Need to know: Set up in 2000, Mistrus Media is an established Latvian production stable making international features and documentaries with partners from Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and across Europe. Its credits include Hungarian feature Natural Light, which won the best director Silver Bear for Denes Nagy at Berlin 2021; Sharunas Bartas’s In The Dusk, which was in competition at San Sebastian 2020; Aik Karapetian’s Samuel’s Travels (with Belgian co-producer Polar Bear); and documentary My Father The Spy (with Germany, Czech Republic and Estonia as production partners).
Key personnel: Inese Boka-Grube, Gints Grube and Elina Gedina-Ducena, producers.
Incoming: Viesturs Kairiss’s January follows a teenage cinematographer and his friends in the early 1990s amid the break-up of the Soviet Union; a co-production with Lithuania’s Artbox and Poland’s Staron Film, the film will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. Also in the works is Latvia-Estonia-Poland documentary co-production Nord Express (working title), director Karlis Lesins’ investigation into the $7.5bn (€7bn) EU-funded high-speed railway line Rail Baltica. Maria’s Silence, directed by Davis Simanis, is in development/pre-production with co-producers Lilith Films (France) and 8Heads Productions (Czech Republic) and is based on the true story of Latvia-born silent-film actress Marija Leiko.
Inese Boka-Grube says: “By organising successful co-productions with other European countries, even small countries can be great partners in large film productions.”
Contact: birojs@mistrusmedia.lv
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