Baltic Sea Docs/ Audrius Stonys
Memories… Audrius Stonys was at the Balticum Film & TV Festival in the beginning of the 1990’es. He and Arunas Matelis were the young talents, who showed short documentaries in the Kino Gudhjem on Bornholm. Films like “Antigravitation” and “Earth of the Blind”. Later came “Uku Ukai”, “Alone”, “Countdown”… and together with Kristine Briede “Bridges of Time” that gives us the story of the poetic Baltic documentary cinema with Herz Frank and Uldis Brauns and Ivars Seleckis and…
Audrius is here in Riga with a project, “Bride of the Invisible” that in a beautiful way follows up on the short films mentioned above.
He is now a veteran, he is a grandfather, his daughter is here with her husband – Marija Stonyté is the producer of her father´s film-to-be (!), his son by the way, Paulius, is a cinematographer, very much in demand, yes it is a film family – Audrius is also making tv portraits together with his father and sister, Aiste Stonyté.
In 2013 my late colleague Allan Berg made “Audrius Stonys, Collected Posts on his Works”, you can google it, Allan admired Audrius, met him year after year on Bornholm and wrote beautiful texts about his films. In Danish. RIP Allan.
And – photo – here we are, Audrius and me, in a room where the pitching training takes place. Lovely moment, thank you for your films and the many times we have met in Vilnius and around the world!
