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Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Biography

  • Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated MA degree in animation at Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013. She made her first animation Fly Mill (Kärbeste veski, 2012) a puppet film as her graduation film. Fly Mill has screened in numerous festivals around the world and won about 20 prizes. Her first film after graduation, a short animated film On The Other Side Of The Woods (Teisel pool metsa) premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival and has won three First Prizes and a Best Debut prize at festivals.

    Anu-Laura has just finished her new puppet film Winter In The Rainforest which is shot outdoors in the rainforest with porcelain puppets as characters. The project received the Best Project prize at Baltic Pitching Forum in Vilnius Lithuania, in October 2015 and was selected to participate at European Short Film Co-production Forum Euroconnection as part of 38th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand in France in February 2016. The film is a coproduction with Estonia, Mexico and Lithuania and will be released in May 2019.

    She has made set designs for short stop motion animations such as The Lemonade Tale (2013) by Vallo Toomla, Tik-Tak (2015) and Empty Space (2016) by Ülo Pikkov at Nukufilm studio in Estonia and It’s About Time (2014) in Atomart studio in Latvia. She has worked as a puppet designer for a feature stop motion Morten on the Ship of Fools (2018, Estonia, Ireland, Belgium) by Kaspar Jancis and a short stop motion film Man Wanted (2019, Greece, Estonia) by Irida Zhonga.

    FILMOGRAPHY

    DIRECTOR

    Winter In The Rainforest / Talv vihmametsas

    Nukufilm Studio (Estonia), Moon Birds Studios (Estonia), Estudio Carabás (Mexico), Art Shot (Mexico), 2019

    Roots / Juured

    Animated clips by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg; Directors: Aljona Suržikova, Anna Hints, Moonika Siimets, Kersti Uibo, Heilika Pikkov, Nora Särak; Producer: Studio Silmviburlane, 2018

    On The Other Side Of The Woods / Teisel pool metsa

    Nukufilm, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Estonian academy of Arts, Estonia, 2014

    Fly Mill / Kärbeste veski Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia, 2012

     

    DESIGNER

    Empty Space (Tühi ruum, 2016 dir Ülo Pikkov, Nukufilm Studio)

    Tik-Tak (2015 dir Ülo Pikkov, Nukufilm Studio )

    t’s About Time (2014 dir Ivo Briedis, Atomart studio, Latvia)

    The Lemonade Tale (Limonaadi lugu, 2013 dir Vallo Toomla, Nukufilm Studio )

    Captain Morten and the Spider Queen (will be released 2018 dir Kaspar Jancis, Nukufilm Studio)

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