ERA FILM currently producing and developing films by:
Audrius Mickevičius
15 10 1965 - 19 12 2017
Gained education as architect at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Gained also education of Art and visual communication at the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Multidisciplinary artist (film, video art, architecture, sound, music, graphics, writing), professor at the Department of Photography and Media Arts at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, guest lecturer at the European Universities.
Nerijus Milerius
Nerijus Milerius is a scriptwriter, philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is teaching film philosophy, religious cinema, cultural studies and aesthetics. He is the editor and one of the authors of the monograph “Film and Philosophy” and the author of the monograph “Apocalypse in Cinema: The Philosophical Presuppositions” (Vilnius University Press, 2013). Milerius is an author or co-author of several scripts for feature films, such as “Isaac” (director Jurgis Matulevičius) to be released in 2019; “Antigonė” (director Oskaras Koršunovas) which is in development. Milerius was the script editor of the documentary film “Exemplary Behaviour”; from 2017 he is the co-director of this film.
Giedrė Narušytė Boots
is a scenographer, theatre maker, audio-visual artist, animation director and animator. In 1995 she graduated in Scenography at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania and moved to Belgium, where she continued her studies at KASK Ghent (Royal Academy of Fine Arts). For two decades she took part in different interdisciplinary art projects. She made installation art and exhibited her works in: ‘Wisselstukken '94’ Multimedia Projects in Amsterdam; 'Asile pour inadaptés' in Charleville-Mézières, France; ‘Kitsch &’ Gentse Feesten in Ghent; project ‘Op weg’ with four exhibitions in different towns in Belgium.
The following years Giedrė Narušytė Boots focused on children’s theatre. Together with Bob Van de Putte she made improvisations with actors, puppets, shadow puppets and live music. They experimented with all kinds of ways of storytelling, avoiding the use of language as the main source of communication. Children’s plays without linguistic barriers were successfully played all around Belgium for Flemish- and French-speaking children.
In 2013 she started studying animation film at the School of Arts in Ghent, Graduated with Master degree in 2018. Animation is a great challenge to convert her experience in visual and interdisciplinary arts into film language.
Miglė Satkauskaitė
In 2011 Ms Satkauskaite started studying filmmaking at London Middlesex University. Before starting the BA in Film, Migle attended flute class in a Kaunas music conservatory. The higher music education became an important factor shaping her creative work. As an exchange student, Migle spent one year in FAMU International school in Prague.
The interest in politics and social issues led her to Afghanistan where she was teaching documentary filmmaking and International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva as an AV producer.
Maciej Drygas
Film and radio director, screenwriter, producer, professor and lecturer at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. He has won awards at numerous international festivals, including: the Prix Italia in 1992 for the radio documentary “My Last Will”, a Felix in 1991 for the best documentary film in Europe for “Hear My Cry”. Maciej J. Drygas’s films and radio documentaries have been broadcasted in Europe, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Brazil and Australia.
History & Vision
Established in Vilnius in 2001 by the Lithuanian producer, Rasa Miskinyte, ERA FILM is known for producing award winning international documentary films.
Recently ERA FILM entered a new era with an additional focus on animation, feature films, transmedia projects.
ERA FILM focuses on creativity, strong stories with a human impact and a high level of execution.
ERA FILM made films in co-production with France, Germany, Poland, Ireland, Spain. Have co-produced or cooperated with such broadcasters as: MDR (Germany), NHK (Japan), TG4 (Ireland), BBC-NI (UK), AVRO (The Netherlands), YLE (Finland), TVP2 (Poland), Belsat TV (Poland/Belorusia), ERR (Estonia), DR (Denmark), SVT (Sweden), NRK (Norway), TSR (Switzerland)
People:
Rasa Miskinyte
Managing Director / Producer
Rasa Miskinyte first graduated with a degree in Engineering. She also holds a Master’s degree from Lithuanian Music Academy, Film and TV Department as a Producer and graduated from the European Film College in Denmark. Rasa has worked as Commissioning Editor for Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), produced and co-produced several award-winning documentary films. From 2010-2012 she was the Chairman of the Lithuanian Producers’ Association. Since 2013 she is the board memeber of Lithuanian Producers’ Association, and board member of Lithuanian Film Academy.
Languages of communication: Lithuanian / Russian / English
