Talking Movie Night hosted by British Embassy Vilnius

Speakers

Jon Clay

Jon Clay is an award-winning director and producer of natural history and environmental documentaries and has worked at Silverback Films since 2016. Breaking Boundaries: the Science of Our Planet is his first feature doc.

He has been making TV documentaries for over 25 years and was awarded Best Director by BAFTA Cymru in 2005 for Tribe: Kombai and his film South Pacific: Fragile Paradise was awarded Best of Festival at IWFF in 2010. As well as other episodes of the BBC series Tribe and South Pacific, producer/director credits include BBC series Wonders of the Monsoon, Lonesome George: Battle for Galapagos and Flooded Britain. In addition he was responsible for a plethora of short-form content during his time working on the Our Planet Halo, which picked up a number of awards including 3 Webbys.

Jon has also worked as a DoP on a number of high-profile documentaries including the BBC series Human Planet and was part of the Emmy award-wining cinematography team on Blue Planet II. His photographs have won several awards and been published in a variety of books and magazines including National Geographic.

Vaiva Grainytė

Vaiva Grainytė is a writer, playwright, and poet and takes action as an observant anthropologist: challenged by Grainyte's poetic interpretation, mundane social issues take on a paradoxical and defamiliarised nature.

Her book of essays Beijing Diaries (2012) and the poetry collection Gorilla’s Archives (2019) were nominated for the Book of the Year awards, and included in the top twelve listings of the most creative books in Lithuania.

Her oeuvre has been translated into over 10 languages. She is the librettist and one of the authors of the opera-performance Sun and Sea which represented Lithuania at the 58th Contemporary Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Egidijus Rimkus

Egidijus Rimkus is professor in climatology at Institute of Geosciences of Vilnius University. He has been researching various issues related to climate change for almost three decades.

These include the analysis of regional changes of climate, assessment of the environmental and socioeconomic impacts as well as adaptation to climate change. Currently, his main interest is in social issues and geopolitics of climate change.

Dovilė Šorytė

Dovilė Šorytė received her Master’s degree in Health Psychology and her Doctor’s degree in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Vilnius University, where she continues working as a lecturer.

The main area of her research is related to Environmental Psychology – a rather new subfield of psychology that examines the interactions between individuals and their built and natural environments.

The areas of Dovile’s interest include topics on pro-environmental behaviour and its psychological factors, as well as the relationship between humans and nature.

Živilė Kropaitė

Živilė Kropaitė is an award-winning journalist with over 10 years of experience in radio and TV presenting. Having also worked as a stringer to international news outlets, she has broad expertise when it comes to global processes and events.

She has graduated from Vilnius University with a BA in English. She also holds a M.A. in British studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.