Matīss Kaža
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- Latvia
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Yearsactive2012–present
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| Born | Matīss Kaža August 31, 1995 |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
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Matīss Kaža (born August 31, 1995) is a Swedish-Latvian filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing and co-producing the 2024 animated film Flow. For Flow, Kaža won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, making him the category's youngest ever winner at the age of 29.
Before Flow, Kaža wrote and directed documentary films such as Month of the Witches (2012) and One Ticket Please (2017) as well as directing Latvian-language drama films during his career such as Neon Spring and The Taste of Water (both in 2022). He is the founder of the production company Trickster Pictures[1] and has worked as lead producer at Gints Zilbalodis's Riga-based animation company Dream Well Studio.[2]
