Dominiks Jarmakovics holds a degree in Audiovisual arts and MBA. Having different managerial experience in projects across the creative industry – festivals, music concerts, contemporary art events, dance performances, for the past 5 years he has focused on the compelling nature of audiovisual arts. Even though the first self-produced feature Despair (dir. Karlis Lesins, 2020) was released just recently, Dominiks work is associated with many projects, such as Invisible (dir. Ignas Jonynas, 2019), Christmas in the Jungle (dir. Jaak Kilmi, 2020), The Year Before the War (dir. Davis Simanis, 2021) and others, where he joined as Associate Producer, Co-Producer, Production Manager, Line Producer or Production Coordinator.

Kārlis Lesiņš represents the new generation of Baltic directors, and this movement can be observed in his work. Just recently he released his first feature, Despair (2020), and is finishing work on his second full-length documentary Nord Express (2020). This project has been featured in a previous edition of Ex Oriente. He has already been awarded the Latvian National Film Award “Lielais Kristaps” for his work – short fiction film Converts (2016) as the Best Student Short, and short documentary Grandfather’s Father (2017) – as Best Debut.