Fausta Naujalė

Fausta Naujalė starts with the character. Always. Before a single garment is sourced or made, she needs... to know who this person is, what they carry, how they move, what they're hiding. That instinct, sharpened across 14 years, is what makes her work feel lived-in rather than dressed. Her credits speak for themselves: Slow, which took the Best Director prize at Sundance, Summer Survivors, screened at Toronto, and many other, all internationally distributed and critically recognised. On the commercial side, she brings the same character-led precision to brand work as she does to narrative film. For Fausta, no detail is neutral. The way a collar sits, the weight of a fabric, a single accessory that shouldn't work but does, everything is a choice, and every choice tells a story. She thrives in the fitting room: that charged moment where costume, actor, and director's vision finally meet. It's where she does her best thinking. And where her characters come to life. Read More