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Made his debut feature Away (2019) entirely alone — direction, animation, music and edit. Flow premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, César and two Annie Awards, and became the most-watched film in Latvian history — all made in free, open-source Blender.

He composes the scores for his own films, and is now writing and directing the follow-up, Limbo, at Dream Well Studio.

A graduate of NYU Tisch, he moved between documentary and fiction before co-writing and producing Flow. At Trickster Pictures he has directed Neon Spring and Sisters, and now produces Dream Well's next feature, Limbo.

Between productions he teaches the next generation of filmmakers at the Latvian Academy of Culture.

Holds a BA in the production of audiovisual and performance arts from the Latvian Academy of Culture, and spent three years coordinating the RIGA IFF Showcase programme. Her producing spans the modern fairytale North Pole (2024) and the anthropological comedy Darwin's Darlings (2023).

Shoots analog photography; her compass points toward arthouse distribution, sales and international co-production.

Son of pantomime and Baltic-sign artist Modris Tenisons, raised between Rīga and the Dzērbene countryside. Studied 3D animation in Canada, took a BA in screenwriting and visual semiotics in Wales — then spent five years in Cambodia, filming documentary material from motorcycles and helicopters and creating the national cookbook Culinary Traditions in Cambodia, used by the royal family as a diplomatic gift and recognised as Asia's notable fundraising book of 2014.

On Flow, his job was to think in step with the director — building each scene from the script, placing environments, characters and the rough camera for the Belgian and French animation teams to develop — and then to design the film's whole graphic identity: poster, titles, shirts, banners. The Flow postage stamp (its print run increased after the Oscar) and the Bank of Latvia silver coin are co-designed with Gints; the coin sold out its 6,000 mintage and was named Latvia's Coin of the Year 2025.

He also carries his father's legacy forward — idea author, architect and designer of the Čiurlionis Museum exhibition Modris Tenisons: Movement and Sign.

From the Jānis Rozentāls Art School and the Art Academy of Latvia, with further study in Ireland and Italy, she has exhibited across Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ireland, Belgium and Italy — earning the Brederlo–von Sengbusch Art Prize (2016) and the Valdemārs Tone Scholarship (2017). Her style leans into magical realism, blurring the boundary between physical reality and inner space.

She wrote and is directing The Nature of Tide, a hand-drawn animated short about perception and emotional memory; illustrated Latvijas Pasts' 500 Years of the Latvian Book stamp; reached the Bologna Children's Book Fair illustration finals (2023); and her RakstuRīga identity for the capital's birthday became a mural on Krišjāņa Barona iela. She lectures illustration at the Art Academy of Latvia.

The colours of this very page are sampled from her paintings.

With an MA from the Art Academy of Latvia, her scenography runs through productions like The Bastards, Lady Macbeth (assisting MAREUNROL), Burning Ones, Soft Power and Drama Queen — alongside public installations such as A Memorial to the Void, Touch the Shadow and Concrete Garden.

On Flow she was a 3D artist — her Flow's Flora grew the film's vegetation — and she built environmental art for Dog of God, blending classical artistic principles with modern technology.

Art-directed Linkin Park's animated music video Lost, created with director Maciej Kuciara for the Meteora 20th anniversary and nominated for Best Rock Video at the MTV VMAs — and he keeps designing the band's tour posters with Kuciara. On White Rabbit he owned the visual language end to end: effects, character and environment design, colour.

Now writing and set to direct Fishermen — an original sci-fi anime series set on a 500th-century Earth, self-produced in Blender in his distinctive style. Its reveal trailer has passed 1.3 million views.

GAMMA's Scenographer of the Year 2024 for his concert stage design; his videos and commercials have collected MTV Europe Music Awards, Clio Awards and Golden Hammers — among them BrainStorm's Ogles and VEF Rīga's Colourfully Black & White (Clio Sports Bronze, 2017).

A piece of Latvian hip-hop history: part of Fact — founded 1995, rap-rock with hardcore-punk guitar energy — alongside Gustavo, Ozols and Gonza. Made his short-film debut with Maukurs un Zivs, co-written with Jānis Joņevs. He is also a professional whistler — he calls it his second breathing, whistling outward and inward without pause — and has answered, at various times, to Čižiks and Jurgstulajstus.

