Giedrė Žickytė

Directing · b. 1980

Giedrė Žickytė is an EFA nominated film director and producer based in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the founder of the production company Moonmakers. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Vilnius Art Academy in 2007 and since 2010 started working in the international field of documentary cinema.

Full biography

Her latest film The Jump (Lithuania, France, Latvia) won Best Documentary Feature Award at Warsaw IFF 2020, Grand Prix at EIDF (South Korea), Main Jury Award at Salem Film Festival 2021 (USA), and more. In 2015, her feature documentary Master and Tatyana was awarded Best Director, Best Documentary, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at the Lithuanian Film Academy Awards. I'm Not From Here (co-directed with M. Alberdi, Chile) was nominated at the 2016 EFA Awards and won over a dozen awards.

Giedrė is a member of the European Film Academy, Lithuanian Filmmakers Union, alumni of Berlinale Talent Campus, and more.

Known for

7.5

The Jump

2020 · Director

7.9

Master and Tatyana

2015 · Director

7.5

I'm Not From Here

2016 · Director

7.0

How We Played the Revolution

2012 · Director

A Goodnight Kiss

2025 · Director

Baras

2009 · Director

Directed