Smart Casual

30/08/2024

✨Our co-produced project OBRAZA (directed by Gleb Osatinski) had its screening at the SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL this week.
🥇 We are so happy to announce that it was selected as the best short film in the TEEN ARENA PROGRAMME!
Congrats to all!

22/08/2024

🎉This week, Aldona Vilutytė and Birutė Kapustinskaitė presented our short film “Nominees” at the Concorto Film Festival! Thank you for the opportunity!

💜 A huge thanks to Lietuvos kino centras for partially supporting Birute's trip.
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✨Film is produced together with Just a moment.
✨ Lights On distributes the film.
🎬 Film production is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk Media!

12/08/2024

🇷🇴 "Nominees" (by Birutė Kapustinskaitė ) is coming to Romania!
🎬 The film will be screened at the 21st edition of ANONIMUL IFF
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✨ Lights On distributes the film.
Film production is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Kūrybiškos Europos biuras / Creative Europe Desk LT.

09/08/2024

✨ Justinas Pocius is having a wonderful time at the Locarno Film Festival, participating in the "Match Me!" program.
✨VARIETY has featured both the program and one of our projects - HOLD ME CLOSER. Check out the link in the comments.
💜 A huge thanks to Lietuvos kino centras for this fantastic opportunity!

08/08/2024

✨ 🍿 There is one more chance to watch NOMINEES (directed by Birutė Kapustinskaitė) on the big screen this summer!
✨Nacionaliniai kino apdovanojimai „Sidabrinė gervė“ screening, featuring NOMINEES and other great Lithuanian films, will take place tomorrow at 10 p.m. in Ežerėliai!!
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Film production is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Kūrybiškos Europos biuras / Creative Europe Desk LT.

02/08/2024

✨ We're not just about films!

Check out this trailer for a stunning video performance of Carmina Burana by the Klaipėdos valstybinis muzikinis teatras, which premiered last summer.

✨Visual concept and video design by Martynas Norvaisas.

Video performance of 'Carmina Burana' by the Klaipėda State Musical Theatre, based on Carl Orff's stage cantata of the same name.

19/07/2024

🏖️ Join us for a screening of our film "NOMINEES" (directed by Birutė Kapustinskaitė) tomorrow at 8 PM at Zirmunai Beach. Birute will attend a Q&A session after the screening!!
✨We look forward to seeing you there!

💜 Thank you, Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival, for organising this event.

10/07/2024

🛳️Our hybrid documentary "SHIP" by Gerda Paliušytė has entered post-production!!
❤️Sound designer Kipras Dominas sends regards from the studio!

28/06/2024

🎬 The film NOMINEES (by Birutė Kapustinskaitė )continues its international tour with a screening at the Cinema Jove film festival! 🇪🇸 🇪🇸

❤ Thank you, Lithuanian Film Centre, for partially financing Birute’s trip.
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Production of the film is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk - MEDIA.

26/06/2024

🎬 The DOP Vytautas Plukas and the director Irma Pužauskaitė of our film “Hold Me Closer” recently returned from the EKRAN workshop.They had a fantastic opportunity to shoot one scene for the feature film “Hold Me Closer” currently in development.

✨Thank you, Ekran, organized by Wajda School & Studio, for hosting our team and for everything!

25/06/2024

🌴🎬 "NOMINEES" (dir. Birutė Kapustinskaitė ) IS IN PALM SPRINGS!
Our film "Nominees" has its USA premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
💜 Thank you to the LKC for partially financing Birute’s trip to Palm Springs.
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Production of the film is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk - MEDIA.

21/06/2024

☀️🇷🇴 Sending sunny greetings from the Transilvania International Film Festival! Rūta Petronytė is finishing up an amazing European Women's Audiovisual Network - EWA mentorship here.

19/06/2024

🎬 Justinas Pocius will be at the Locarno Film Festival for the MATCH ME PROGRAM!

An informal networking platform for young producers with distinct focus and strong visions since 2015.

10/06/2024

✨ Warmest congratulations to all the winners of the National Silver Crane Awards (Nacionaliniai kino apdovanojimai „Sidabrinė gervė“).

❤️ We were deeply inspired by the speeches about human rights and celebrating love within the LGBTQ+ community.

🏳️‍🌈 Smart Casual stands in solidarity with this important matter!

Palaikykime Partnerystės įstatymą!

05/06/2024

Our films are traveling! 🎬🌍

THE NOMINEES by Birutė Kapustinskaitė:

International Competition @ Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival (05.30 - 06.05)
Behind the Camera @ Palm Springs International Film Festival (06.18 - 06.24)
Sección Oficial Cortometrajes Valencia International Film Festival – Cinema Jove (06.20 - 06.29)
ECOS Programm @ FEST - New Directors New Films Festival (06.24 - 07.01)
Birutė will be at Palm Springs and Valencia – thank you to the Lietuvos kino centras for partial support and Lights On for being together!

