Little Incidents

Little Incidents is a web-series about incompatible and, frankly speaking, quite egocentric people that, despite of hating each other, are forced to co-habit.

  • Aiste Ptakauske
    Director
    Ethnic Kitchen (Pasaulio virtuve)
  • Aiste Ptakauske
    Writer
    Ethnic Kitchen (Pasaulio virtuve)
  • Aiste Ptakauske
    Producer
    Ethnic Kitchen (Pasaulio virtuve)
  • Milda Vasiliauskaite
    Key Cast
    "Roberta"
  • Mantas Dabrovolskas
    Key Cast
    "Vytis"
  • Gabriele Petrosiute
    Key Cast
    "Juste"
  • Arturas Kavaliauskas
    Director of Photography
  • Arturas Kavaliauskas
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Gyvenimelis
  • Project Type:
    Student, Web / New Media
  • Country of Origin:
    Lithuania
  • Country of Filming:
    Lithuania
  • Language:
    Lithuanian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Aiste Ptakauske

Aiste Ptakauske (Lithuania) is a published author and creative content producer who successfully works across media and continents. She authored a collection of short stories and two best-selling novels for young adults, wrote five television shows, and made two documentaries. Ethnic Kitchen, Aiste Ptakauske’s documentary about immigrant women in post-Soviet independent Lithuania, is included into curricula at several European universities. Aiste Ptakauske is a winner of many prestigious national and international awards including an Augustinas Gricius Prize for the Best Fiction Debut in Lithuania, a Fulbright scholarship, and an Iconic Women Creating a Better World for All award from the Women Economic Forum. Aiste Ptakauske is constantly invited to lecture, teach, and coach in different parts of the world. She is also a founder of The Ethnic Kitchen Productions, a boutique development company that produces socially relevant audiovisual and cross media projects.

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Director Statement

The web series Little Incidents is a result of many years of my work with and for young audiences in Europe and beyond. I have written two novels for young adults and two plays that are being produced by youth theatres in Lithuania and abroad. I also facilitated many storytelling and creativity workshops for young adults in Europe, Northern Africa, North America and elsewhere. In the course of my career, I have noticed defining paradigm shifts in the behavioural patterns of young people. On the one hand, full immersion into informational communication technologies make them less and less comfortable with face-to-face interactions. On the other hand, constant (re)presentation of themselves in social media exposes them to an enormous pressure to look and be perfect. But is it possible to live your entire life fencing yourself off of everything that causes you even the slightest discomfort? Life stories of the protagonists of Little Incidents shows that it is not. In the web series, the main characters are forced to live with people whom they would never choose to live with. Moreover, they are not prepared for this challenge! The web series touch upon different themes: gender equality, immigration, religion, etc. But they do it in a light-hearted and comedic way, inviting our audience for an open dialogue and reflection always stressing the main bottom line: only in dealing with 'the other' you learn to deal with yourself.