company that has produced three highest
grossing Latvian films of all time. Company
also distributes their own films in Baltic
States. In addition to that, Platforma has
the biggest outdoor filming backlot in
Northern Europe - Cinevilla Backlot.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Aigars Grauba
REPRESENTATIVE: Executive producer
Kristians Alhimionoks
LOOKING FOR: sales agent, financing, postproduction
SYNOPSIS: The feature What Nobody Can
See is a psychological drama with elements
of science fiction. The story is based on
the relationship of the nurse Elsa with her
patient Nicola who has fallen into deep
coma after experimenting with creation
of artificial intelligence. He has to go
through a long and hard period of recovery,
complicated by the artificial intellect Anna,
eager to keep Nicola just for herself.
WHAT NOBODY CAN SEE
GENRE: drama
LOGLINE: Love is a choice.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: November 2016
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Ego Media
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Staņislavs Tokalovs
PRODUCER: Guntis Trekteris
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: What Nobody Can
See (2016) feature film / Post-production.
Mikhail Tal. From a Far (March 2016)
feature documentary. A Little Longer
(2014), short film / National Film Prize Best Short. The shoe ( 2012 ), short film.
Extensive experience in screenwriting, from
2015 lecturer in RISEBA university. Subject:
screenwriting. Before that: Extensive
experience in all possible film positions:
writer, 1 AD, producer, line producer,
production coordinator, stunt coordinator,
stuntman, sound rec.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Riga-based Ego
Media was established by experienced
Latvian producer Guntis Trekteris in 2005 to
produce documentaries and fiction for local
and international audiences.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Guntis
Trekteris
REPRESENTATIVE: Staņislavs Tokalovs,
director
LOOKING FOR: sales agents, festivals
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM PROJECTS
SYNOPSIS: Arriving at her cousins home
in a late eighties Latvia rattled by political
turmoil, nine year old Paula first encounters
a life of freedom and carelessness – without
parents watching every step she takes. But
when faced with divorce in her own family
she learns that no matter what the future
of her country might bring, family values
are of greater significance than anything
else.
PARADISE ‘89
GENRE: children’s film
LOGLINE: Moments before the collapse
of the Soviet Union, nine year old Paula is
faced with changes in her own family.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: 2018
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Germany
COMPANY: Tasse Film
WEB: www.tasse.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Madara Dišlere
PRODUCERS: Aija Bērziņa, Alise Ģelze
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Director and
scriptwriter Madara Dislere has studied film
directing in Latvian Academy of Culture.
Starting from her first films (Poem, Broken
Pines, Gardener) she has showed a talent
for developing strong stories. Her artistic
vision and refined sense of the image gives
her films a special feel.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Tasse Film is a
production company, founded in February
2011, that has announced itself as a strong
administrative and creative team led by
two experienced producers – Aija Bērziņa
and Alise Ģelze. Company’s first featurelength production Mellow Mud had it’s
world premiere at the Berlin International
Film Festival and won a Chrystal Bear for
best film in the Generation 14plus sidebar.
The company’s main focus is production
of feature films, especially supporting
upcoming talents.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Madara Dišlere
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Aija Bērziņa
LOOKING FOR: festivals, sales
MOONWOLVES
GENRE: comedy, animation
LOGLINE: One night, the moonwolves
decided to try to go to the moon.
LENGTH: 70’
COMING: February 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Sweden
COMPANIES: Hob AB & Navie AB
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Nima Yousefi
PRODUCER: Nima Yousefi
SYNOPSIS: A lot of strange and wonderful
creatures can be found in a forest, and in this
particular forest there is an unusually special
sort.These creatures do not remember when
they discovered that they like glitter and all
things that shine, nor do they remember when
they started to be called Moonwolves. What
they are certain of is that they love lamps,
coins, knights and armory, stars, and their
best friends, the fireflies. But most of all, they
love the moon. Every night the Moonwolves
sit and stare dreamily towards it. One night,
their longing grows so intense that they decide
they can not just sit and stare at it anymore.
