BLON 2021 events

2021 archive
Let's play!
Let's play!

Herkus Kantas

Time to play! Want to find out how much you know about animation and video games? Take part in this quiz devised by Tomas Mitkus and Žilvinas Ledas to prove that you are the best!

Tomas Mitkus

Tomas Mitkus

Tomas Mitkus is a lecturer at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and an art director in co-founded animation studio MB “Studio Mitkus”. Tomas has worked in various live action and animated TV, feature, advertising, comic book and video games projects in Lithuania and abroad. Tomas is also a member of Lithuanian film board and an author of few academic books.
Žilvinas Ledas

Žilvinas Ledas

Žilvinas Ledas is PhD of informatics and develops video games more than 10 years now. He is a co-founder and CTO at Tag of Joy – an indie game development company which creates games merging fun and innovation. With their products the team has gained multiple awards at various international competitions. Žilvinas also teaches Game Development at Vilnius University and is active in local game development community.
Open Mic
Open Mic

An interactive networking evening during which a microphone will be presented for three minutes to anyone who wants to introduce themselves, present their companies, projects, ideas, and find likeminded people or colleagues.

Award Ceremony
Award Ceremony

Announcement of the Winner of the International Competition Programme, the award will be handed over by the International Jury for the Best Animated Short Film 2021.

Virtual reality in medicine - How storytelling in virtual reality can help to reduce children pain and fear
Virtual reality in medicine - How storytelling in virtual reality can help to reduce children pain and fear

We will present and showcase a virtual reality project / animation created by the charity foundation Auginame Ateitį, based on the children's book series “Arklio Dominyko meilė” by Lithuanian writer V. V. Landsbergis. The project is intended to facilitate and speed up vaccination for both children and medical staff. The experience takes the viewer into the fabulous world of the horse Dominykas, away from medical white robes and the walls of a vaccination room. Its goal is to introduce gamification to the entire vaccination procedure to reduce children's anxiety.

Paulius Juočeris

Paulius Juočeris

Paulius Juočeris - is project manager of the charity foundation „Auginame Ateitį“ and managing director of the interactive solutions company "Iron Cat“. Since 2011, after graduating in UCA (UK) and returning to Lithuania Paulius is active in the creative sector in Lithuania. Film projects, education, virtual reality, interactive projects - during more than ten years of work, Paulius presented several dozen award wining projects that spark the imagination in Lithuania.