Milda Baginskaitė is a Lithuanian screenwriter and director based in Manchester, UK. Her films have received several awards for best directing, production design and editing. She has also directed a handful of award-winning music videos and micro shorts.
Milda is a Berlinale Talents director and writer (Berlinale Talents Profile) and a selected member of BAFTA Connect and Directors UK.
Milda is an alumni of Screen Yorkshire's development program FLEX. The TV series she has developed during the program with a team has been optioned by a Warner Bros Discovery production company.
Milda also directs theatre. Her collaboration with writer and producer Chesca Cholewa and their hybrid theatre and film production "My Old Man" (Imagine If Theatre Company) has toured UK theatres in 2021.
Milda's experimental short film "The World Is Ours For The Taking", funded and supported by New Creatives North, BBC Arts and Arts Council England is soon to be released on BBC iPlayer. Her BFI funded short "True Colours" that she has directed collaborating with writer Suman Hanif (Beyond Productions Ltd) is currently in the festival circuit.
Milda's previous films "Teddy" (Girls in Film and Dr Martens film fund), "Pink Pool" (Pili Mili Films), "7 Planets" (funded by Other Brother Studios) and "Apples" (graduation film from the Northern Film School) have competed and been nominated for several awards in the international film festivals such as Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia, New York International Children's Film Festival, London SFF, Aesthetica SFF, Brest European SFF to name a few.
At the moment, Milda is in development of her first feature film and writing drama series.