The film will be a cinematic poem to be written using light that shone some 60-50 years ago. It will be a recalling of strange memories through exposed photo negatives from 1968-78 by an anonymous photographer, found in a dustbin.
Type of work: Fiction film
Stage: In production
Looking for: Friends
Contacts: laila.pakalnina@inbox.lv
Laila Pakalniņa graduated from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), Department of Film Direction, in 1991. A director and scriptwriter of 32 documentaries, 5 shorts, and 6 fiction features, altogether she has 43 films, 2 children, 1 husband, 1 dog, and 2 bicycles. And many ideas for new films. Her films have been screened in official programmes at Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rome, Tallinn, and other international festivals, where they have won numerous awards.
Agne Skane has worked in the film industry for about 20 years in feature film, documentaries, music videos, and commercial projects. She has also joined various cultural projects production. Since 2014 she has been a line producer at the VFS Films studio, working on several award-winning documentary projects, music videos, live-action shorts, and feature projects. Starting in September 2022, Agne has joined the team of one of the most experienced and artistic animation studios in Latvia Atom Art, to take on a new professional challenge in the field of producing artistic animation projects for children and adults. Still, in order not to lose the professional skills for live-action ‘’field work’’, time by time she manages to be involved in exciting non-animation projects as an independent line producer.