About the director:

Laila Pakalniņa was born in 1962 in Liepāja, Latvia. In 1986 she graduated from the Moscow University, Department of TV Journalism and continued her studies in the Department of Film Direction at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow (Russia), graduating in 1991.

Laila Pakalniņa is director and scriptwriter of award-winning documentaries “Three Men and a Fish Pond” (Par dzimteniti, 2008), “Snow Crazy” (Sniegs, 2012), shorts “Anna’s Christmas” (Anna Ziemassvetki, 1992), “Water” (Udens, 2006) and feature films “The Shoe” (Kurpe, 1998), “The Python” (Pitons, 2003) and “The Hostage” (Kilnieks, 2006).