Eeva Mägi

Eeva Mägi (b. 1987) is an Estonian writer-director based in Tallinn, who’s active in the field of fiction films and documentaries. She graduated from Directing Documentaries at the Baltic Film and Media School in 2015. Since then, she has directed successful shorts as LEMBRI UUDU (2017) that had its premiere at DOK Leipzig and has later participated in many festivals such as PÖFF Shorts, Go Short, Sarajevo among others. Her hybrid doc THE WEIGHT OF ALL THE BEAUTY (2019) was longlisted to the to the Oscars after winning “Best Short Documentary” at Melbourne IFF, her latest short 3RD OCTAVE F (2022) won at PÖFF Shorts and is also longlisted to the Oscars. Recently she finished her first long form documentary WHO AM I SMILING FOR that premiered at Giffoni IFF (2023) and is the opening film of PÖFF Just Film (2023). Eeva received the Young Filmmaker’s Award by Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2018, then the Docpoint Tallinn Young Filmmaker Award in 2019. MO MAMMA (2023) is her first feature film.

Education:

• 2012-2014 Baltic Film and Media School, MA Directing Documentaries

• 2012-2016 Tartu University, PhD Intellectual Property Law

• 2010-2011 Maastricht University, LL.M Intellectual Property Law (cum laude)

• 2006-2010 Tartu University, BA Law