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As the Tallinn International Film Festival came to an end, Liene Linde’s upcoming feature film “Black Velvet” was given an award in the “Works in Progress” competition of the industry event section Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event. 30-year-old Marta’s rather chaotic life story is coming to cinemas in autumn, 2023. Starring Inga Tropa. Industry@Tallinn & Baltic […]

The creators of TV series “The Assistant” are directors Alise Zariņa and Liene Linde who along with Anete Konste are also the scriptwriters. The main character of the story is 25-year-old Laila who decides to do social work,and believes that she can change the world, but it turns out that the world doesn’t really want

Starting from 20 April, My Favorite War will be screened in around 50 French cinemas in cities like Paris, Marseilles, Cannes, Cherbourg and others. This film is important for France because in 2020 it won the the Contrechamp programme award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy); success in

On February 27th, the National Film Award “Lielais Kristaps” took place.   Three of  Ego Media films – “Lame-os” by Marta Elīna Martinsone (co-produced by 8HEAD Productions and  Tet Studio),  “See You Never Ever” by Ivars Zviedris (co-produced by The Documentarist) and short film “Unfollow Me” by Ilze Burkovska- Jacobsen (co-produced by Bivrost Film), were nominated in 14 categories

Latvian National Film Award ‘Lielais Kristaps’ (Big Kristaps) has announced this year’s nominations, in several categories three films produced by Ego Media are nominated: the debut fiction “Lame-os” by Marta Elīna Martinsone, the documentary “See You Never Ever” by Ivars Zviedris and the debut short  “Unfollow Me” by Ilze Burkovska- Jacobsen. “Lame-os” has been nominated

– VARIETY, Carole Horst, 02/03/21 (..)  Director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen used animation for her documentary-memoir “My Favorite War,” which tells her story of growing up in Latvia during the Cold War. Using animation opened up unlimited possibilities in telling her story and the story of her family under the Soviet government during the 1970s and 1980s.

– DEADLINE, Tom Grater, 23/02/21 EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based sales outfit EastWest Filmdistribution has taken world rights on My Favorite War, the animated feature doc that was an award winner at Annecy last year, where it world premiered. The film is eligible for this year’s Oscars and Annies. Based on director’s Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood memories of creating her own escape route

– FILM NEW EUROPE, Zane Balčus, 18/02/21 RIGA: Latvian box office results show a nearly 70% decrease in 2020 in comparison to 2019. Due to the pandemic, the cinemas were closed in mid-March, allowed to re-open in mid-May with restricted capacity, and closed again at the beginning of November. The attendance reached less than one-third

– VARIETY, Alissa Simon, 21/01/21 The impressive animated memoir “My Favorite War” revisits writer-director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood in Soviet Latvia in the 1970s and ’80s. The result of a nine-year labor of love from a Norwegian-Latvian team, it combines distinctive cutout animation with family photos and archival footage to forge a look at an authoritarian society