RIGA: Latvian director Ivars Tontegode is currently shooting a teenage drama
Anna LOL, produced by Mojo Raiser Production and KIB Kultivators. The film was supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia with a grant in the low-budget film competition from specific additional COVID-19 funding for the industry in 2020.
The film’s main protagonist is Anna, a girl in her late teens. She tries to cope with the struggles faced by any youth, either at home or at school, and also her inner troubles of growing up. The script is based on the diaries of a real high school senior year student Marta Sofija Trence, who wrote about her experiences in 2018-2019, including the separation of her family, her friend’s suicide and her own emotional hardship. Trence is also the film’s scriptwriter.
Martin Jørgensen Edelsteen, editor
Paula Popmane, production designer
Toms Grinbergs and costume designer
Ilze Grickus. The feature was shot in Latvian, English and Russian, with filming taking place on location in Latvia and in Tiksi, a remote village in the Russian Arctic.
Commenting on his project, PoÅ¡kus told Cineuropa: âThe need to have a dream is an obscure but essential drive in a personâs life. Inspired by travel diaries by
Harijs Sils, a Latvian adventurer, the film is an exploration of the idea of making a mark, a unique achievement, that would give the character a certain uniqueness in his own eyes. This poses a question â how much are our dreams really our own? How much of what we strive and hope to achieve is associated with social recognition, tied into a cultural and social construct of achievement and success? From that, the North Pole is just a symbol, representing a certain âzenithâ in one s life that lacks any other symbolism
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