Alante Kavaite

Lithuanian born, French based director Alanté Kavaïté began her career in front of the camera. Her first experience on set was playing a small role in the Lithuanian film "Jazz" (1992) before she emigrated to France. That formative experience fed her desire to tell her own unique stories. Her first feature film was a genre bending and lyrical story about a young woman investigating the murder of her mother. "Fissures" ("Écoute Le Temps") (2006) starred promising young actress Emelie Dequenne as the daughter, a sound engineer who bugs her mother's house hoping to hear the killer return. Instead, she stumbles on a fissure, where she can hear sounds from the past. Using these audio clues, she attempts to reconstruct the crime, and in the process learns about herself and her own past as well. The film received mixed reviews, but most admired the complex narrative and inventive style that Kavaïté used to explore her story. The film was optioned for an American remake to be produced by Joe Dante and Elizabeth Stanley. Kavaïté took quite some time between her first feature film and her second, producing one short film (2012's "How We Tried A New Combination of Light") in the interim. In 2014, it was announced that her film "Summer of Sangaile," filmed in her native Lithuania, would appear in the International Dramatic category of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.