Lina Plioplyte

Lina Lyte Plioplyte is an Emmy, Clio and a Silver Lion winning director/DP. Lina's passion for moving images started while studying journalism in Lithuania and later at the University of Colorado Boulder. The best film school has been New York city, where Lina established herself in 2008 making films for NYLON magazine and fashion brands. For the past 10 years, Lina has been working as a freelance director & cinematographer, making numerous documentaries, commercials, music videos, travel content and short films that have been shown on MTV, PBS, Pitchfork and various film festivals, including Hot Docs, MIFF and IDFA. Lina's feature-length directorial debut is ADVANCED STYLE, currently streaming on Amazon, after a successful run on Netflix. Lina's cinematography, acknowledged with an Emmy, champions the natural light and and intimacy with those she films. Her goal as a director is to call in the mystery of life and provoke change by telling compelling real stories. Understanding both camera and the story makes Lina a skillful collaborator in crafting documentaries. She believes in integral filmmaking, by hiring women and minorities, highlighting and supporting the communities that she films in, and making her film sets plastic-free.