The Lithuanian Oscar Committee has decided that Alantė Kavaitė’s film The Summer of Sangaile (Sangailės vasara) will be Lithuania’s official candidate for the Oscar-nominations as Best Foreign-Language Feature.
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The Lithuanian Film Centre has granted €390,378 of state funding for 14 national film projects. Nine projects – including one interactive project – were granted financial assistance for development, and five film projects – two features, one documentary, one short animation, and one short fiction fi...
The 15th T-Mobile New Horizons film festival opens in Wrocław on July 23. Among other films it will feature the most distinct Lithuanian films created from 1959 to 2015. The special film programme Focus on Lithuania includes a record number of 30 features tracing the complex history and culture of t...
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 50,000 to the film Deadweight directed by Ignas Miškinis. The film is produced by Tremora (Lithuania) and coproduced by Film Angels Productions (Latvia), reports the Lithuanian Film Centre.
Vilnius Airport has launched an airport movie theatre Film Box LT. Now passengers waiting for their flights can spend time watching films by Lithuanian filmmakers free of charge.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are considering establishment of a three-country Baltic fund that would support joint film and television production.
The Lithuanian Film Centre (LKC) granted EUR 32,700 of state funding for the pre-production of two films. This concludes the first competition for state funding of 2015, the Centre said in a report.
A film alumnus from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham, UK, has been given a welcome boost after the Lithuanian government agreed to invest €45,000 in his latest production.
Lithuanian young actress Aistė Diržiūtė is among a small group of recognized up-and-coming European performers who were honoured this year at the prestigious Berlinale Palast with the European Shooting Stars Award, the Lithuanian Film Centre informs.
Lithuania continues to hold the leading position in the region in terms of the market share held by domestic films, which grew from 16.49% in 2013 to 23% in 2014.
The tax incentive for film production that came into force last year is already showing results, but the breakthrough is to be expected this year, said the Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC), the institution in charge of the administration of the incentive. The tax instrument may attract €15m worth of fil...
Lithuanian filmmaker Alantė Kavaitė has won World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival for her film The Summer of Sangailė. The film had its world première at Sundance and was screened as the day one film, the Lithuanian Film Centre reports.
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 220,000 to the film Seneca's Day directed by the Lithuanian director Kristijonas Vildžiūnas.
