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Shanghai Banzai
„Every city has his own Shanghai!“
„Shanghai Banzai“– it‘s an ironic short documentary about an old and poor district nearby Vilnius city centre called Snipiskes, which is also known as Shanghai. Film exposes a paradoxical situation where countryside with its multicultural (Lithuanians, Russians, Polish, Gypsies) community exists in the very centre of Vilnius. Also film tries to find out the origin of district’s nickname Shanghai.
Film portraits inhabitants of Vilnius Shanghai, who have their own rules, loves, habits and sins. Most of them live in their Past still remembering their youth. Now modern skyscrapers exchange old wooden houses and nobody knows what is waiting for “characters” of Shanghai.
Information
Year
2010
Genre
Documentary
Duration
25'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian
Team
Director
Producer
Asta Valčiukaitė
Script
Jūratė Samulionytė
Cinematography
Audrius Zelenius
Editing
Egidijus Žaliapūgas
Sound designer
Martynas Tamulis
Composer
Vygintas Kisevičius, Elena Neniškytė
Production company
VŠĮ “Kultūrinių projektų centras”
Director's biography
Juratė Samulionytė
Jurate Samulionyte was born in 1983 in Jonava. In 2007 Jurate got her MA in Film and TV directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She worked on several Lithuanian and foreign productions as a director assistant, script supervisor and as a producer assistant. Jurate Samulionyte is also developing her skills as a screenwriter. Her short stop-motion film “Noroutine” got the Silver Crane Award for Best Lithuanian Short Film 2008.
Filmography
Everest (2005, short fiction)
Once Upon a Time… (2005, short fiction)
Nas denik (2006, short documentary)
Portrait of Actress Ruta Staliliunaite (2006, short documentary)
Noroutine (2007, short fiction)
Metamorphosis (2008, short documentary)
Shanghai Banzai (2010, short documentary)
Temporarily (2011, short fiction)
What We Leave Behind (2017, feature documentary)
