Articles by Linas Jegelevicius

Algirdas Ramaška.
Culture

“Lithuanian film industry is going through transformation, but the future is promising”

July 21, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

Lithuania still needs to do a good deal of catching up with Latvia and Estonia in charting more foreign cinema waters, insists Algirdas Ramaška, executive director of Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” (Cinema Spring), the biggest and most successful cinema event in Lithuania. But with the leaps some of the young generation movie directors have been recently making, a Hollywood acclamation can come sooner rather than later. Ramaška kindly agreed to answer these questions from the Lithuania Tribune. […]

Lithuanian leaders sing the national anthem
Culture

Kudirka’s National Anthem behests will live forever

July 7, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

For the sixth time in a row, all Lithuanians, in their Homeland and abroad alike, celebrating the Lithuanian King Mindaugas’ coronation every year on 6 July, have coalesced for singing Lithuania’s National Anthem in over 30 countries worldwide. Behind the heart-gripping but simple verses there stands Vincas Kudirka, an outstanding 19-century public activist, publicist, song and satire writer and the author of Lithuania’s national anthem. […]

Marius Ivaškevičius
Culture

Entrepreneurial playwright Ivaškevičius: “Plays sell best today”

June 30, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

41-year-old Marius Ivaškevičius today is an established playwright, aspiring movie director and definitely one of the most talented young-generation’s artists in Lithuania. Frankly, we had met ages ago, in the early 1990, when Marius, then a student of the Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University’s Philology Department, mingled in M.K. Sarbievijus courtyard along with other literature wannabes, some of which, like him, very aspiring. […]