Antra Cilinska works as a director – producer since 1992. She started as a film editor at Riga Film Studio working with the outstanding Latvian documentary film director Juris Podnieks on such world wide known films as Is It Easy To Be Young?, Hello, Do You Hear Us? (with Channel 4 UK) and Homeland. Since 1993 Antra has made a lot of documentaries for local and international audiences. One of the most interesting projects is the follow up series after ten and twenty years for Is It easy To Be Young? (with Channel 4 (UK), won FIPRESSI Prize in Leipzig Film Festival). Since 1994 Antra is running Juris Podnieks Studio, which is an independent film production company working with documentaries, animation and fiction film projects. Since 2008 also teaching at the Latvian Academy of Culture.