Quartz

Lithuania
2018
Fiction
5 min.

 

Directors | Odeta Riškutė, Klaudija Matvejevaitė
Script | Odeta Riškutė, Klaudija Matvejevaitė
Director of photography | Odeta Riškutė
Editing | Darius Šilėnas
Sound | Iveta Macevičiūtė
Composer | Teisutis Makačinas
Producer | Urtė Aškelovičiūt
Production company | Baltic Productions

 

Winter in Soviet Lithuanian School. School authorities introduce regular quartz lamp sessions – so that children could receive a missing vitamin D amount. But for the sixth-grader Pijus, vitamin D is not important, he cares about a cool classmate, sadly this is a one-sided feeling. During the first quartz lamp session, the boy bravely violates the rules in order to impress his crush.

 

Odeta Riškutė (b. 1993) is young cinematographer. In 2012, she graduated from Westminster college in London. In 2018 graduated from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, BA in Cinematography. In 9th edition of Lithuanian cinematography awards won a nomination for best young lithuanian cinematographer of the year.
Klaudija Matvejevaitė (b. 1995) is a young director. 2002-2014 studied at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts (Fine Arts department, Graphic Arts class). In 2018, she graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, BA in Film Directing. Her short film “The Last Day” was awarded with ,,Silver crane’s egg“ as the best student film by Lithuanian Film Academy.

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