Selected Podcast
The Must-See Documentary about a Woman's Journey from Menstruation to Menopause and Beyond
Featured Speaker:
Lina's passion for moving images started while studying journalism in Lithuania and later at the University of Colorado Boulder. The best film school has been New York city, where Lina established herself in 2008 making films for NYLON magazine and fashion brands. For the past 12 years, Lina has been working as a freelance director & cinematographer, making numerous documentaries, commercials, travel content and short films that have been shown on MTV, PBS, in Venice Biennale, and various film festivals, including SxSW and IDFA. Lina's feature-length directorial debut was ADVANCED STYLE, currently streaming on Amazon, after a successful run on Netflix. She just premiered PERIODICAL, a feature documentary about menstrual cycle produced by XTR, at SxSW, to stream this Fall on MSNBC and Peacock, – and is developing her third feature.
Clients include: – The New Yorker – Vice Media – Gucci – Artsy – Levi's – Garnier – Glamour — Nowness – The Guardian – TJ Maxx – Lancôme — 60 Second Docs
Lina’s cinematography, acknowledged with an Emmy, champions the natural light and intimacy with those she films. Her goal as a storyteller is to bring more balance into the world and to remember the mystery and awe. Understanding both camera and the story makes Lina a skillful collaborator in crafting documentaries. She believes in integral filmmaking, by hiring women and minorities, mentoring young filmmakers, and making her film sets plastic-free. She runs quarterly FILMMAKERS’ ACCELERATORS, a 7 week program to help beginning filmmakers to craft and package their stories with the current documentary landscape map at hand.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linalyte/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lina_lyte/
Lina Lyte Plioplyte
{linna – light plyo-pleet-eh} is an Emmy, Clio and a Silver Lion winning director and camera person.Lina's passion for moving images started while studying journalism in Lithuania and later at the University of Colorado Boulder. The best film school has been New York city, where Lina established herself in 2008 making films for NYLON magazine and fashion brands. For the past 12 years, Lina has been working as a freelance director & cinematographer, making numerous documentaries, commercials, travel content and short films that have been shown on MTV, PBS, in Venice Biennale, and various film festivals, including SxSW and IDFA. Lina's feature-length directorial debut was ADVANCED STYLE, currently streaming on Amazon, after a successful run on Netflix. She just premiered PERIODICAL, a feature documentary about menstrual cycle produced by XTR, at SxSW, to stream this Fall on MSNBC and Peacock, – and is developing her third feature.
Clients include: – The New Yorker – Vice Media – Gucci – Artsy – Levi's – Garnier – Glamour — Nowness – The Guardian – TJ Maxx – Lancôme — 60 Second Docs
Lina’s cinematography, acknowledged with an Emmy, champions the natural light and intimacy with those she films. Her goal as a storyteller is to bring more balance into the world and to remember the mystery and awe. Understanding both camera and the story makes Lina a skillful collaborator in crafting documentaries. She believes in integral filmmaking, by hiring women and minorities, mentoring young filmmakers, and making her film sets plastic-free. She runs quarterly FILMMAKERS’ ACCELERATORS, a 7 week program to help beginning filmmakers to craft and package their stories with the current documentary landscape map at hand.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linalyte/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lina_lyte/