At Creative Industries Television (KiTV), VILNIUS TECH students develop and produce documentary web series in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary teams.
KiTV is managed by Aiste Ptakauske, an award-winning content creator and educator who successfully works across media and continents. She authored a collection of short stories and two best-selling novels for young adults, made two documentaries, and worked on almost 300 episodes of TV and web series in the capacity of a screenwriter, supervising producer, head writer or creator. Ethnic Kitchen, Ptakauske’s documentary about immigrant women in post-Soviet independent Lithuania, was included into the international film festival Ethnografilm as well as curricula of several universities in Europe and beyond. For her web series Little Incidents that she created for KiTV, Ptakauske received the Best Creator award at Seoul Webfest 2019.
Aiste Ptakauske holds an MA in Television-Radio-Film from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York, USA, and is an alumna of the 2012 MediaXchange program "Showrunner Exchange: TV Drama, Los Angeles“, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab 2013, European TV Drama Lab 2018, and MIDPOINT TV Launch 2021.
Little Incidents
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Series
by Aiste Ptakauske (Comedy)
Creator, Director Little Incidents is a web series about incompatible and, frankly speaking, quite egotistic young people that, despite of hating each other, are forced to co-habit.
Ethnic Kitchen
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Documentary
by Aiste Ptakauske (Documentary)
Director Ethnic Kitchen is a documentary about five women that immigrated to Lithuania from different countries (the US, Uruguay, Chechnya, Jamaica) and for different reasons, but with the same goal--to find happiness.
Best Creator Award from Seoul Webfest
(2019)