Vytautas Katkus was born on 3 September 1991, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
He graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master's degree in cinematography and directing in 2014, and began working as a camera assistant on around twenty films and commercials in Lithuania and abroad.
Vytautas Katkus has twice won the award for Best Young Director of photography from the Lithuanian Association of Directors of Photography, of which he has been a member since 2016.
In 2019, his first short film Collective Gardens was selected for the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week, and his second short film Places premiered in 2020 at the Venice Film Festival as part of the Orizzonti program.
After several collaborations as a cinematographer and cameraman with producer Marija Razgutė and M-Films, he directed his third short film, Cherries, in 2022, produced by M-Films, which was selected in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival.
Vytautas Katkus is currently developing his first feature film, The Visitor, with screenwriter Marija Kavtaradzė and producer Marija Razgutė, a second collaboration with M-films and other international partners like Totem Films (France).
On each of his projects as a director, Vytautas Katkus had assistant director Robertas Nevecka.
