Entertainment and Film News Source www.Variety.com presents Alissa Simon’s review about the Lithuanian film The Collectress. Being selected to the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the film is screened at East of the West competition.

Electronic music fans gathered in Klapeda this weekend. Mobilizacija 2008 is a contemporary music festival for local composers and audiovisual art performers. Each year the citizens of Klaipeda can see and hear new projects of their fellow artists of Klaipeda. Titas was invited as the guest composer of this year.

Two films Titas Petrikis scored music for received the first Lithuanian Cinema awards -Silver Crane. Jurate Samulionyte's stop-motion film No Routine received Best Short's Film award whereas the feature film Collectress was announced the Best Feature Film. Both of the films successfully find their place at screenings of various international film festivals. No Routine already has been shown in Munich (Germany), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Hong-Kong (China). The Collectress is being transfered from HDV to 35mm and will be screened at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Titas Petrikis music (The Film 'Collectress') is nominated for a 'Silver Crane'. It is a national Lithuanian award for the best works in Television and Film branches and will be organized for the fist time in 2007.


14 'Silver Cranes' will be shared in such nominations: Feature Film, Documentary, TV Film, Animation, Short film, Directing, Script, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Art Direction, Cinematography, Soundtrack.

Jeronimas Milius presented the concept of his performance at the Eurovision song contest 2008. Exclusive presentation was organized just for the press at midnight of yesterday (May 9th, 2008) in Kalnu parkas (Vilnius, Lithuania).


Jeronimas Milius will sing a melody rock song "Nomads in the Night". He will perform alone on stage and plan to surprise everyone by his rich and powerful voice. Good looking guy will be dressed in an Icelandic style costume and accessories created by Egle Babilaite-Sitas.

TitasMusic.com presents a list of International festivals, where you can watch film Noroutine.


More news you can find at the official website of the film Noroutine.

The Lithuanian film festival Cinema Spring 2008 starts again. Seven new Lithuanian films were chosen for the festival program. Among them there are two films with Titas' original score. It is Noroutine by Jurate Samulionyte and The Collectress by Kristina Buozyte.

Titas Petrikis composed music for the feature length film The Collectress (dir. by Kristina Buozyte). Film music is rich of electronic sounds and instrumental melodies. To bring life and extra expression, strings were recorded together with Vilnius String Orchestra (conductor Tadas Sileika).

Titas Petrikis together with famous Lithuanian live-animator Aukse Petruliene organized an audiovisual laboratory '12 Ways to Conquer Fear'. The event took place at the Photography Museum of Siauliai on November 24, 2007 during the Contemporary art festival VIRUS 12.

TitasMusic.com presents a short video about this audiovisual laboratory.

“I knew I Belonged There” – Titas Petrikis talks on becoming a composer and participating in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2007.

Martin Blaney caught up with one of the three finalists of the 2007 Volkswagen Score Competition, Titas Petrikis, during the Baltic Event in Tallinn last December.

Read the entire interview here at Newsletter (January 2008).