Liva Vilnite

Liva Vilnite is a young filmmaker and artist born in 1993, Latvia. In 2008 she started her carrier as an artist of graphical paintings winning competitions in Latvia, Estonia and Taiwan. In 2012 her passion to art transformed in to motion pictures. She started her BA studies in Baltic Film and Media school, program Crossmedia Production. However, discovering the colourful film world, she focused in directing, writing and storytelling instead of media productions. At the beginning of 2014, she presented her first film as a writer and director - Clock Stopped at 6.30. It was a poetic short about young girl suffering a major tragedy and seeking for revival. The film was selected to the BOBs - the schools festival "Best of BFM 2014" and got in selection of the best works as a juries mention. Therefore it was screened as a part of schools selection programme in the cinema Artis in Tallinn, Estonia and cinema KSuns in Riga, Latvia during the following year. That was the major turning point for her carrier and five more shorts followed in next two years: an architecture film Frequency as a part of architecture film competition in Estonia, short film Mirror, short documentary The Art of Pole Dance, short documentary The Last Exit and a short fiction Saulite (Sunshine) that is her graduation work from Baltic Film and Media school. As a director Liva focuses on life stories of people around. As the oldest child of three, she has always been interested in people relations, choices, the life energy and organisation. She believes that a creation of the film requires a lot of life, fantasy and never-ending interest in everything around. Therefore the best way of studying is to live. Human stories are the biggest motivation, inspiration and passion for her. The vibrant world of everyday life brings the natural colour and taste in her films.