Ivars Seleckis

Also Ivars Seleckis came to filmmaking through agriculture – he was a student of Agricultural academy in Jelgava (Latvia) when started to fiddle with the camera. After graduation from the Academy Ivars put his diploma aside and started to work in Riga Film Studio from the very bottom – as an assistant. Only later he entered the Film Institute in Moscow to become an educated cinematographer. Cinematographer later successfully turned into a director – imaginably with a great help of his wife – film editor Maija Selecka. Ivars claims that the narrow corridor in Riga Film Studio where all those young and crazy newsreel makers met daily was the real school and university in filmmaking. Poetic masterpieces by Ivars Seleckis include: Send-off (1963), was shelved for 50 years (cinematographer), The Coast (1963) (cine-matographer), Year in Review (cinematographer), Valmiera girls (1970) (director, cinematographer), A Woman Who is Waited (1978) (director, cinematographer), Cross – Road Street (1988) (director, cinematographer).

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