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Lina Luzyte
Profession:
Writer
Country:
Lithuania
In 2012 Lina Lužytė has completed her MA in Film Directing studies in the Lithuanian National Film School (previously LMTA), where she is teaching now Film Directing and Directing of Actors to MA students.
Ever since her graduation, Lina has participated in many film workshops such as Torino Film Lab, LES IS MORE, EKRAN+, MidPoint TV Launch, EUREKA SERIES, Ex Oriente Film and other. Lina has done NIPKOW residency program in Berlin and Pop Up Residency in Paris.
Lina is working both - in fiction and documentary fields. In most of her films she portrays antiheroes as heroes this way provoking the concepts of what is ‘right’ and ‘good’ leaving open endings. A special kind of dark and awkward humour are signature to Lina's cinema.
Lina’s graduation short comedy “It Would Be Splendid, Yet…” about 90s in Lithuania, was awarded in many film festivals. Later, Lina went to Belarus to shoot IGRUSHKI, a documentary about toy makers chased after by militia, that won The Best Documentary Film Award at International Documentary Film Festival CineDOC Tbilisi. In 2016 Lina shot her first feature “Together For Ever”, in which she posits the family as the primary social unit to thematize communication gridlock as a diagnosis of today’s society, that premiered in Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In 2020 she’s completed her second feature “The Castle”, which tells a story of a 13-
year-old Lithuanian girl and her family soon after they’ve immigrated to Ireland alongside many other Easter Europeans. Since 2010 Lina is also a part of two German documentary projects called “199 Little Heroes” and “Girls don’t cry”, within which she films short documentaries about
hardships children and youngsters have to deal with all around the world. In 2022 Lina has finished her documentary “BLUE/RED/DEPORT,” that portrays an Afghan filmmaker living in the biggest refugee camp in Europe, which premiered in Thessaloniki International Film Festival and had its theatrical release in Germany. In 2023 Lina has collaborated with a renowned Lithuanian philosophy professor Nerijus Milerius and co-wrote and co-directed a feature JOHATSU about disappearance in the times of mass surveillance, which will premier in this year’s PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Critics’ Selection.
Currently Lina is developing KOPEK, a feature dramedy on an impoverished Lithuanian society, and a seven-episode detective TV series on LGBTQIA+ topics.
Apart from arthouse projects, Lina is also doing commissioned works and advertisement for television.
Also, Lina curates cinema retrospectives, her last being a retrospective on Peter Watkins.
Lina has also directed short DANCE + CITY films on contemporary dance and architecture that were commissioned and partly supported by French ARTE and are travelling now around festivals.
Lina has consulted scripts in development within the framework of Lithuanian Film School, outside of it and for the past year Lina is an expert in Lithuanian National Film Center evaluating both Lithuanian and foreign applications for feature and short films.
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