International workshop for film students and young professionals
Participation
The registration for SMS 2022 Is now open. Application deadline 10 May, 2022, 23:59 GMT+2
Register nowSelected participants of various audiovisual art backgrounds will be informed via e-mail no later than May 17, 2022.
Summer Media Studio will take place in Neringa, Lithuania on 23 June - 5 July, 2022. Selected students and young professionals must be able to participate during all days of the workshop.
Participation fee for each participant is 390 euros. The cost covers accommodation and catering in Neringa, also travel from and to Vilnius.
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 opportunity 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 24th 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 2022 is inviting the participants to explore the world of genre cinema. Applicants will be invited to choose a genre when presenting the idea for a film and each of the selected ideas will shoot a film of a different genre. The process will be guided and consulted by experienced industry professionals: film directors, screenwriters, editors, etc.
There are almost no rules or guidlines for the possible short film idea, except that it has to meet the guidlines of the selected genre and should be manageable to shoot in 3 days.
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 vibe of the city's oldtown with its 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, all 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 postproduction, 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.Gallery
Our team
SMS is lead by film director, lecturer Inesa Kurklietytė. She has been organizing the international creative workshop "Summer Media Studio" ever since 2001. Since 2013, Kurklietytė has been managing the Audiovisual Arts Industry Incubator, which has become the largest database of audiovisual arts education projects in the Baltic States.
Project coordinator Vaiva Martišauskaitė is theatre and audiovisual projects manager. She has been coordinating SMS from 2018 and additionally working with various international projects: from "Šoblė Film Festival", creative laboratory "Eduardas Balsys Music in Film" to short-term student mobilities.
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.
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