Summer Media Studio

Each year SMS is dedicated to a different aspect of audiovisual industry. SMS 2021 is inviting the participants to explore location scouting curiosities in the unique landscape of Neringa and Klaipėda. There are no limits on film genre - the inspiration is all that matters!

Workshop surroundings offers wide selection of locations, from sandy beaches by the Baltic sea and small villages by the lagoon to truly urbanistic streets of Klaipėda or historical wibe of the city's oldtown with it's neoclassic architecture.

Jonathan Tammuz

is a British-Canadian film director, best known for directing the short film The Childeater and the feature film Rupert's Land. The Childeater was a shortlisted Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, and Rupert's Land was a Genie Award nominee for Best Picture at the 19th Genie Awards, with Tammuz also nominated for Best Director.

Tammuz is also the director of Stephen-Tammuz Productions, which develops and produces feature films, TV programmes, commercials and corporate videos. His expertise on feature films helped to develop films for tens of SMS participants in the previous years.

Birutė Kapustinskaitė

is a Lithuanian screenwriter and lecturer. She works on various film, theatre and audiovisual projects, including full-features Sasha Was Here (2020), The People We know Are Confused (2020), theatre piece Terapijos and audio-series Šiaurės miestelis. Her piece Terapijos received Golden Stage Cross (2018). Kapustinskaite actively presents her work in international workshops, festivals and conferences. Currently, she is the head of the LMTA Film Dramaturgy courseand teaches at Vilnius University.

Audrius Stonys

is a Lithuanian documentary filmmaker. He is recipient of the European Film Award for the documentary film Earth of the Blind in 1992 and the Lithuanian National Prize in 2002. Since 1989 he has created 13 documentaries and one short fiction film. His film The Flight over Lithuania or 510 Seconds of Silence co-created with Arūnas Matelis was well received at the Expo 2000. Stonys is a member of the European Documentary Network and European Film Academy with retrospectives of his work shown in Switzerland, France, Russia, Israel, the Czech Republic, Japan, and throughout Lithuania.

Mantautas Krukauskas

is a composer and sound artist, teacher at the Department of Composition of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, as well as Head of Music Innovation Studies Centre. His compositions, including chamber music, audiovisual and sound art works, music for theatre productions have been performed in Lithuania, Austria, Germany, France, Canada, USA, and other countries. Mantautas Krukauskas has been actively involved in various organizational activities, including project coordination, event organizing, participation in international artistic, research and educational programmes. His interests comprise interdisciplinarity, creativity, music and media technologies, and a synergy of different aesthetic and cultural approaches.