Editors

Boris Jaanikosk

1897 - 1976

Jüri Jaanus

Julia K. Jacobsen

Bodil Jaerhauge

Peeter Jahe

Polina Jakjan

Olev Jaksi

Baiba Jakubaite

Kaspar Jancis

1975

Born on May 8, 1975 in Tallinn.

He has been interested since childhood in drawing comic strips and writing stories for which he made illustrations himself.  His first moving pictures came into being in the corners of his school notebooks.  Later in his school years, his brother's friend, who was a member of a film club, helped him make a short plasticine puppet animated film.  

This was followed by a two-year period as a working youth, which was not particularly educational, but was brimming with adventures.  During that time he began working systematically with music.  He has been part of the creative core of several rock groups, written song lyrics, made arrangements and created tunes.  He enrolled at the Tallinn Pedagogical University in 1996.

He completed his first films at that school - the silent film "Dr. Maisarve and the Matshalka Case" (1996) and the cutout puppet film "Flight of the Little White Helicopter" (1996), which was screened at rock concerts and also on television.  He transferred from the Pedagogical University to the Turku Arts and Media School in Finland in 1997 to study animation under the guidance of Priit Pärn.

He made his debut film "Romance" (1999) in Turku, and it has participated in several international film festivals.

Edmunds Jansons

Rain Järv

1983

Elar Järvet

Toomas Järvet

1976

Toomas Järvet has studied law and cultural theory, but always had a crush for photography and cinema. Things clicked when he went for the master degree

in Visual Anthropology at Barcelona University. He was selected for the IDFA Academy (2011) and was also a participant at the Berlinale Talent Campus

(2013). His first short documentary “Over and Out” was in competition at the Visions du Réel (2012) and several other festivals. His first

feature documentary was “Rough Stage”.

Thijs Jaspaert

Karlis Jaunzems

Ziemowit Jaworski

Mirjam Jegorov

Jelio Jelev

Red Hung Huei Jen

Salme Jevdokimova

1935 - 2020

Urmas Jõemees

1963 - 2023

Andres Jõenurm

Raimo Jõerand

1972

Born in July 15, 1972 in Tallinn. Freelance scriptwriter and film director, lecturer of several courses about documentary, film editing and scriptwriting in Estonian universities. 2006-2012 worked at Estonian Film Institute as a Documentary and Development Consultant. 2013-2015 President of Estonian Cultural Endowment Audio-Video Department. Raimo Jõerand in his films this far has touched on subjects with great importance to the history of Estonia: the creation of Estonian state in 1917–1920 – „Moment of History“ („Hetk ajaloos“), the fall of it in 1944 – „Blue Hills“ („Sinimäed“) and the regaining of independence in 1992–1994 – „Rodeo“.

Georg Jõesaar

Sander Joon

1990

Sander Joon is an Estonian animation artist. He works with 2D and 3D digital animation, as well as traditional hand-drawn animation. In his work, Joon focuses on the consequent design and uses animation to create surreal worlds with a dash of humor. His films Velodrool (2015), Moulinet (2017), and Sounds Good (2018) have screened at festivals all over the world and won awards from several festivals, among others Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival, PÖFF Shorts, Kaboom Animation Festival and Fredrikstad Animation Festival. He’s currently working on his short Sierra, which is set to premiere in 2022.

Felipe Jose

Krasimir Jovanovic

Arnold Juhkum

1895 - 1966

Marju Juhkum

1946

Mervi Junkkonen