Creative Industries Television

Creative Industries Television (KiTV) was established at the VILNIUS TECH Faculty of Creative Industries in 2018. It aims to develop students’ creativity, teamwork and problem solving skills, cross-cultural competences, as well as abilities to develop and produce serialized audiovisual content.

KiTV’s founder and manager is Aiste Ptakauske, an award-winning content creator and educator who successfully works across media and continents. She authored a collection of short stories and two best-selling novels for young adults, made two documentaries, and worked on almost 300 episodes of TV and web series in the capacity of a screenwriter, supervising producer, head writer or creator. Ethnic Kitchen, Ptakauske’s documentary about immigrant women in post-Soviet independent Lithuania, was included into the international film festival Ethnografilm as well as curricula of several universities in Europe and beyond. For her web series Little Incidents that she created for KiTV, Ptakauske received the Best Creator award at Seoul Webfest 2019.
Aiste Ptakauske holds an MA in Television-Radio-Film from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York, USA, and is an alumna of the 2012 MediaXchange program "Showrunner Exchange: TV Drama, Los Angeles“, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab 2013, European TV Drama Lab 2018, and MIDPOINT TV Launch 2021.

At KiTV, students are regularly coached by esteemed film and television professionals from across the globe: the director of photography Arturas Kavaliauskas (Lithuania), the composer and sound designer Douglas Quin (USA), the camerawoman and director Muriel Aboulrouss (Lebanon), Prof. Dr. Eva Stadler (Germany), et al.

HOW TO ENROLL IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TELEVISION

At KiTV, VILNIUS TECH students develop and produce short form documentary web series. 

Students of all disciplines and nationalities are welcome!

Student production teams meet every Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Since all production teams are cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, the primary language of communication at KiTV is English.

Students that would like to get 3 ECTS credits for their contribution to KiTV activities, should enroll in one of the following courses:

KIPIB91002 Producing for TV in Autumn Semester
ANNOTATION OF THE COURSE
Producing for TV is a course that familiarizes students with techniques and processes of producing entertainment and documentary television. Students get an opportunity to practice these techniques and processes in cross-cultural groups consisting of both Lithuanian and international students. The language of instruction is English, but students may choose to complete the assignments either in English or in Lithuanian.

KIPIB91003 TV Development in Spring Semester
ANNOTATION OF THE COURSE
TV Development is a course that familiarizes students with techniques and processes of developing entertainment and documentary television. Students get an opportunity to practice these techniques and processes in cross-cultural groups consisting of both Lithuanian and international students. The language of instruction is English, but students may choose to complete the assignments either in English or in Lithuanian.

Students that do not need any ECTS credits for their contribution to KiTV activities, should enroll in Creative Industries Television by sending an email to crypt:a2l0dkB2aWxuaXVzdGVjaC5sdA==:xx by September 2 in Autumn Semester and by February 2 in Spring Semester.

Watch KiTV on YouTube and follow KiTV on Instagram