One Ticket Please

One Ticket Please (Vienu biļeti, lūdzu!), 2017

(64 min, documentary, Latvia/USA)

One Ticket Please is a documentary about the life of a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world’s most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane been going to at least one play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means. Despised by many theater employees in New York for her behavior, Nicki prides herself with a staunch dedication to the art. But at what point does passion turn into addiction?

CREDITS

Director

Matīss Kaža

Producers

Matīss Kaža, Una Celma, Reid Hannaford, David Scherker

Writer

Matīss Kaža

Editor

Gunta Ikere

Cinematographer

Aleksandrs Grebņevs, LGC, Noah Weisfogel

Composer

Mārtiņš Brauns

Sound Designer

Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis

Production Designers

Matīss Kaža, Marija Luīze Meļķe, Luīze Lote Nežberte

Produced by

Deep Sea Studios / Fenixfilm / Apriori Collective

AWARDS

NewDoc Award for Best Debut

Tempo Documentary Festival 2017

FIPRESCI Award

Latvian National Film Awards 2017

New York Perspectives Award

Winter Film Awards 2018

Matīss Kaža

Matīss Kaža is an Academy Award-winning Latvian producer, director and writer. He is best known for co-writing and producing the animated feature film FLOW (2024) by Gints Zilbalodis, which won the first ever Golden Globe and Oscar for an independent animated feature. Recent producing credits include SISTERS (2022, Warsaw Film Festival 1+2 Competition Winner) by Linda Olte, DROWNING DRY (2024, two awards in the Locarno Main Competition) by Laurynas Bareiša.

Matīss has directed and written for live action, documentary and the theatre, including NEON SPRING (2022, Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival) and critically acclaimed performances at the Latvian National Theatre, like SOFT POWER (2023) and THE NATIONAL NETWORK (2025).

He teaches film directing at the Latvian Academy of Culture.

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