Lithuanian Documentary at the Sheffield Doc/Fest
11 June, 2011. Documentary by Simona Žemaitytė „Born in USSR“ (Lithuania, Turkey, 2010, producer Ieva Buzinskaitė) has been selected for the Sheffield Doc/Fest and will be screened on the 11 June, 1pm at the Odeon Cinema, Doc/EU strand. The film also competes for the Student Doc Award, judged by the Vice Magazine’s head of post production, Al Brown; architect Funsho Parrott; Channel 4′s Ravi Amaratunga; BBC ‘Storyville”s Shanida Scotland and filmmaker Will Woodward. The animated allegory tells the story about children of the USSR who came up with a secret plan of how to find out what was behind their hills and borders.
The filmography of the young filmmaker Simona Žemaitytė currently includes 5 films: All about beauty (2010), Exit (2010), Deported (2009), Alice in Murderland (2008) and Sinnerman (2008). The filmmaker says she is more interested to produce the documentaries based on ideas rather than stories, films that would be consistent in content, form and aestehtics. She is also interested in mixed media projects and online documentaries. More about her work: http://simonazemaityte.wordpress.com/
Doc/Fest is a film festival, industry session programme and market place, offering pitching opportunities, discussion panels and in-depth filmmaker masterclasses, as well as a wealth of inspirational documentary films from across the globe. Doc/Fest is a good place to meet sectors of the whole of the British documentary industry under one roof. The delegate list of over 2000 includes documentary and factual producers, directors, buyers, commissioners and distributors.
More about the film: http://sheffdocfest.com/films/show/5122
Contact of the producer Ieva Buzinskaitė
buzass@yahoo.com
+370 61330254
