MENTORSHIP
Audio documentary is a unique living being. It is neither pure sound art, nor solid journalism, nor public storytelling. It is something in between.
In this workshop of audio storytelling we will invite participants to play with documentary sound medium and accompany on your creative journey. We will try to find out how to use the audio narrative format to tell your own, your friends' or each other's stories in a compelling and authentic way.
Over the course of four meetings, participants will learn about the variety of documentary audio narratives, learn how to make high-quality recordings, learn interviewing and other techniques, and practice constructing an engaging, visual documentary narrative from different types of audio scenes. At the end of the mentorship course, each of the participants will be able to present the work produced during the programme at the closing event of the festival.
Mentors
Adamas Zubė
Radio producer, currently working with the journalist collective NARA as audio documentary producer. His stories have been featured on LRT RADIO and LRT KLASIKA, he is also one of the Banguoja audio festival organisers. In his creative practice, Adomas explores how audio journalism can be intertwined with sound art and how authentic voice recordings, together with other sound elements such as soundscapes, vibrations and music, can merge into a single, fluid sound texture.
Sigita Vegytė
LRT journalist and radio documentary producer. Her work focuses on socio-political issues, international relations, security and defence, highlighting human stories - she is interested in what people experience in liminal situations such as war. Her most recent works feature Russia's war against Ukraine and the migration crisis at the Belarusian/Lithuanian border. Sigita’s documentaries have been presented in many international festivals: Prix Europa, EBU International Feature Conference, Internazionale a Ferrara.
Kata Bitowt
Sound engineer working at the LNB sound recording studio and in collaboration with NARA. Working with both studio and external sounds, the biggest question remains: where are and how do the boundaries between sound, noise and music change?
Indre Kiršaitė
Journalist and editor, podcast and texts author at NARA. She graduated in journalism from Vilnius University, later worked at LRT Radio News Service and joined the NARA team in 2020. For the past few years, she has been focusing on audio documentaries, exploring social and human rights topics, and also taking part in media education.
Rūta Dambravaite
A journalist at LRT RADIO, where she produces the Radio Documentary programme. Rūta is interested in telling stories and finding her own way to do it every time. Ideas often come when you step away from the computer and the editing room, so it is important not to miss every possible chance to get inspired.