They decide to go to the moon. So does the
adventures start for the Moonwolves, where
they meet every obstacle and challenge by just
being curious and playful.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Nima Yousefi grew
up with his parents working with film, and
theatre in Iran and Sweden. Ever since one of
his earliest memories Nima fell in love with
the craft and art of movie productions. Nima
Studied economy and philosophy at Stockholm
University school of Business and has a
Bachelor’s degree. During the recent years Nima
has got a broad experience working with both
live action and animation – films with some of
Swedens well known production companies.
Nima Yousefi is an EAVE Puentes grad.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: More than 30 features
produced. Heads of the company are Peter
Krupenin and Nima Yousefi. Hob Ab focuses on
projects with kids, young adults and families
as their primary audience. The philosophy is
diversity and core values, targeted for a broad
audience. Hob AB has a clear focus with an
expansion together with partners not only in
Sweden but, largely, internationally, in mind.
Hob have chosen a segment for its production
with great potential in a number of platforms,
both live action and animation.
REPRESENTATIVE: Co-director Oskar
Gullstrand
LOOKING FOR: co-producers, distribution,
broadcast, sales agents, financiers
SYNOPSIS: Los Bando Immortale is a
feelgood roadmovie about a young band
who set out on a journey across Norway to
attend the National Championships of Rock
- in a race against time, the police and their
parents.
LOS BANDO IMMORTALE
GENRE: comedy
LOGLINE: A band, a van, a dream.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: February 2018
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Norway,
Sweden
COMPANY: Filmbin
WEB: www.filmbin.no
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Christian Lo
PRODUCERS: Trine Aadalen Lo, Nicholas
Sando
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Christian Lo (b.
1977, from Lillehammer) had his feature
film debut Rafiki (orig. Bestevenner)
selected for the Berlinale in 2010. The
Tough Guys (De tøffeste gutta, 2013) was
his second feature. Previously Christian
has directed four award winning short
films for children; Punctured (2001), Iver
(2004), Ramp (2005) and Baluba Runa
(2007). Christian Lo studied film in England
and now works for the Lillehammer-based
production company Filmbin.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Filmbin is
dedicated to producing children’s and
youth films, situated in Lillehammer,
Norway. Filmbin consists of four people,
producer Trine Aadalen Lo, producer
Nicholas Sando, director Christian Lo,
and editor/screenwriter Arild Tryggestad.
They have made several award winning
children’s short films and two feature films.
Rafiki was nominated for the Crystal Bear
at the Belinale in 2010. Second feature The
Tough Guys won the Best Childrens film at
Nordiche Filmtage Lubeck.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Christian Lo
LOOKING FOR: pre-sales, broadcast,
distribution, sales agent, co-production
BENTE AND THE MUTANT SCOUTS
GENRE: atomic adventure
LOGLINE: An animated, atomic adventure
for kids, aged 8-12, about a little girl having
to overcome her insecurities to save the
entire human race.
LENGTH: 75’
COMING: 2020
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Denmark,
TBC Sweden, Norway
COMPANY: Good Company Films
WEB: www.goodcompanyfilms.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Tor Fruergaard
PRODUCER: Claudia Saginario
SYNOPSIS: Even though 12-year old Bente
is overweight and clumsy, she decides to go
to scout camp to make her father proud.
After an explosion at a local nuclear power
plant, all the scouts are turned into raging
mutants. Bente survives the blast and steps
up to take charge and during the following
mutant killing spree, she learns that it is no
good trying to become what other people
want you to be. You have to be who you
are.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Has worked
professionally with illustration, animation,
design and storytelling for more than
fifteen years. He began directing music
videos and animated short films,
and in 2005 made his first short film,
zombiewestern – It Came From the West.
