Film director

About

Born in 1983 in Jonava.
In 2007 Jurate gained her MA in Film and TV directing at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy.
She worked on several Lithuanian and foreign productions as a director assistant, script supervisor and as an producer assistant. Jurate Samulionyte is also developing her skills as screenwriter.
Her short stop-motion film „Noroutine” got the “Silver crane” award as “The best Lithuanian short film 2008”.

Filmography

2011 TEMPORARILY (short fiction, 28 min,RED,  (C) Monoklis) – director
2010   SHANGHAI BANZAI (documentary, 26min., HDV) – director
2008   METAMORPHOSIS (documentary portrait of contemporary composer R.Mazulis, 10min.HDV) – director
2007   NOROUTINE (experimental film, 15min., Photo camera) – director
2006   NAŠ DENIK (documentary diary, 9min, miniDV, Czech Republic ) – director
2005   ONCE UPON A TIME (feature film, 8min., DVcam) – director
2005   EVEREST (feature film, 15min. DVcam) – director

Awards

2010 Best short film director at the European Film Forum „Scanorama 2010” Baltic competition „Guest voice” (documentary  SHANGHAI BANZAI)
2009 „Grand Prix“ award at the experimental film festival „Kansk 2009“ (Russia) (short fiction NOROUTINE)
2008 „Silver crane“ award for the best short Lithuanian film 2008 (short fiction NOROUTINE)
2008 Jury prize at the International Tbilisi student film festival „Amirani 2008” (Georgia) (short fiction NOROUTINE)
2008 2nd prize award at the Baltic films competition of Latvian youth film festival 2ANNAS (short fiction NOROUTINE)