Date of birth: November 15, 1968
Education:
1998-2000 - Higher Courses of Film Directors and Scriptwriters at Moscow Film Institute (VGIK)
1975-1987 - Liep
aja Secondary School No. 1
Ivo Kalpenieks
director
Since 1996 - a member of the Latvian Filmmakers Union.
E-mail: ivo@stylemasters.lv

Work Experience:

Company STYLEMASTERS - director and producer
2001 - Ile Films, director
1999-2000 - TV commercials in co-operation with leading Latvian advertising agencies, related to DDB Publicis, Leo Burnett, Botes, etc.
1998  - Latvian Studio for Environmental Films, director of a TV program
"Environmental Facts" and project "Latvia - an Investment-Friendly Country"
1998 - Art Eks Film Studio, director & share-holder
1997-1998 - Latvian Studio for Environmental Films
1995-1997 - FORMA Film Studio, director
1990 - Riga Documentary Film Studio, administrator, assistant of director
1989-1990 - mandatory service in the Soviet Army
1987-1989 - Riga Film Studio, lighting team
Filmography:
Films:
2004 – Honka
2000 – The Kings
1999 –
Is the River Alive?
1999 – The Game

Documentary films:
1997 – Island in the Heaven (prize for the best director of documentary film, prize for the best documentary, prize for the best camera in the National Lielais Kristaps film competition, 1998)
1995 – Ojârs Feldbergs
1993 –
Legend About a Family-Tree (prize for the best script in the National Lielais Kristaps film competition, 1993; film-critics award for synthesis of documentary and feature film)
1992 –
The Town of Kandava
1991 –
Alms-house

Informative, industrial films:
1997 – Soros Foundation Latvia: 5 Years (prize for the best creative solution of an industrial film in the National Lielais Kristaps film competition, 1998)
1997 –
Laboratories of  Ventspils Nafta Campany (prize for the best editing of an industrial film in the National Lielais Kristaps film competition, 1998)
1997 –
Transit in Latvia (prize for the best industrial film in the National Lielais Kristaps film competition, 1998)
1997 –
Ventspils Nafta Company
1997 –
Fishery in Latvia
1996 – Ventbunkers Company
1996
Latvian Industries
1996
Bolderaja Company
1996
Kâlija ParksCompany
1996
Port of Ventspils
1995 –
Forestry in Latvia


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