Giedre Zickyte

Giedrė Žickytė is an award-winning Lithuanian documentary film director and Producer and the co-founder of the production company, Moonmakers. She graduated with a master’s degree in Visual Arts from Vilnius Art Academy in 2007. Her films have been selected at numerous international film festivals including IDFA, Hot Docs, Visions du Réel...

Many of her films have been theatrically distributed and broadcast on television internationally. Master and Tatyana won 4 Silver Cranes, the Lithuanian Film Academy Awards including the awards for Best Director and Best Documentary, and was selected as one of Ten Documentary Film Talents of 2015 by international film critic Tue Steen Müller. Giedrė produced The Earth is blue as an orange by Iryna Tsilyk which premiered in Sundance 2020 World Documentary Competition and received the Best Directing Award.

Giedrė is a member of the European Film Academy, Lithuanian Filmmakers Union, alumni of Berlinale Talent Campus, Sources2, CPH:DOX LAB, EURODOC and dok.incubator.