The Producers

Dāvis Sīmanis- Director

Dāvis Sīmanis is a Latvian filmmaker and theorist. He has directed number of poetic documentary films as well as cross-genre features. Dāvis Sīmanis also lectures on the film theory and history in film schools in Latvia and Finland. Just received PhD, his main research object being devices of representing history in movies. His own films have participated and been awarded in number of festivals (IDFA; CPH:DOX; DOK Leipzig and others). His previous documentaries – D is for Division (2018) is a film dealing with the tension existing on the borders between Europe and Russia, and Escaping Riga (2014) is a docu-fiction on two world-class 20th century geniuses, the British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin and the Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein. Dāvis Sīmanis is also working on his latest feature fiction – The Year Before the War.

Guntis Trekteris - Producer

Guntis Trekteris is a Latvian film producer with more than three decades of experience in documentary and feature filmmaking.

From 1991 to 2006, he served as Managing Director and Producer at Kaupo Filma, one of the first independent film production companies in Latvia. Since 1991, he has produced more than 30 documentaries and 10 feature films. Many of these projects were international co-productions, earning awards at major international film festivals and securing worldwide distribution.

Between 1996 and 2002, Trekteris worked as Co-production and Training Coordinator at the Baltic Media Centre in Denmark. He later served as producer of the Baltic Sea Documentary Forum in 2002, 2003, and 2006, co-organized with European Documentary Network (EDN), the Baltic Media Centre, and the Latvian National Film Centre.

From 2004 to 2011, Trekteris was Chairman of the Latvian Film Council, the consultative body of the Latvian Ministry of Culture. Prior to that, he served as Vice-President of the Latvian Producers’ Association and was an active member of the Latvian Filmmakers’ Union and the European Producers Club.

In addition to his production work, Trekteris has been actively involved in film education. He has led film producing courses at the University of Latvia and RISEBA University.

In 2005, he founded the independent production company Ego Media.

Radim Procházka - Producer, Director, Writer

Born in 1975, Radim is a prominent Czech film and TV producer, director, mentor, and scriptwriter. He is responsible for over 20 feature films, half fiction, and has received Czech and international awards. He is a member of the European Film Academy and ACE Producer 20/21. Since 2012, he has been a mentor in directing courses at the international department of Prague's film school FAMU. He focuses on international co-productions and films by debut-making directors. For almost 20 years, he worked with a filmmaker of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Karel Vachek, whose last opus magnum, COMMUNISM AND THE NET OR THE END OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, premiered at the IFF Rotterdam in January 2020.

In 2019, he founded a new company, Kuli Film, as a professional background for his mostly arthouse animated, documentary, and feature films. In late 2025, he released the feature documentary DEATH OF DEATH by Latvian director Davis Simanis, which was awarded 3 nominations for Lavian annual film awards. His latest directorial effort, the experimental site-specific film collage SANITATION, was created for the super-wide screen of the Prague Center for Architecture and Urban Planning, where it premiered in February 2022. He collaborated on it with editor Jan Daňhel and composer Michal Rataj. In 2021, he defended his dissertation, for which he gained his PhD, with a piece entitled Festival work as a reference of the quality of Czech films: autoethnography of a producer in the filmmaking field.

Making The Film

Director's Statement

Immortality, anti-aging, fear of death. When I started the film, I just thought I’d learn how to live a little bit longer. But then things got weird. Scientists reviving pigs at Yale. People sticking neurochips in their heads. Bio-hackers giving out life-extending tips. The whole civilization is living in the age of transhumanism. And I am the only one who is left behind.

— Dāvis Sīmanis, Director, Death of Death