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Marija Razgutė
Marija Razgutė (born 26 June 1985) is a Lithuanian film producer and the founder of the production company M-Films. Biography Marija Razgutė was born on 26 June 1985 in Klaipėda, Lithuania. She initially studied business management but later switched to a master's degree in cultural management and cultural policy at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, which she completed in 2010. During her studies, she produced the short film ''Suicide (film), Suicide'' directed by Mindaugas Sruogius in 2008, which won the Sidabrinė gervė, Silver Crane Award for the Best Student Short Film from the Lithuanian Film Academy. In 2008, Marija Razgutė founded the production company M-Films production, M-Films. She initially produced short films and later developed Lithuanian films and international co-productions (Spain, France, Sweden, Germany, Georgia (country), Georgia, Czech Republic). She collaborated with directors such as Karolis Kaupinis, Andrius Blaževičius, Marija Kavtaradzė, and Vyt ...
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Klaipėda
Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capital of Klaipėda County, as well as the only major seaport in the country – the Port of Klaipėda, which is also the busiest port in the Baltic States. The city has a complex recorded history, partially due to the combined regional importance of the usually ice-free port at the mouth of the river . It was located in Lithuania Minor, and the State of the Teutonic Order and Duchy of Prussia under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, then the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, within which it was the northernmost big city until it was placed under French occupation in 1919. From 1923, the city was part of Lithuania until its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1939, and after World War II it was part of the Lithuanian Soviet ...
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Georgia (country)
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region on the coast of the Black Sea. It is located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia, and is today generally regarded as part of Europe. It is bordered to the north and northeast by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers an area of . It has a Demographics of Georgia (country), population of 3.7 million, of which over a third live in the capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city, Tbilisi. Ethnic Georgians, who are native to the region, constitute a majority of the country's population and are its titular nation. Georgia has been inhabited since prehistory, hosting the world's earliest known sites of winemaking, gold mining, and textiles. The Classical antiquity, classical era saw the emergence of several kingdoms, such as Colchis and Kingdom of Iberia, Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the early fourth centu ...
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European Film Academy
The European Film Academy is a group of European film director, filmmakers who come together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988. Every year, the European Film Academy honors films and filmmakers with the European Film Awards. The ceremony takes place every even year in a different European city and every odd year in Berlin. History The European Film Academy was founded in 1989 under the name ''European Cinema Society'' by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, along with forty other filmmakers from across Europe, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Claude Chabrol, Dušan Makavejev, István Szabó, and Wim Wenders. Bergman served as the first president, and Wenders was appointed chairman. In 1990, the organization was renamed the European Film Academy and registered as a non-profit association. In 1996, Wim Wenders succeeded Bergman as president, and Nik Powell, a British producer, was elected chairman. Mike Downey, an Irish-B ...
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Association Of Independent Producers Of Lithuania
Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers * Non profit association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose without any profit interest *Collaboration, the act of working together Association in various fields of study *Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts. * Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures *Association (chemistry) *Association (ecology), a type of ecological community *Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur *Association (object-oriented programming), defines a relationship between classes of objects *Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concep ...
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2022 Cannes Film Festival
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival is a film festival that took place from 17 to 28 May 2022. French actor Vincent Lindon served as jury president for the main competition. French actress Virginie Efira hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for a second time with the comedy-drama film '' Triangle of Sadness.'' The Honorary Palme d'Or was awarded to American actors Forest Whitaker and Tom Cruise, the later on short notice during the international premiere of '' Top Gun: Maverick''. The official poster for the festival was designed as a homage to ''The Truman Show'' (1998), the film was also selected for the ''Cinéma de la Plage'' section. The festival opened with '' Final Cut'' by Michel Hazanavicius. The edition also marked the festival's return to its full spectator capacity after the disruption in its previous two year's editions due to COVID-19 restrictions in France. Juries Main ...
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Cherries
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus ''Prunus'', as in "Ornamental plant, ornamental cherry" or "cherry blossom". Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation, although ''Prunus avium'' is often referred to specifically by the name "wild cherry" in the British Isles. Botany True cherries ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus'' contains species that are typically called cherries. They are known as true cherries and distinguished by having a single winter Axillary bud, bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. Prunus serrula, ''P. ser ...
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry. The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. The 2nd Academy Awards, second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 25th Academy Awards, 1953 ceremony was the first one televised. It is the oldest of the EGOT, four major annual American entertainment awards. Its counterparts—the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and ...
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Nova Lituania
''Nova Lituania'' is a 2019 Lithuanian film directed and written by Karolis Kaupinis. The black-and-white drama film deals with inter-war paranoia, nationalism and the identity crises of the nations occupied by the former USSR. The film was inspired by a real-life Lithuanian interwar political theorist Kazys Pakštas and his works on Dausuva. It was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Oscar Academy Awards . Synopsis During the interwar period, Feliksas Gruodis, a Lithuanian geography professor played by Aleksas Kazanavičius, tries to convince the government to establish a backup state overseas, in order to save their country from ruin. However, the idea is mostly mocked and opposed. Still, there is hope in the secret support from the elderly prime minister, portrayed by Vaidotas Martinaitis. The men debate who they should save – others or themselves? Cast *Aleksas Kazanavičius as Feliksas Gruodis *Vaidotas Martinaitis a ...
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Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The festival was established in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. The festival moved to nearby Park City, Utah, in 1981 and was renamed the US Film and Video Festival. It was renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. From its inception through 2025, the festival took place every January in Utah. In March 2025, it was ann ...
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Cineuropa
Cineuropa is an online information portal dedicated to the promotion of European cinema. It publishes daily news, reviews, interviews, and industry reports and maintains a database of information. It is available in four languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish. It is co-funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union. '' El País'' described Cineuropa as "an online media outlet that is very popular in the industry." History Cineuropa was founded in 2002 as an online cinema information portal on the initiative of Italia Cinema, an agency of Italy's Ministry of Culture created for the promotion of Italian films abroad. Cineuropa is co-funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Other financial partners include MiC Ministero della Cultura - Direzione generale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Sw ...
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Vytautas Katkus
Vytautas Katkus (born 3 September 1991) is a Lithuanian film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Biography Vytautas Katkus was born on 3 September 1991, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master's degree in cinematography and directing in 2014, and began working as a camera assistant on around twenty films and commercials in Lithuania and abroad. Vytautas Katkus has twice won the award for Best Young Director of photography from the Lithuanian Association of Directors of Photography, of which he has been a member since 2016. In 2019, his first short film '' Collective Gardens'' was selected for the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week, and his second short film ''Places'' premiered in 2020 at the Venice Film Festival as part of the Orizzonti program. After several collaborations as a cinematographer and cameraman with producer Marija Razgutė and M-Films, he directed his third short film, ''Cherries'', in 20 ...
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Marija Kavtaradzė
Marija Kavtaradzė (born 3 June 1991) is a Lithuanian film director and screenwriter. Biography Marija Kavtaradzė studied filmmaking at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre from 2010 to 2014. During this period, she directed five short films, three of which were selected for the Vilnius International Film Festival (Kino pavasaris). In 2016, Marija Kavtaradze co-wrote the feature film '' The Saint'', directed by Andrius Blaževičius and produced by Marija Razgutė (M-Films). The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2016. In collaboration with director Andrius Blaževičius and Teklė Kavtaradzė, she co-wrote the 2021 feature film '' Runner'', directed by Andrius Blaževičius and produced by Marija Razgutė. The film had its premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2021. She wrote and directed her first feature film, '' Summer Survivors'', in 2018, also produced by Marija Raz ...
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