ARRESTED by Indrė Juškutė:

TALES OF WOMANHOOD I @ FEST - New Directors New Films Festival(06.24 - 07.01)

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Production of the film is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk - MEDIA.

24/05/2024

💜 Gerda Paliušytė and Rūta Petronytė are presenting our project "Ship" at the Beldocs - Меđunarodni festival dokumentarnog filma pitching forum today !! Wish them luck! 🤞

💜Thank you to the Lietuvos kino centras for partially financing our trip!

16/05/2024

🎬 Smart Casual is at Festival de Cannes ! 🇫🇷
See you there!

💜 Thank you to the Baltic Film & Creative Tech Cluster for partially financing our trip!

10/05/2024

!!!!! NOMINEES (by B. Kapustinskaitė) IS NOMINATED for Lithuanian national awards - Nacionaliniai kino apdovanojimai „Sidabrinė gervė“ 🪶🪶🪶

🎬 A huge shoutout to our DREAM TEAM:
Director: Birutė Kapustinskaitė
Producers: Rūta Petronytė , Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
Cinematographer: Vytautas Katkus
Production Designer: Sigita Simkunaite
Sound Designer: Dominyka Adomaityte
Casting Directors:Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė, Marija Kavtaradze
Costume Designer: Marija Zalensaitė
Hair and Make up Designer: Eglė Mikalauskaitė - Gricienė
Editor: Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Composer: Agnė Matulevičiūtė

✨We are so grateful for our amazing team and for all the people who make the film happen!!!
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Production of the film is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk - MEDIA.

06/05/2024

✨The documentary film “SHIP” (dir. Gerda Paliušytė ) goes to BELGRAD!

🎬The film will be presented at the Beldocs - Меđunarodni festival dokumentarnog filma pitching forum on the 24th of May together with director Gerda Paliušytė and producer Rūta Petronytė !

The participation was partly supported by the Lietuvos kino centras.

Beldocs Pitching Forum 2024 DOCS IN DEVELOPMENT 2024 BALCANA PRESENTA Director Adriana Trujillo Bosnia and Herzegovina, México, Argentina Balcana Presenta combines auto-ethnography and docu-fiction, using reenactment and collaborative performance to recreate episodes of the lives of four Latin Amer...

01/05/2024

Great news! Smart Casual co-founder Rūta became a member of The Independent Producers Association of Lithuania. Thank you for your trust, Film Producers LT!

Sveikiname prodiuserę Rūtą Petronytę prisijungus prie Nepriklausomų prodiuserių asociacijos! 👏

Studijos „Smart Casual“ bendraįkūrėja kino industrijoje dirba nuo 2012 m. Savo karjeros metu Rūta sukaupė patirtį įvairiuose nacionaliniuose ir tarptautiniuose projektuose, užimant skirtingas pozicijas: gamybos koordinatorės, gamybos vadovės, gamybos prodiuserės ir prodiuserės.

Plačiau: filmproducers.lt/nariai/ruta-petronyte

26/04/2024

✨Director of our film “Hold Me Closer,” Irma Pužauskaitė, script writer Birutė Kapustinskaitė , and producer Rūta Petronytė , had the exciting opportunity to attend the “EKRAN + “ workshop this week.

✨ Director Irma Pužauskaitė shares her experience with the first session:
Being part of Ekran+ has really changed the game for our film. It's where characters become real people. We dig deep, asking lots of questions to understand what our story is really about and who these characters truly are. Our script transforms into a solid roadmap for our movie with each session. Ekran+ isn't just about writing a script; it's about being creative and making a movie that speaks to everyone.

❤ Thank you Wajda School & Studio and Lietuvos kino centras!

15/04/2024

✨We are excited to share a sneak peek of our upcoming project "SHIP" directed by Gerda Paliušytė.
✨Discover more about our hybrid documentary and check out some beautiful behind the scenes photos by Martynas Norvaišas in the magazine Literatūra ir menas.

Low Air Šokio Mokykla

12/04/2024

A few weeks ago, two of our co-produced projects, "Obraza" and "The Nominees," premiered at the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival .
🎬Cinematographer Vytautas Katkus worked on both films. Vytautas discusses how these films were made in more detail on the LAC Lietuvos kino operatorių asociacija podcast, which we'd love to share with you.

