Description
On November 23 at 10:00 a.m., the Northern Lights Film Festival, together with the CreateCulture Space in Vilnius, is hosting "speed meetings" between Belarusian filmmakers and Lithuanian film industry professionals. During 20-minute private conversations at separate tables, Belarusian participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of Lithuanian directors, producers, camera operators, editors, and other film industry experts. The "speed meetings" format is widespread among the industry platforms of major film festivals and provides an opportunity to quickly pitch a project, exchange contacts for further cooperation, ask questions, and get a quick consultation.
Language of the event: English
Participants
Romas Zabarauskas
Romas Zabarauskas established himself as a provocative Baltic storyteller with a politically engaging and visually lush fims. Zabarauskas holds a BA in film (2009–2012) from Saint-Denis University (Paris) with an exchange year at Hunter College (New York) and an MA in communication (2014–2016) from KSU (Vilnius). He is currently working on the post-production of his fifth feature, the queer thriller The Activist. Romas is based in Vilnius with his fiancé, Kornelijus.
Silvija Vilkaitė
Silvija Vilkaitė is a film editor and editing consultant. She is known for Nova Lituania (2019), The Saint (2016), and Slow (2023). Silvija finished her Bachelor's in Directing as well as her Master's studies in Director of Editing and applied her knowledge throughout the myriad of projects spanning from features, documentaries, and shorts to music videos and advertisements. Silvija is fluent in visual storytelling. The tales she helped create knew no barriers, as they were heard and appreciated as much by locals as well as international audiences and critics alike. With more than a decade of experience in the visual medium, Silvia can translate the director's message into cinematic language.
Darius Šilėnas
Darius Šilėnas graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with a Master's degree in Video Directing in 2015. Since 2011, he has been working as a freelance editor. In 2019, he started teaching at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2020, together with Vytautas Dambrauskas, he took his first course in cinema editing. Darius Šilėnas has worked on many Lithuanian film projects covering a wide range of genres, from feature films and documentaries to experimental cinema and concert visualizations. Darius has been nominated twice for the Silver Crane Awards in the Best Editor category (2020 and 2023). He has worked with directors such as Emilis Vėlyvis, Elena Kairytė, Ignas Jonynas, Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, Titas Laucius, Emilija Škarnulytė, Kęstutis Gudavičius, Justas Ramanauskas, Justinas Krisiūnas, Marius Kunigėnas, and Saulius Baradinskas. He has also worked as an assistant editor on joint foreign projects: the mini-series Tokyo Trial (Netflix) and the feature film Ashes in the Snow. Darius also edits music videos and TV commercials.
Rita Stanelyte
Rita Stanelyte is a producer of film marketing and communications, also known as Mata Hari Communications. Sha has an academic background in journalism and public relations and solid experience in the film industry as a press officer, salesperson, acquisitions manager, and distribution manager. She is organizing a film festival in Berlin, Litauisches Kino Goes Berlin, working at the NGO of emotional support in Vilnius, and helping young filmmakers to be seen at the festivals and in the local cinemas. Rita is an alumni of Locarno Summer Academy, the EAVE Marketing Workshop, and the "Belt and Road" program of Shanghai IFF. Stanelyte has served as a CICAE Jury member for Director's Fortnight in Cannes.