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Bille feature film to be Latvian-Lithuanian co-production

BC, Riga, 21.02.2017.Print version

As the Lithuanian Film Center has granted EUR 50,000 for minor co-production to Bille, the would-be Latvian feature film by director Inara Kolmane, the film will be a Latvian-Lithuanian co-production.


Marta Romanova-Jekabsone, one of Bille's producers, said the Lithuanian co-producer will be Studija 2 and its producer Kestutis Petrulis with more than 20 years of experience in film-making.


The status of a co-production will make it possible to bring in the Lithuanian film professionals during the post-production stage.


The funding granted by the Lithuanian Film Center is only part of the financing required for post-production and completion of Bille therefore the fund-raising efforts will continue.


Bille is based on the partly autobiographical novel by outstanding Latvian writer Vizma Belsevica. It is about the pre-war period in Latvia in the late 1930s and about a little girl, Bille, with a sensitive heart, who sometimes cannot understand the life of adults.


Bille is one of the six feature films selected by the Latvian National Film Center for support under the program Latvian Films for Latvia's Centenary. The film's premiere is planned in spring 2018.





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