Giedrė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Film and TV department with an MA in Audiovisual Arts in 2002. She has directed and written eight fiction and documentary short and medium length films which have been well recognised, both nationally and internationally. Member of the Lithuanian Filmmakers Union. Her documentaries Conversations on serious topics (2012), Grandma and Grandpa (2007) and Vulkanovka, After The Grand Cinema (2005) received awards at film festivals in Ukraine, Belarus, Portugal, Canada, and Lithuania, and were also awarded the Lithuanian Filmmakers Union Prize in 2005 and 2007. Her short fiction film Existence (2004) was nominated for the Best European Short Film Award “Les Lutins” in France in 2005. Her medium-length film The Balcony (2008) received the Silver Crane award in 2009 for the Best Short Film in Lithuania.
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