Winners announced at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Armenia, Germany and Lithuania co-production “Aurora’s Sunrise” won the Best Animated Film award
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) established in 2007 are the region’s highest accolade in film where cinematic excellence shines. The Asia Pacific Screen Academy announced the winners at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) at a Gala Ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast, on November 11th evening. APSA celebrates cinematic storytelling that best reflects its cultural […]
The 20th European Film Forum Scanorama has begun!
The 20th European Film Forum Scanorama has begun and will last till 20th November! Yesterday was the opening of one of the largest and most prominent international cultural film events in Lithuania. This year the programme consists of 92 Feature films, 26 short films and 11 workshops and Q&A events. There are 12 categories in […]
The Lithuanian Government Allocates Funding to Support Film Industry
In response to COVID-19 virus, the Lithuanian Government has allocated additional resources of 2 m EUR to the Lithuanian film sector to support cinemas, new productions, distribution, individual filmmakers, TV and audiovisual content. The measure is implemented by the Lithuanian Film Centre, which is analysing the current situation in the film industry. The decision on […]
Vilnius International Short Film Festival: submit films for 2021
Vilnius International Short Film Festival is now inviting to submit films for the upcoming 14th edition and its two competition programmes – International and National. Filmmakers can submit fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrid genre films up to 30 min. which are completed after January 2019. Submission deadline: 31 July 2020. Vilnius International Short Film […]
Aerocinema: A Drive-In Movie Theatre Lands at Vilnius Airport
Vilnius, 29 April: For the first time in history, a drive-in cinema has been set up in an airport apron area, where planes are usually parked, unloaded, refuelled and boarded. The ‘Aerocinema – The Journey Begins’ project, which kicked off on Wednesday, April 29th at Vilnius International Airport and will run until the end of […]
Inside the Cinematic City Where Netflix’s Young Wallander Was Filmed
The Lithuanian capital of Vilnius has just collected another significant film title under its belt. Young Wallander, a new Netflix original series based on Henning Mankell’s best-selling novels about detective Kurt Wallander, came to life in, among other locations, Šeškinė—a residential neighborhood turned into the Swedish city of Malmö. According to the producers, Vilnius has […]
KFTV spotlight on Vilnius
KFTV Talks to international production figures on big projects from Netflix, HBO and Sky about why they’ve chosen to film in the Lithuanian capital. Vilnius, the capital of the small country of Lithuania, situated in northern Europe along the south-east shore of the Baltic sea, has moved into the spotlight since it doubled for 1980‘s […]
2020 the year of the pandemic – the most successful for the Film Tax Incentive
Even though 2020 will enter the pages of the history books as one of the most difficult years for the film industry, it was a record-breakingly successful year for the Film Tax Incentive for fostering film production which has been in place for eight years, the Lithuanian Film Centre says. Investments by production companies also […]
Bringing the second season of Young Wallander to life in Vilnius
Credits: Ahil After the astounding success of the first season of the Netflix original series ‘Young Wallander’, the international cast and crew have returned to Lithuania. The second season of the series will be wrapping up its production in Vilnius in a few short weeks, bringing the beloved character’s journey to our screens once more. […]
Maintaining Covid-19 safety protocol on film set (Practical implementation of safety protocols)
One of the leading Norwegian film production companies Maipo Film are working on the second season of State of Happiness / Lykkeland in Vilnius. Filming at the Lithuanian capital has begun in the beginning of March and will last until the end of April. The creators of this 8 part series are working in Vilnius […]