- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Lithuania
Beinoriūtė Giedrė
15 Young by Young
A multimedia documentary project consisting of a series of fresh, colourful insider point-of-view short stories on the present-day life of young people, linked by animated episodes and directed by 15 young and talented filmmakers from the 15 republics formerly annexed by the USSR.
The Field of Magic
Life in the dump: A poem to an unknown tribe. Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year's work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
Grandpa and Grandma
The documentary - animation is based on a life story of director's grandparents who were exiled to Siberia by Soviets in 1948. The severe period of Lithuanian history is being told in a personal way, in genre of a fairytale. The story teller is a little girl, who sees the events in her own child way. The visual basis of the film consists of extant family photographs together with the national archive material and animation inserts.
Conversations on Serious Topics
Conversations on Serious Topics is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers aged from 8 to 16, with a special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal an image of the modern world – at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. “The world is people.” ”Don’t you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing...”
A multimedia documentary project consisting of a series of fresh, colourful insider point-of-view short stories on the present-day life of young people, linked by animated episodes and directed by 15 young and talented filmmakers from the 15 republics formerly annexed by the USSR.
The Field of Magic
Life in the dump: A poem to an unknown tribe. Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year's work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
Grandpa and Grandma
The documentary - animation is based on a life story of director's grandparents who were exiled to Siberia by Soviets in 1948. The severe period of Lithuanian history is being told in a personal way, in genre of a fairytale. The story teller is a little girl, who sees the events in her own child way. The visual basis of the film consists of extant family photographs together with the national archive material and animation inserts.
Conversations on Serious Topics
Conversations on Serious Topics is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers aged from 8 to 16, with a special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal an image of the modern world – at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. “The world is people.” ”Don’t you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing...”
Graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Film and TV department with a MA in audiovisual arts in 2001. Since 1997 directed and wrote eight fiction and documentary short films and worked as an assistant director with the established Lithuanian film makers Šarūnas Bartas (Seven Invisible People) and Arūnas Matelis (Before Flying Back to The Earth). Since 2004, member of the Lithuanian Filmmakers Union. In 2006 with colleagues established a film studio “Monoklis“. Since 2007, teaching script writing and TV directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater.
CITY OF TROLLEYBUSES (doc., 28 min, 2002); EXISTENCE, (fiction, 23 min, VG studio, 2003); VULKANOVKA. AFTER THE GRAND CINÉMA (doc., 50 min, VG studio, 2005); GRANDPA AND GRANDMA (animated documentary, 30 min, VG studio, 2007), THE BALCONY (fiction, 48 min, Monoklis, 2008); 7 CONVERSATIONS ON SERIOUS TOPICS ((doc., 70 min, 2010 – in development)
Monoklis
Naugarduko 34
LT- 03228 Vilnius
Naugarduko 34
LT- 03228 Vilnius
VG Studio
Suvalku g. 7-12
Nemenčines pl.4
LT-10102 Vilnius
Suvalku g. 7-12
Nemenčines pl.4
LT-10102 Vilnius