Vytautas Katkus (born 3 September 1991) is a

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n film director,

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, and screenwriter.

Biography

Vytautas Katkus was born on 3 September 1991, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He graduated from the

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a state-supported conservatory that trains students in music, theatre, and multimedia arts. History Composer Juozas Naujalis founded a music school in 1919 in Kaunas. This ...

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 Orrizonti program. After several collaborations as a cinematographer and cameraman with producer

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 l ...

and M-Films, he directed his third short film, ''

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'', in 2022, produced by M-Films, which was selected in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival. Vytautas Katkus is currently developing his first feature film, '' The Visitor'', with screenwriter Marija Kavtaradzė and producer

, a second collaboration with M-films and other international partners like Totem Films (France). On each of his projects as a director, Vytautas Katkus had assistant director Robertas Nevecka.

Filmography

Director

Cinematographer

Awards

Accolades

References

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Vytautas Katkus on Cannes' Semaine de la Critique program
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