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Baltic Film, Media, Arts And Communication School Of Tallinn University
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University (BFM) is a film and media school created in 2005 (as Baltic Film and Media School) as a college of Tallinn University, one of the biggest educational institutions in Estonia. BFM offers a wide-based education in an international environment. The study programmes offer tools and skills for working on various positions in film production, TV, new media, communication, choreography, art and music. BFM provides students with free shooting and post-production equipment, studio space and production support for their creative works, supervised by established professionals from the audiovisual industry. The school is situated in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia and the European Capital of Culture in 2011. Programs BFM offers programs at the Bachelor's, Master's and PhD level, in Estonian and English. BFM Training BFM Training is the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School's training unit that offers tailor-made trainings and produ ...
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Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ...
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Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ...
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Tallinn University
Tallinn University (TLU; et, Tallinna Ülikool, ''TLÜ'') is a public research university in Estonia. Located in the centre of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn University is one of the three largest institutions of higher education in the country. Both QS World University and Times Higher Education rankings place it among the top 1000 universities in the world. History Tallinn University's predecessor, Tallinn Teachers' Seminar, was founded in 1919. Tallinn University in its present form was established on 18 March 2005 as the result of a merger of several universities and research institutions in Tallinn: Academic Library of Estonia (1946), Baltic Film and Media School (1992/97), Estonian Institute of Humanities (1988), Institute of History (1946) and Tallinn Pedagogical University (1919/52/92). In 2015, Tallinn University underwent a structural reform, whereby its 20+ structural units (the legacy of the numerous mergers leading to its establishment) were reorganiz ...
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Sass Henno
Sass Henno (born September 13, 1982 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian writer. He attended Miina Härma Secondary Grammar School in Tartu between 1989-2001. 2001-2003 he studied computer graphics and advertising in Tartu Art College, then film and video directing in the Tallinn University between 2003-2005. Since 2007 he has been attending a master’s level screenwriting course in Baltic Film and Media School. He won the first prize in Estonian Novel Competition 2005 with his work ''Mina olin siin. Esimene arest''. A feature-length film based on the novel was released in 2008 ('' I Was Here''). Henno worked in Estonian Television as an assistant and director. Since 2005 he has been a member of Estonian Writers' Union. Since 2010 he works as a CEO of Spring Advertising ad agency Royal Service event marketing agency. Henno also enjoys reading, sailing and shooting (IPSC). Bibliography * Elu algab täna (Life Starts Today e-book, 2003) * Mina olin siin. Esimene arest (I Was ...
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Kullar Viimne
Kullar Viimne (born 22 March 1980 in Võru) is an Estonian director, scriptwriter, editor and cinematographer. Between 2004 - 2011 he studied at the Baltic Film and Media School of Cinema, Tallinn University. Has furthered his education at film school FAMU (Czech Republic) and IAD (Belgium). He is a member of the Estonian Filmmakers' Union, the Estonian Audio Visual Arts Union and the Estonian Union of Journalists. Filmography A director * '' Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin'' (2014) * ''Jahis ainult naised''(2012) * '' Hing'' (2011) * ''Ultra Vennikased'' (2009) * ''Süütu'' (kaasautor, 2009) * ''Viimnepäev'' (2006) * ''Reis kerge pagasiga'' (2006) * ''Jumalaga'' (2004) * ''Kuhu lähed?'' (2003) Cinematographer * "Poissmees ja Volga" (dir. Aljona Surzhikova, 2014) *"Elizabethi mänguväljak" (dir. Maris Kerge ja Erik Norkroos, 2014) * "Kiirtee kordnik" (dir. Meelis Süld ja Meelis Muhu, 2014) * "Lained ja võnked" (dir. Marianne Kõrver ja Kaido Veermäe, 2014) ...
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Erik Norkroos
Erik Norkroos (born 1 October 1969 in Tallinn)Eesti filmi andmebaas
Retrieved 22 November 2016. is an Estonian cinematographer, producer, editor and director. Between 1993 and 1997 studied cinematography (master ) at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute nowadays known as Baltic Film and Media School, . Producing documentaries at Rühm Pluss Null/Missing Pictures and Umberto Productions.