In 2010 he graduated from the Danish
National Film School in Copenhagen, where
he directed several animated short films
and computer games. His newest short
film Growing Pains opened at Toronto
International Filmfestival and won an Oscar
qualifying award.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Good Company
Films aims to develop and produce strong
fiction for the Danish and International
markets, with a special focus on developing
new talent and content for future
distribution platforms.
REPRESENTATIVE: Director Tor Fruergaard
LOOKING FOR: distribution, sales agents,
co-producers
BILLE
GENRE: family, drama
LOGLINE: Extraordinary and a little bit
lonely girl with a vivid imagination and
determined spirit attempts to comprehend
the adult world, which she sees as very
contradictory. In spite of being ignored and
not appreciated by her family, she learns
to believe in herself and proves herself
worthy.
LENGTH: 90’
COMING: March 2018
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic
COMPANY: Film Studio DEVIŅI
WEB: www.devini.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Ināra Kolmane
PRODUCERS: Jānis Juhņēvičs, Marta
Romanova-Jēkabsone
SYNOPSIS: Based on a best-selling novel
Bille by the popular Latvian writer and
Nobel Prize nominee Vizma Belsevica, the
film lets us join the adventures of the lively
little girl Bille who explores the colourful
world around her in the late 1930s Latvia.
When she faces disappointment about
the attitude of adults, she decidedly leads
a pilgrimage to the Wonderland, she had
heard about from her grandma, with other
kids in the yard. There houses are made
of gingerbread and rivers are flowing
lemonade.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Ināra Kolmane is
one of the most recognized film directors
in Latvia. Her latest documentary Ruch And
Norie (2015) has become a National Film
Festival Lielais Kristaps Best Documentary
Award winner. The most popular is the
documentary My Husband Andrei Sakharov
(Latvia-France) and feature film Mona
(Latvia-Iceland). Ināra graduated from St.
Petersburg Institute of Theatre, Music and
Cinematography in 1994. In 1991, she cofounded Film Studio DEVIŅI in Riga, Latvia.
She is a member of EFA.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Film Studio DEVIŅI
was established in 1991 in Riga, Latvia and
up to this day is an active player in the
Latvian and European film industry. Today
our company focuses on the co-production
of feature films and documentaries. From
Latvia to all over the world, the productions
and co-productions have received
accolades and conquered their place in the
global film market participating in over 100
international film festivals.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Jānis Juhņēvičs
REPRESENTATIVE: Screenwriter Arvis
Kolmanis
REPRESENTATIVE: Screenwriter, producers
assistant Evita Sniedze
LOOKING FOR: funding, festivals,
distribution
SYNOPSIS: In every episode Hopscotch
comes up with with a delightful plan to help
friends and neighbours to be joyful.
HAPPY GO HOPSCOTCH
GENRE: animated TV series
LOGLINE: Meet Hopscotch! The happy
horse - she is on the mission to cheer up
the world!
LENGTH: 7’x52
COMING: 2020
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Lithuania,
United Kingdom
COMPANY: Kinomind Films
WEB: www.kinomindfilms.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Katerina Lavrionova
PRODUCER: Inesa Ivanova
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Katerina was born
in Moscow, classically trained, graduate of
Russian National Film School (VGIK) and
the National Film and Television School
in UK. Animation director on several
documentaries commissioned by TV
Russia-1.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Kinomind Films
was established in Lithuania, U.K. and
recently Canada. Company is developing a
diverse slate of film, tv and digital projects.
REPRESENTATIVE: Co-founder, CEO,
producer Inesa Ivanova
REPRESENTATIVE: Co-founder, CEO, head
of distribution Gabija Budreckyte
LOOKING FOR: broadcast, licensing, coproduction
MORTEN ON THE SHIP OF FOOLS
GENRE: stop-motion adventure
LOGLINE: Sometimes you need to be
shrinked in order to grow up.
