Boarding House at a Manor

Mini-series follow the life of a family of city intellectuals during the course of one summer in the 1920s, who are unexpectedly given a remote manor-house with all its unusual inhabitants and have to decide what to do with the dilapidated property. Exciting and comic events unfold over eight episodes as the budding writer Anšlavs Eglītis, together with his brother Vidvuds, father Viktors and father’s wife Hilda, begin the restoration of the manor, while at the same time decide to open a boarding house. Boarding house at the manor ultimately becomes the crossroads of the neighborhood, a ghost of the past, and a meeting point and summer stage of the locals and the visiting city intellectuals.

Type of work: Mini-series
Stage: Pre-production
Produced by: Inese Boka-Grūbe, Gints Grūbe (Mistrus Media)
Looking for: sales agents and distributors

Representives

Marta Elīna Martinsone

Director

Marta Elīna Martinsone is a film and theater director. She has created and co-created five independent performances, directed three short films and her graduation film Viestur Kairish Comes Out of the Woods (2018) has received the National film award for Best Student film. Her debut feature film Lame-os (2021) received the National film award for Best Debut. She also directs music videos and works as a script consultant and writer.

Inese Boka-Grūbe

Producer

Inese Boka-Grūbe is a partner and producer at the Latvian film production company Mistrus Media, working in the production field since 2005 on feature documentaries, fiction films co-productions and service production projects. Inese is also a PhD student at the Latvian Academy of Culture, research field – reception of historical films. Member of ACE Producers and EAVE Networks, Member of the European Film Academy. Recently released films include feature drama January (2022) by Viesturs Kairišs awarded the Best International Narrative at the Tribeca Film Festival 2022 and Natural Light (2021) by Dénes Nagy, awarded the Silver Bear for the Best Director at Berlinale 2021.

Mistrus Media

Production Company

Mistrus Media, established in 2000, is one of the most experienced Latvian film production companies with strong reflections on historical and current social political themes. In recent years, the film studio has cooperated with a number of countries (producing with Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia, Russia, Portugal, Serbia), working both on complex joint productions of international films and providing professional services to foreign companies shooting their films in Latvia.

In 2022, in honor of Cannes’ 75th anniversary Screen International selected Mistrus Media as one of the 75 independent European production companies actively engaged in 2022 in the origination, development and production of feature films, working with other co-production partners to create works for arthouse audiences and the global festival circuit. A few noteworthy co-production titles include: feature drama January (2022) by Viesturs Kairišs that won the Best International Narrative at the Tribeca Film Festival 2022, Natural Light (2021) by Dénes Nagy, a minority co-production, selected for the Berlin International Film Festival, awarded the Silver Bear for the Best Director, In the Dusk (2020) by Sharunas Bartas, a minority co-production, selected for the Cannes 2020.