Audrius Stonys | Film Director, Producer, Professor | Lithuania

Professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and recipient of the Lithuanian National Culture and Art Award, Audrius Stonys is one of the most prominent filmmakers from the Baltic region. From 1984 to 1989, he studied in Vilnius State Conservatorium film directing then in 1989 studied in Jonas Mekas Film Anthology Archive New York.

His films got numerous international film awards. Among them Audience Award in Nyon, Grand Prix in Split, and prizes in Bornholm, Florence, Gyor, Neu Brandenburg, Oberhausen, Bilbao and San Francisco.

In 1992 Audrius Stonys documentary film Earth of the Blind was recognised by European Film Academy as the Best European Documentary Film of the Year and received the Felix Award.

From 2004 to 2005 he worked as a Documentary teacher in European Film College, Denmark.

Audrius has conducted lectures and masterclasses in Kolkata, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo, Berkeley, Stanford, Belgrade, Barcelona, San Francisco, Carpi Modena and Paris and film presentations in Switzerland, France, Israel, Czech Republic, Germany, USA, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Colombia, Uruguay, Italy.