LENGTH: 80’
COMING: February 2018
COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: Estonia,
Ireland, Belgium
COMPANY: Nukufilm OÜ
WEB: www.nukufilm.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt
PRODUCERS: Kerdi Oengo, Andrus
Raudsalu
SYNOPSIS: Morten is a 10-year old
dreamer. His Father sails the seas on his
ship, The Salamander. Morten is taken care
of by Aunt Anna, who is an evil task-master.
Morten plays with a toy boat with insects
for crew. One day Morten is magically
shrunk and awakes on his toy boat! He is
thrilled to be a Captain but the bugs are as
big as he is and they eerily resemble adults
from his ‘real’ world. Storm is coming and
the toy ship is sinking. Morten has to save
the ship and return to the real world.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Kaspar Jancis freelance artist, director, composer, set
designer. He has created several drawn
short anmations, in 2010 his animated film
Crocodile won Cartoon d’Or. Recently he
finished another short animation Piano
that has already been awarded with several
prices. Morten is his first stop-motion film
and also his first full-lenght feature.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Nukufilm is the
oldest and largest stop motion studio in
Northern Europe established in 1957,
in Tallinn, Estonia. They have worldclass facilities for stop-motion animation
+ energetic team of more than 30
professionals. In the library there are 200
films, 50 made during the independence.
They offer creative and production services
of stop-motion in studio environment
with highly qualified multi-award-winning
crew. International co-productions cover
Scandinavia, Ireland, Belgium, Russia.
REPRESENTATIVE: Producer Kerdi Oengo
LOOKING FOR: distribution
JACOB, MIMMI AND THE TALKING DOGS
GENRE: animation
LOGLINE: An imagination-rich boy, his
know-it-all girl cousin and a pack of
talking dogs: will they save their romantic
neighbourhood?
LENGTH: 70’
COMING: October 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Latvia
COMPANY: Atom Art
WEB: www.atomart.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DIRECTOR: Edmunds Jansons
PRODUCER: Sabīne Andersone
SYNOPSIS: When Dad takes his seven-yearold son Jacob from a spacious flat in the
city centre to the city’s suburbs to spend
his summer there, the imagination-rich boy
discovers a previously unknown world. He
meets his uncle, the former seaman Eagle,
and his cousin, the self-confident know-it-all
Mimmi, and he makes friends with Boss the leader of talking dogs. Will kids manage
to become a united team and together with
the dogs save the neighborhood from the
rich tycoon Manny Pie who wants to turn
the romantic district into an impersonal
area of glass skyscrapers and shopping
centers?
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Edmunds
Jansons (1972) is animation film director,
animator and graphic designer. He is
founder of animation studio Atom Art.
His award winning short films Choir Tour,
International Father’s Day and Isle Of Seals
have been screened in numerous festivals
all over the world, amongst them, Annecy,
Ottawa, Hiroshima, Zagreb, a.o. Edmunds
Jansons is also recognized children’s book
illustrator.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Atom Art is an
independent animation studio based in
Riga, Latvia. During the last years Atom
Art has premiered more than ten award
winning short films that travel festivals
around the world. Currently, Atom Art is in
production of Christmas tv special Pigtail
and Mr.Sleeplessness and develops feature
animation film Jacob, Mimmi and the
Talking Dogs.
