Short competition

Antanas Skučas is a film director, data artist, lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and founder of the film studio Tylus kinas. His work is defined by bold technological experimentation, merging traditional animation with XR, VR, AR, and AI capabilities. The director’s unique style has been recognized with Lithuania’s highest cinematic honors: his debut film Childhood Diary (Vaikystės dienoraštis) and the poignant reflection on deportation Purga (co-created with G. Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė) were both awarded the Silver Crane (Sidabrinė gervė). Skučas’s films are regularly screened at international festivals, while his experimental work Planets and Robots (Planetos ir robotai) achieved prestigious recognition through its broadcast on ARTE.

Based in Berlin, Christina has worked across the film and art fields on a range of projects. In 2021, she founded Oyster Films, an agency representing and distributing artists’ films and innovative new forms of cinema. She has also worked in programming, communications, press, festival strategy, and film sales for organisations including Coproduction Office, m-appeal, transmediale, and Berwick Film & Media Art Festival, among others. She is interested in connecting daring and heartfelt moving-image work with audiences in new ways, and thinks about cinema as a physical, relational, and collective experience.

Massimo Iannetti is a film programmer and festival professional, currently programming for PÖFF - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Lago Film Fest. In addition, he serves as Head of Industry at Pordenone Docs Fest as well as Industry Coordinator at Sheffield DocFest and When East Meets West.