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Tanel Toom
Tanel Toom (born 1 November 1982) is an Estonian director and screenwriter. Toom studied filmmaking at Tallinn University, graduating with a BA in 2005. After that, he worked as a director for commercials and as a first assistant director. In 2008, he completed his fourth short film, The Second Coming, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The apocalyptical war drama has since been screened at numerous film festivals and won several awards, including Best European Short at the Arcipelago International Film Festival. The same year, he decided to continue his studies at the National Film and Television School in England. He graduated from the NFTS with an MA in 2010 and shortly after that his diploma film The Confession won the Student Academy Award for Honorary Foreign Film and got him an Academy Award nomination for Live Action Short Film.
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Tiina Lokk
Tiina Lokk-Tramberg (born 1 October 1955) is an Estonian filmmaker, film teacher and politician, who was a member of the Riigikogu from 2012 to 2015, representing the Estonian Reform Party. Early life and education Born in Tallinn, Lokk graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow with a degree in film theory and criticism. Career Since 1997, she has been the director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and later became a member of the European Film Academy. She also has been a member of the editorial board, screenwriter and art council of Tallinnfilm for a decade before being a freelance journalist for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. She then founded and directed the movie label FilmaMAX. She has been a lecturer in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater (cultural organization) and the Estonian Academy of Arts (teaching film history, film scripts and management of cultural projects) and a professor of scriptwriting at the Baltic Film and ...
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Riho Västrik
Riho Västrik (born August 4, 1965) is an Estonian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, journalist, and historian. Biography Between 1988 and 2000, Västrik studied at the University of Tartu, where he received his bachelor's degree in history and journalism. He earned his master's degree in Film Arts at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn, where he has worked as an associate professor in film since 2009. From 1987 to 1990, Västrik was an actor in Tallinn's VAT Theater and, from 1990 to 1993, he worked on the editorial board of Estonian Radio. He was the chief editor of the news department for the Estonian television network RTV from 1993 to 1995. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as a news broadcaster for Eesti Televisioon. In 1996, he founded the Vesilind production company in Tallinn and has served as its managing director ever since. Västrik's documentary films focus on exploration in post-Soviet Eurasia, particularly in Siberia, the Far North, and Central Asia. He ...
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Taavi Varm
Taavi Varm (born 2 June 1979, in Tallinn) is an Estonian artist. Education Taavi Varm studied at the Tallinn Art Gymnasium (Estonia) in 1991–97. In 1997–98 he studied at Sogndal Folk High School (Norway). After graduating from high school Varm continued his studies at the Tartu Art College (Estonia). In 2012, he graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in media and advertisement design. His final thesis was the making of new media performance "FUNK KON". In 2013 began his studies on at Aalto University (Finland), master's degree in new media. Work Taavi Varm is a video and theater artist, designer, producer, idea generator, adviser – an interdisciplinary artist. Since 2001, he has been giving lectures in various Estonian universities (Tartu Art College, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School, University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy). As a video artist he has done over thirty theatre video and set design. Selection of ...
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Arvo Iho
Arvo Iho (born 21 June 1949) is an Estonian film director, cinematographer, actor and photographer, who has worked in the areas of documentary and drama.Rollberg, Peter (2016) ''Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema'', Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Second edition, , pp. 307–308 Career Born in Rakvere, Iho worked as a photographer and assistant for Tallinnfilm before studying cinematography at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Iho acted as assistant director to Andrei Tarkovsky on the 1979 film ''Stalker''.Parbat, Kalyan (2017)Arvo Iho: The man who took Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky to the 'Zone', ''The Economic Times'', 4 October 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2019 He went on to work as a cameraman for Tallinnfilm in the 1980s. In 1985, Iho co-directed the feature film ''Games for School–Age Children'' with Leida Laius, also acting as director of cinematography, and in 1987 made his solo directorial debut with '' The Birdwatcher'', about the relatio ...
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