New faces: the 26th Summer Media Studio 2024 brings together creators from Lithuania and around the world

Facing the shortest night of the year, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LAMT) together with the Audiovisual Arts Industry Incubator (AMII) gathered young filmmakers from all over the world to the 26th edition of the International Film Workshop “Summer Media Studio 2024” in Pervalka!

This year, participants from 11 countries. The organisers are very happy to see a real Neringian, cameraman Adomas Barkauskas, among this year’s motley group of participants. The selected filmmakers will participate in the project for two weeks, from 23 June to 6 July. Throughout the project, the participants will deepen their theoretical and practical knowledge, and will work closely with each other and with experienced teachers, who are always ready to share the subtleties of the art of filmmaking and are ready to help. In order to cover each area of film production more and more, each year the Summer Media Studio delves deeper into a different area of the industry, and this year’s theme, “Script Mastery”, gives participants the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the cinematic story and its fulfilment by turning the urban and natural areas of Neringa into film sets.

The participants have already received lectures and shared their knowledge and experience from unique filmmakers, who have also come from all over the world: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jonathan Tammuz (Canada/UK), screenwriter and director Damià Serra Cauchetiez (Spain, Catalonia), Indiana University screenwriting professor Susan Kelly (USA), producer and professor Anna Huth (Poland), producer Paul Nethercott (USA).

This year the participants have been divided into 8 film production teams and are already in the process of filming for the shooting days. The participants are making great use of the existing opportunities in the area, interacting and collaborating with local residents, entrepreneurs and cultural representatives, as well as diving in the places that have become symbols of Neringa. So if you see groups making films on the island of Neringa with laughter and great ideas, don’t be scared, they are the Summer Media Studio participants. And already on 5 July at 6 pm. On 5 and 5 pm, at the Liudvikas Reza Cultural Centre in Juokrante, you will have the opportunity to see films made by young artists. More information: www.summermediastudio.lt.

The organisers of the project are the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Audiovisual Arts Industry Incubator.

Project sponsors and partners: Neringa City Municipality, Creative Europe MEDIA Bureau, Erasmus+, Klaipėda City Municipality, State Fund for Studies, Lithuanian Film Centre, AVAKA, LAMT Student Representation, VilniusTECH, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Student Representation, Latvian Academy of Culture, Tallinn University, Beira Interior University, Neringa – Culture Island, Karaliaus Mindaugas Vocational Training Centre, Studio Nethercott, Cine Wave, Klaipėda Film Office, Liudvikas Reza Culture Centre, Klaipėda Youth Theatre, Taško Theatre.