Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 03, 1991
Place of Birth
Vilnius, Lithuania
Credits
23 titles
Marija Kavtaradzė
Biography
Marija Kavtaradze graduated from the Academy of Music and Theater, Vilnius, with a BA in directing. She has been making films and writing screenplays for films since 2010. Since her debut in the film industry, Marija Kavtaradze was immediately noticed and appreciated by the Lithuanian film community. Marija Kavtaradze's short films The Last Man (2011) and I Am in My Twenties (2015) were awarded Silver Crane Eggs for best student work. Marija Kavtaradze (along with director Andrius Blaževičius and her sister Tekle Kavtaradze) has also been awarded the Silver Crane for the script of the movie The Saint. Marija Kavtaradze’s best-known movie Summer Survivors appeared in theatres in 2018. It opened Toronto Film Festival in 2019, the film received a special viewer award at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy; it was recognized as the Best Baltic Film at the Tallinn Film Festival, and it also won Young Jury Prize at Tofifest Festival in Poland, 2019. The film was voted the best Lithuanian film at the Film Spring Awards.
Known For
Filmography
Renovation
Casting
The Visitor
Writer
BFF. Turbo Adventure Marathon
Writer
Slow
Director
Parade
Casting
Crosswalk That Wasn't There
Self
The Poet
Casting
We Might Hurt Each Other
Casting
Runner
Casting
Summer Survivors
Director
When Children Come Home
Writer
Through the Fields
Screenplay
The Saint
Writer
Igloo
Director
I’m Twenty Something
Director
Floor Scrapers
Director
After Rave
Writer
The Bomb
Assistant Director
Youngblood
Director
Normal People Don't Explode Themselves
Director
Laikinai
Writer
Miss Venezuela
Writer
I’m Thirty Something
Director