Armands Zacs is an emerging director with Youth Eternal being his debut feature film. Director / Screenwriter – is already known to the industry. He has directed several short films and documentaries, including Mothers and Others (co-directed with Liene Linde) which won the Latvian National Award “Lielais Kristaps” and the Best Documentary Director, FIPRESCI Award in 2017. In 2021, we produced his short film Resistance is Futile, which will be premiered at RIGA IFF this autumn.

Alise Gelze has been active as a film producer since 2006 and has produced both features and short films, which have been premiered at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale,  Rotterdam IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF,  Pusan IFF, etc.  She has co-produced films with countries like France, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, etc. Her most successful productions  are Oleg (2019) directed by Juris Kursietis which had its world premiere at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Mother I Love You (2013) directed by Janis Nords, which has received more than 15 international and national awards, including Berlinale – Generation KPlus International Jury prize for the Best Film, and Mellow Mud (2016) directed by Renars Vimba, which received Crystal Bear at Berlinale – Generation 14Plus.

Alise Gelze is a graduate of EAVE and ACE Producers, a member of the European Film Academy and  Film Producers Association of Latvia.