✨Podcast about "The Nominees":
https://lac.lt/vytautas-katkus-ir-jo-filmai-festivalyje-kino-pavasaris-1-dalis/

✨Podcast about "Obraza," the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival Best Short Film winner:
https://lac.lt/vytautas-katkus-ir-dar-jo-1-filmas-festivalyje-kino-pavasaris-2-dalis/

Kaip vienas didžiausių kino festivalių „Kino pavasaris” be asociacijos nario Vytauto Katkaus? Niekaip. Šį pokalbį įrašinėjome dar prieš festivaliui paskelbiant programą, tad Vytautas žinojo bei tikėjo, kad festivalyje premjerinsis tik 2 trumpametražiai filmai: režisierės Birutės...

05/04/2024

✨We're excited to announce that our feature film "Hold Me Closer" has been selected to participate in the Ekran+ training program.

🎬This gives a fantastic opportunity for our creative team, which includes director Irma Pužakauskaitė, scriptwriter Birutė Kapustinskaitė, cinematographer Vytautas Plukas, and producer Rūta Petronytė, to further develop the script and even to film one scene for the project.

We can't wait to start our training session!

Thank you Lietuvos kino centras and Wajda School & Studio

28/03/2024

✨Smart Casual sends a big congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the "Golden Crosses of the Stage" Awards!

Our co-produced film, "The Nominees," directed by Birutė Kapustinskaitė was shown at yesterday's "Golden Crosses of the Stage" award ceremony!

🎬The movie is about a bus full of actors returning from the National Performing Arts Awards. We hope that yesterday's journey back home was not as dramatic for all the participants of the awards as it is in our film 😉

The Featured image: Birutė is watching her film "The Nominees" at the after-party of the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival award ceremony. ❤
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Production of the film is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk - MEDIA.

27/03/2024

✨LIVE STREAMING FROM VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARD CEREMONY!!!
Our co-produced project, OBRAZA, won the Best Short Film award at the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival. Congratulations to the entire team and actors!
🎬Greetings to all from the film’s director, Gleb Osatinski!

23/03/2024

🌟 We're thrilled to share moments from our co-produced project "The Nominees" premiere at the @ Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival. Directed by Birutė Kapustinskaitė and produced by Rūta Petronytė and Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė (Just A Moment). A big thank you to the amazing crew and incredibly talented actors who poured their heart and soul into this film. 🙌
Lights On Lietuvos kino centras Birutė Kapustinskaitė Kūrybiškos Europos biuras / Creative Europe Desk LT

🎬 If you didn't get a chance to see the film yesterday, you can catch the additional screenings and ask questions about the film yourself because Birutė will be in a Q&A sessions after the film.

Romuva (Kaunas) - March 23, 2024, 3:30 PM | Birutė will attend Q&A
Skalvija (Vilnius) - March 24, 2024, 1:15 PM | Birutė will attend Q&A
Arlekinas (Klaipėda) - March 24, 2024, 1:45 PM
Forum Cinemas Vilnius - March 26, 2024, 1:00 PM | Birutė will attend Q&A

Photos by Vytautė Ribokaitė (KINFO)

14/03/2024

As the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival starts, we're delighted to share the screening dates for two of our co-produced films.

📽️ "The Nominees" (directed by B. Kapustinskaite) will be screened at the "Short Competition: Lithuanian Premieres”.

Screening times for "THE NOMINEES":
March 22nd, 18:30 at Forum Cinemas Vingis
March 24th, 13:15 at Skalvija
March 26th, 17:45 at Arlekine, Klaipėda

📽️ "Obraza" (directed by G. Osatinski) will be featured in the program "Men Also Cry"

Screening times for "OBRAZA":
March 21st, 18:15 at Pasaka
March 24th, 13:30 at Forum Cinemas Vingis

Take a moment to appreciate our beautiful poster for "The Nominees," created by the talented Antanas Dubra

27/02/2024

We are thrilled to announce that two coproduced films by Smart Casual, will have their national premiere at the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival.

🎬The film "The Nominees" (directed by Birutė Kapustinskaitė ) will be shown in the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival "Short Competition: Lithuanian Premieres".

🎬The film "Obraza" (directed by Gleb Osatinski) will be shown in the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival program "Men Also Cry".

❤️We thank the entire team and the wide cast of actors who contributed to the realisation of these films!
🎉We invite everyone to see the films on the cinema screen at the Kino Pavasaris | Vilnius International Film Festival from March 14th to 27th!

Featured images: Still pictures from the film "The Nominees".
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Production of the film is financed by Lietuvos kino centras and Creative Europe Desk - MEDIA.

21/02/2024

✨We are finally celebrating the premiere of our co-produced project OBRAZA (Resentment) at the Berlinale “Generation 14plus” program!
🎞️Tickets were sold out in just an hour—a clear indicator of the high-calibre films showcased.
✨A heartfelt thank you to the film's dedicated crew, talented actors, and especially Gleb and Dixon for their trust.