Purga will take us to winter of 1942-43 inside the Arctic Circle. The uninhabited island of Trofimovsk. At the Laptev Sea. The place chosen by soviet authority for deportation of many inhabitants of the occupied Baltic countries, Finland, Ukraine and other countries. On this harsh landscape man is just a speck, struggling to survive.
Stage of production: Post production
Genre: Documentary, animation
Producer: Giedre Burokaitė, Lauras Lučiūnas, Antanas Skučas
Antanas Skučas has been working in the field of animation since 2005. The debut film Childhood Diary was awarded the Lithuanian Film Academy Award in 2009. In 2015, he founded the film production company Tylus Kinas. In addition to his creative activities, he teaches students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Gintarė Valevičiūtė – Brazauskienė participates in the process of creation of various art projects as a creator of interdisciplinary art. Graduated from postgraduate art studies in art in Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA), Gintarė continues her academic, artistic activities – she teaches in the Photography, Animation and Media Arts Department. She is an active participant in its promotion of the potential uses of animation in expanded field, presents artistic creations at exhibitions and film festivals. Films and video projects directed by Gintarė have won awards at international film and media arts festivals. Her film Maskaradas (Masquerade) has been named the best Lithuanian film at the the international festival of moving images Next Festival. The short documentary God Created Everything but a Carpet was nominated for the Lithuanian Cinema Academy’s “Silver Crane” Award for Best Short Documentary Film. VAA exhibition hall Titanic exposition currated by Gintare in ARTVILNIUS’19, the 10th jubilee international art fair, was announced as “The Best ArtVilnius’19 Gallery”, “The Selected Gallery by Viewers”, and the presented artist won “The Best ArtVilnius’19 Young Artist” award.
In 2015, Lithuanian film producer Giedrė Burokaitė established a film production platform at the NGO “Meno avilys“. In 2020, she graduated from the Emerging Producer Workshop. Giedrė has produced a number of short films and a feature-length documentary Animus Animalis (a Story about People, Animals and Things) (dir. by Aistė Žegulytė), which premiered at DOK Leipzig (2018). The film received awards from the Lithuanian Film Academy in three categories, including Best Documentary film. In 2019, together with director-animator Robertas Nevecka, Giedrė founded the film production company Akis Bado. In 2022, a short animated film produced by Giedrė, Mora Mora (dir. Jurga Šeduikytė), was awarded the Silver Crane for Best Animation of the Year at the Lithuanian National Awards.
Film and TV show producer with a background in music and entertainment business. Lauras is seeking for new opportunities and ways to take TV and filming formats to the new heights.