His credits run through Latvian cinema — Flow, River of Fear, Touched by Eternity, and earlier work on Nameja gredzens, Bille, Dvēseļu putenis and more. On Flow he was brought in early for an unusual brief: helping figure out how a director who had always worked alone could work with a team.

It started with a camera and a skateboard in Valka and the TV show Block Heads. Today Shade's motion graphics, 3D and art direction run through campaigns like VEF Rīga's Black & White, music videos like Jānis Šipkēvics' Apgaismo mani, and concert visualizations on the largest LED stages ever assembled in Latvia. He also crosses the courtyard to Base Motion, art-directing its drone shows.

His credits run through Latvia's music scene — the lyric video for Instrumenti's Man patīk, computer animation for Laika Suns' Deju grīdas, 3D on LMT and Instrumenti's Instruments of Winter — and into international commercial animation, modelling on Indeed's Smart & Small series alongside Nauris and Konstantīns.

On Shade's Zoopasta — directed by Papa Či, creative direction by Nauris — he handled the modelling with Artūrs Lācis. The quiet, essential craft layer: turning visual ideas into designed, animated, polished screen work.

Studied film at the European Film College in Denmark and business management at the University of Latvia; spent years as an editor and director at Film Angels Studio — cutting Vogelfrei and Handful of Bullets, working on Dream Team 1935 and Nameja gredzens — then followed 3D, VR and visual art until drones became the medium.

Under his lead Base Motion has produced over 600 shows. For Super Bowl LVI the team designed and animated the display, inventing new animation techniques for a fleet that size; he now also judges the International Drone Show Competition. Alongside the shows, Base Motion researches film technology — Gaussian splatting included — and with Mārtiņš he co-founded XR Latvia — Keita Neihēfere's community — whose meetups regularly fill the stable.

Her focus is motorsport media: documenting race weekends, drivers and team moments for Base Motion Racing, turning the energy of the track into dynamic footage and social-ready edits.

Alongside racing she works on drone-show projects, where multimedia, animation, timing and large-scale visual design meet — a blend of technical production, creative direction and live-event media.

On Flow, he and Mārtiņš formed the technical-art department: he built the smaller simulations — splashes and spray — researched the film's stylized fur and feathers, and wrote shaders and scripts. The two have since presented the Flow pipeline at DigiPro at SIGGRAPH, Open Source Days and BCON Shenzhen.

His portfolio counts 96 works across 3D, installation, painting, print, video, rigging, coding and stereoscopy — two decades of freelance CG before feature film. He holds an MA in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia, where he now lectures, and rejects the split between the technical and the creative: both are one practice.

A lecturer at EKA University of Applied Sciences, she co-founded the games company LowpolyNation with her husband, Aivars Neihēfers, and has worked as Game Designer and Team Lead at Estoty Rīga — her game and level design spanning studio titles and a VR escape game. A speaker at RIGA COMM.

She founded XR Latvia (2018) — the Rīga non-profit community of AR/VR/XR developers and enthusiasts — and ran its monthly meetups, the gatherings that now fill the stable.

An EKA Computer Game Design graduate, he works across game design, 3D visualization and interactive VR. With the HyperVR Games team he has built playful, physics-driven titles including Shave & Stuff — a top-selling VR game on the Meta Quest Store — and Pets & Stuff, accessible VR simulation centred on creativity and physical interaction. With his wife, Keita Neihēfere, he co-founded the games company LowpolyNation.

Part of a new generation bringing Latvian game design and VR production to an international audience.

Before Physical Addons: a decade as lead technical artist on VR medical-training simulators in Sweden, Switzerland and Germany; 3D artist at France's Folimage on the feature Phantom Boy; programmer on Chris Milk's WebGL landmark 3 Dreams of Black for Google.

Author of the officially approved virtual model of the Biķernieki race track; teaches physical lighting and materials at the Jaņa Rozentāla Art School; gave the Blender Conference its GLSL-shaders-for-artists workshop back in 2013. Co-founder of Base Motion and XR Latvia.