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Writer, director, animator Signe Baumane details her journey from working in Latvia to making a career in New York, illuminating the key differences of making films between the two countries, and her source of the particular resilience needed for independent filmmaking in New York.<\/p>\n
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Signe Baumane is an independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 17 award-winning animated shorts. Her first animated feature\u00a0Rocks In My Pockets<\/i>\u00a0premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014 where it received a FIPRESCI Prize. The film went on to over 130 international festivals. It opened theatrically in the U.S. through Zeitgeist Films.\u00a0Signe’s second animated feature\u00a0My Love Affair With Marriage<\/i> (2022) tells the story of a spirited young woman’s quest for perfect love and lasting marriage. It premiered in June 2022 at Tribeca Festival and has screened at over 110 festivals winning 25 awards. It was nominated by European Film Academy as Best Animated Feature.\u00a0She is working on her third animated feature\u00a0Karmic Knot<\/i>, set to premiere in 2028.<\/p>\n
Signe is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in Film for New York Foundation for the Arts. She has a degree in Philosophy from Moscow State University.<\/p>\n","links":false}],"participants_title":"","participants":false,"forum_project_parent_select":[40834],"categories_slugs":"","original_title":"Keynote speaker: Signe Baumane","director":"","country":[],"year":"","festival_year":"2023","runtime":"","languages":[],"sub_languages":[],"screenings_merged":false}