REPRESENTATIVE: Assistant director Anete
Melece
LOOKING FOR: distribution
DECISION MAKERS
Elīna Liberte
POSITION: Head of marketing &
distribution
COMPANY: ACME Film
WEB: www.acmefilm.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Ritvars Jakobijs
POSITION: Marketing Manager
COMPANY: ACME Film Latvia
WEB: www.acmefilm.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Keiko Funato
POSITION: Co-CEO, Sales & Acquisitions
COMPANY: ALPHA VIOLET
WEB: www.alphaviolet.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: France
Giedre Kriksciunaite
POSITION: Managing director
COMPANY: A-One films Baltic
WEB: www.a-onefilms.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Lithuania
Goda Sosnovskiene
POSITION: Head of Education programs
COMPANY: Cinema Center Skalvija
WEB: www.skalvija.lt
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Lithuania
Sasha Wieser
POSITION: CEO
COMPANY: EastWest Filmdistribution
GmbH
WEB: www.eastwest-distribution.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Austria
Sara Čorbić Mustafić
POSITION: Sales assistant
COMPANY: Film Republic
WEB: www.filmrepublic.biz
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
Zane Kauliņa
POSITION: Program Manager
COMPANY: SIA Forum Cinemas
WEB: www.forumcinemas.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Ilze Roķe
POSITION: Head of Distribution
COMPANY: SIA Forum Cinemas
WEB: www.forumcinemas.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Gabija Budreckyte
POSITION: Co-founder
COMPANY: Kinomind Films
WEB: www.kinomindfilms.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Lithuania
Kerlī Gabriloviča
POSITION: Development and marketing
director
COMPANY: Lattelecom
WEB: www.lattelecom.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Annija Rutka
POSITION: TV Content Project Manager
COMPANY: Lattelecom
WEB: www.lattelecom.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Liene Kalniņa
POSITION: Marketing Communications
Manager
COMPANY: Lattelecom
WEB: www.lattelecom.lv; www.shortcut.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Šarlote Līduma
POSITION: Head of Acquisitions
COMPANY: Latvijas Televīzija
WEB: www.ltv.lsm.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Anna Rozenvalde
POSITION: Content Acquistion Manager
COMPANY: LMT Straume TV and VOD
platform, Latvijas Mobilais Telefons SIA
WEB: www.lmt.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Ole Georg Østevik
POSITION: CEO
COMPANY: Manymore films
WEB: www.manymore.no
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Norway
Anu Veermäe-Kaldra
POSITION: Board member
COMPANY: MENUFILMID OÜ
WEB: www.menufilmid.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Estonia
Peter Shepotinnik
POSITION: Head of communication
COMPANY: Moscow Film Festival
WEB: www.moscowfilmfestival.ru
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Russia
Asya Kolodizhner
POSITION: Selection Committee
COMPANY: Moscow Film Festival
WEB: www.moscowfilmfestival.ru
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Russia
Gita Pētersone
POSITION: Head of acquisitions and
programme planning
COMPANY: MTG TV Latvia
WEB: www.skaties.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Kristi Porila
POSITION: Head of Dirstirbution (Buyer)
COMPANY: Must Käsi / Cinema Sõprus
WEB: www.kinosporus.ee
E-MAIL:[email protected]
COUNTRY: Estonia
Vaiko Edur
POSITION: Head of Programmes
COMPANY: Pärnu International
Documentary and Anthropology Film
Festival
WEB: www.mona.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Estonia
Elena Poroshina
POSITION: Festival Programmer for Children
Documentaries
COMPANY: Pärnu International Documentary
and Anthropology Film Festival
WEB: www.mona.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Estonia
Roberto Cueto
POSITION: Programmer
COMPANY: San Sebastian International
Film Festival
WEB: www.sansebastianfestival.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Spain
Ruta Buciunaite
POSITION: Audience Development
Coordinator
COMPANY: Scanorama
WEB: www.scanorama.lt
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Lithuania
Sergejs Timoņins
POSITION: Managing director
COMPANY: Spektrs
WEB: www.kinospektrs.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Sergejs Musatovs
POSITION: Managing director
COMPANY: Spektrs
WEB: www.kinospektrs.lv
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Latvia
Johannes Lõhmus
POSITION: Distribution consultant
COMPANY: Tartu Elektriteater
WEB: www.elektriteater.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Estonia
Andres Kauts
POSITION: Cinema manager
COMPANY: Tartu Elektriteater
WEB: www.elektriteater.ee
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: Estonia
Michaela Čajková
POSITION: Sales & festivals coordinator
COMPANY: Taskovski Films
WEB: www.taskovskifilms.com
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COUNTRY: United Kingdom