Summer Media Studio

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23 June - 5 July, 2021 | Pervalka, Neringa

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Participation

Registration for SMS 2021 is open!

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Deadline for applications is 20 May, 2021.

Selected participants of various audiovisual art backgrounds will be informed via e-mail no later than June 2, 2021.

Summer Media Studio will take place in Neringa, Lithuania on 23 June - 5 July, 2021. Selected students and young professionals must be able to participate during all days of the workshop.

Participation fee for each participant is 300 Euros.The cost covers accommodation and catering in Neringa, also travel from and to Vilnius.

Note: Due to sensitive situation regarding COVID-19 pandemic, all participants must test before coming to the workshop. Further details on testing will be provided to selected participants.

More information for participants traveling from abbroad can be found at National Public Health Center website.

Become a partner

Collaboration with other higher education institutions is important for us in order to improve experience exchange, the students get to know about various audiovisual schools work specifics, choose their possibilities for further mobility exchange, creative internships.

Become a part of the Summer Media Studio experience! We invite various Europe film schools to collaborate. For bigger groups (starting from 5 persons) discounts of participation fee are applied.

About the project

SMS (Summer Media Studio) is a collaboration platform for young professionals of the audiovisual arts industry, who are eager to gain international contacts, improve their professional skills while learning to work with new technologies, facing and analyzing the changes of the industry and will create an opportunities for future artistic initiatives.

The main SMS event – two-week residential workshop – is ran in the Lithuania’s seaside area Neringa. Established in 1999, young film professionals and film school students are welcome to attend the workshop for the 23rd time. Here they will have the possibility to explore the unique Curonian Spit locations and inspirations they hide, their applicability in various film genres and produce a short film.

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.

Neringa with its UNESCO-inscribed scenery is the elite seaside resort of Lithuania. It is an exceptional place of recreation with unique nature and specific culture, which inspired and continues to inspire artists throughout the world. It spans a narrow peninsula called the Curonian Spit, merely 2 kilometers wide and 98 kilometers long, with half of that length in Lithuania.

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Klaipėda is the third biggest city in Lithuania situated in the Western part of the country, just near the Baltic Sea. The city is the only ice-free sea port and the important economical, educational and transportation center in a country. The city offers a great range of locations: picturesque old town, industrial premises, Ship port and ferry terminals, Lithuanian Sea Museum and Dolphinarium... you name it!

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The whole workflow is carefully guided by the tutors: participants present pitching ideas and the tutors decide on which ones to be realized. Later on, all of the participants are divided in international teams of director, cinematographer, sound designer, producer, scriptwriter, and actors, they prepare for the shootings and go to the locations. After four days of hectic work, they sit by the computers and do the post production, write musical scores.

At the very last evening, final short films made by the participants will be screened. This is a truly special evening as they have an actual result which could be evaluated by themselves and the wide audience. Finally, the participants will have a feedback session on what aspects of the workflow they seek to develop further.

Each of the evening public film screenings will be held. Tutors will show their own movies or the ones that should be noted in the context of the workshop. These events will be open to the general public and will be followed up with discussions which will help to better absorb contents of the lectures, as well as learning about major industry stories that impact the ways of production. They will discuss the biggest industry changes and how the young filmmaker should adapt to it.

After the workshop each participant will receive 6 ECTS credits that are approved around higher education institutions worldwide.

Jonathan Tammuz

Director and Screenwriter, GB

Akvilė Gelažiūtė

Director, LT

Mantautas Krukauskas

Composer, LT

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.

Akvilė Gelažiūtė

is a Lithuanian documentary films director and lecturer. Her graduate film Demin: The Two Towers was awarded for the best Lithuanian Young Creator's Award. In 2019 Gelažiūtė has premiered with her debut full-lenth documentary Unseen Europe. Along with her creative work, she has been a long term coordinator for European Film Forum Scanorama New Baltic Cinema programme and coordinator as well as documentary course teacher for Skalvija Film Academy.

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.

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History

Summer Media Studio was originally established in 1999 by legendary Lithuanian film director and founder of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Film and TV Department Henrikas Šablevičius. Several years later the lead was handed over to film director and producer Inesa Kulklietytė who is running the project to this day. She has not only developed a successful and sustainable workshop design but also created an impressive international contacts network which allows to invite world-known industry professionals to share their knowledge with creators who are taking their baby steps in the industry.