- Director
Jurate Samulionyte
- Producer
Asta Valciukaite
- Production company
Kulturiniu projektu centras - CUMA projects
- Director of photography
Audrius Zelenius
- Editor
Egidijus Zaliapugas
- IDF Events
2011 East Silver
- Financial Support
Lithuanian Culture Support Foundation - 9300 euros
Shanghai Banzai
Sanxai Banzai, Lithuania, 2010, 25 min, Beta SP, Digi Beta, DVD, Human Rights, Personal View, Social Issues, Society
Shanghai Banzai is an ironic short documentary about an old and poor district nearby Vilnius city centre called Snipiskes, which is also known as Shanghai. Film exposes a paradoxical situation where countryside with its multicultural (Lithuanians, Russians, Poles, Romas) community exists in the very centre of Vilnius. The film also tries to find out the origin of the district’s nickname Shanghai. Film portraits inhabitants of Vilnius Shanghai, who have their own rules, loves, habits and sins. Most of them live in their past still remembering their youth. Now modern skyscrapers replace old wooden houses and nobody knows what the future holds for the people of Shanghai.
Director:
Jurate Samulionyte
Producer:
Asta Valciukaite
Director of photography:
Audrius Zelenius
Screenplay:
Jurate Samulionyte
Editor:
Egidijus Zaliapugas
Music:
Vygintas Kisevicius
Sound:
Martynas Tamulis
World Sales:
Asta Valciukaite
Languages:
Lithuanian, Russian
Subtitles:
English
Kulturiniu projektu centras - CUMA projects
V. Čarneckio str. 138-1
LT-11311 Vilnius, Lithuania
IFF Listapad 2011, Minsk, Belarus
Lubuskie Film Summer 2011, Poland
International Short Film Festival Curtocircuito 2011, Spain
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival 2010, Lithuania
Grand Prix -
European Film Forum Scanorama 2011, Lithiuania
Audience Award -
DocuDays 2011, Ukraine
European Documentary Film Festival Eurodok 2011, Norway
Mediawave Festival 2012, Hungary
Lithuanian Culture Support Foundation - 9300 euros