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Kristina Buozyte
Born in Lithuania in 1982, ristina Buožytė graduated with a Master degree in Film and TV Directing from Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy (2008).
Kristina is a young directress who got cinematic practice in doing short movies, music videos, participating in different workshops and seminars ("INYOP" – interactive film and game workshop in Prague, Check Republick; "Tranzit Zero" – scriptwriting workshop in Karosta, Latvia; permanent participant in international student film workshop "SMS" – Summer Media Studio, Lithuania) and working as a script supervisor on different film productions ("Diringas" dir. I. Miškinis; "The lake of Crows" dir. I. Kurklietytė; "Ice kiss" Knut Eric Jensen, etc).
Was gaining film experience in Sweden (exchange studies where both with Swedish students made an independent gay theme movie "Red Cottage") and Spain (internship in a production company "Eleven dreams" where worked in development of "Eurosexuality" project – television documentary that investigates culture, society and sexuality issues in European countries).
Kristina was noticed for her short movie "Change The Record", 2005.
Her first feature "The Collectress" participated in more than 30 film festivals – Karlovy Vary, Pusan, San Paulo, Valencia, Meinheim, Cottbuss, Cairo among the others and won The Best Movie Award in Lithuanian Silver Crane Awards (2008); The Best Director Award in Russian film festival "Kinoshock" (2008).
Currently Kristina is working on her second feature "Aurora".
Bruno Samper
Scriptwriter, journalist, also interested in audiovisual art, involved in inventing and developing video-games. Graduated from Arts and Semiology at Aix en Provence's University. He's also a founding writer of daily online paper panoplie.org , where he serves as artistic director and editor. Over the years has been involved in number of workshops and given many lectures on audiovisual arts; his works have been exhibited and awarded both in France and abroad.
