Māris Putniņš

Maris Putnins is one of the foremost family audience entertainers in Latvia for more than twenty years. He’s graduate of State Art Academy (1968) and Liepaja Institute of Pedagogy (1983). Maris Putnins is author of full length puppet animation feature Three Musketeers (2006, Latvia-Denmark-Scotland) and puppet series Rescue Team, Munk and Lemmy, Mischievs, Animals and Minifilms and a number of theatre plays. Since 2003 he’s started a large scale children’s adventure book series Wild Pies with four titles in the series already published, first book in the series is in-development proccess to become a full length puppet animation film. LITTLE ROBBERS is his fiction feature screenwriting debut.