Director Story

Mindaugas Survila, the director and cinematographer of The Ancient Woods had a dream to create this movie since he was in a fifth grade. A long journey was waiting for him towards this dream. Mindaugas joined Vilnius University, where he was granted a Bachelor’s degree in biology. At the end of his graduate studies of Ecology and Environmental Management Mindaugas finished his first movie Meeting the Ospreys (“Susitikimas su Žuvininkais“), which was awarded with a national Petras Abukevičius award for the best Lithuanian film about nature.