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The “Lithuanian Artists” project is to be comprised of a set of (DVD format) digital portraits of Lithuanian artists. It features the most prominent and most significant professional artists and artistic groups. All content is presented in five languages – Lithuanian, English, German, French, and Russian.

Author – Dalia Kutavičienė, Jūratė Samulionytė, Monika Juozapavičiūtė, Kristina Buožytė

Camera – Donatas Buklys, Vitalijus Kiselius

Designers – Eglė Babilaitė, Jurga Kurtinaitienė, Arnoldas Blinkevičius

Producer – Teresa Zibolienė

Co-production with Concept events & media

RĖMEJAI

LIETUVOS KULTŪROS RĖMIMO FONDAS

LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS KULTŪROS MINISTERIJA

Feature film – in production

Planned to release in 2010

Teodore is as handsome as a Greek hero and supremely gifted. Success and love come too easily to this 30-year-old. He abandons his family, career, and friends in his quest for a true challenge. He has yet to find out that his greatest confrontation will be with himself.

Scriptwriter & Director – Dovilė Gasiūnaitė
Producer – Teresa Zibolienė

Co-production with

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Length:  63 min.

Format: DV Cam

“Behold Vilnius” does not pretend to be an academic treatment of the photographic history of Vilnius, nor does it present in an encyclopedic fashion all of the masters who have created photographic images of the city. It’s a film about love – a love for a city and for its citizens, which is why it consists of images of people engaged in various activities. At times we see these people, while at others they have just passed by, or are about to arrive – or else it’s the city’s walls that tell their tales of the physical contact, glances, and sighs they have taken in down through the centuries. In a word, this film – which is not a promotional film for tourists – is populated by images of a city that were shot by old masters and contemporary photographers; they are images of a city that is and has been lived in.

Scriptwriter:  Liudvika Pociūnienė
Director:  Petras Savickis
Editor:  Domantas Vildžiūnas
Producer: Teresa Zibolienė

Length: 61 min

Format: 35 mm

Awards:

December 2007 OLYMPIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE (Greece) – the Best Director award

September 2007 LUCAS 2007 ( Frankfurt/Main) award – FICC Laudable Mention

In Crow Lake, the four boys find shelter from the rules imposed by adults in a derelict ex-Soviet military base located alongside a NATO air base. It has become no-man’s-land; bygone military secrets lie buried beneath its bunkers and hangars as modern fighter-jets fly overhead.  The children proclaim the territory their ‘Freedom Zone’: a place where no one can inhibit them. The boys build their own hang-glider in one of the abandoned hangars and prepare for the day they will fly it. Meanwhile, an odd vagabond seeks shelter in no-man’s-land. The boys dub him ‘The Bum’ and brazenly drive him out of the ‘Freedom Zone’. A ‘territorial war’ is declared and the ensuing conflict reveals the children’s differing characters and callings.

Cast:

Dominykas Šagunevičius
Valentinas Masalskis
Paulius Smaliukas
Augustas Juozapavičius
Rapolas Tamuliūnas

Scriptwriters - Inesa Kurklietytė,Veera Tyhtila, Are Nikkinen, Paulius Arlauskas
Director – Inesa Kurklietytė
Director of photography – Dmitrij Gribanov
Producer – Teresa Zibolienė

Co-production with Concept events & media

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Creative documentary

In 2009, Vilnius has been tasked with fulfilling the role of European Capital of Culture, which is why the city needs to be concerned with showcasing its cultural spirit – particularly the one that is less commercial. Vilnius has been the source of inspiration for painters, writers, musicians, and actors. The winds of twentieth century swept many of these artists to other corners of the earth; others remained in their native city, giving themselves to their art, although they were, frequently, only able to share their creations with their closest friends. Memoirs of the period appearing in our day abound with the echoes of that cultural milieu; unreleased archives of photographs and amateur films from the Soviet period, however, are still gathering dust. Witnesses to that era are still with us, although their numbers are now dwindling.

Scriptwriter – Liudvika Pociūnienė
Director – Petras Savickis
Editor – Eimantas Belickas
Producer – Teresa Zibolienė

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Plakatas

LIETUVOS KULTŪROS RĖMIMO FONDAS

The cycle is comprised of the best surviving examples of Lithuanian monasteries that were founded between the XV and XVII centuries. Most of them were closed by the tsarist authorities in the mid- XIX century but survived as important spiritual and cultural centres until today. The film highlights a few aspects that are important to our understanding of the subject such as the historical narrative of the order and the foundation of the monastery. It deals with the historical particularities of the orders, their popularity in Lithuania, the history of the monastery‘s foundation and construction, the valuables contained therein (which reveal the specific character of each order) and the historical changes made to the monastry complex (such as reconstructions, closures and losses). Furthermore, the present situation of each monastery is discussed. The specific character of each of  the monasteries is revealed through the film‘s images and interviews with scientists (historians, anthropologists, art historians etc.), and the directors of the monasteries.

Scriptwriters – Dalia Klajūmienė, Tojana Račiūnaitė, Rūta Janonienė, Liudas Jovaiša
Directors – Valdas Babaliauskas, Liutauras Kontrimas
Camera – Dainius Gucevičius, Audrius Zelenius, Vytas Plytnikas
Producer – Teresa Zibolienė