„Ice“ won EFTA 2018 (Estonian Film and Television Awards) in the short films' category. The event took place in Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn and was broadcasted by three major Estonian television stations.
„Ice“ has been in more that 40 festivals in competition and has won 8 awards so far.
Short film "Ice" by Anna Hints participates in a film cassette "Fresh Blood: Us and Others" that consists of six Estonian short films premiered in 2017 and 2018 by young directors. The cassette is 91 min and allows the films to be screened in cinemas around Estonia.
"Ice" has participated in 28 festivals and won four awards so far:
Young director/writer Urmas Reisberg won the Baltic Pitching Forum in Vilnius in October with his short futuristic thriller project “Dark Side Of The Earth” of the two pilots fathal trip to the “Dark East” – the territory, which has become unliveable because of the climat catastrophe – thousands of kilometres of abandoned cities, roads, bridges...
“Dark Side Of The Earth” was selected to be presented at the EURO CONNECTION, a part of the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, to help finding European co-production partners.
Nicola Piovesan’s retro-futuristic punk short film “Attack Of The Cyber Octopuses” started it’s International festival round being nominated for the Main Prize in competition in Kaohsiung Film Festival Taiwan in November 2017. Nicola himself visited the festival and had several screenings and Q&A with audience.
On July 21-st, multitalent Nicola Piovesan premiered his neopunk short film “Attack of Cyber Octopuses” in Tallinn arthouse theatre “Sõprus”. Nicola introduced the project, his experience in using Kickstarter and thanked his multinational crew.
The 30 min. behind the scenes documentary was also shown to the audience.
The film is shot in Tallinn and Tokyo and will be distributed widely to the Kickstarter backers, short and sci-fi film festivals, VOD platform and sci-fi/fantasy orientated satellite and TV channels.
This retro-futuristic cyberpunk short film takes place in Neo-Berlin, 2079 - a dark and rain-soaked city held by mega corporations where the only way for people to enjoy life is by connecting into cyberspace and taking the “Binary Trip” a cyber drug that fries your neurons but promises a feeling better than a hundred orgasms at once…
Nicola Piovesan is young internationally awarded film-maker living and working in Estonia.
This is a humorous coming of age story about Johannes, whose destiny is to be always separated from his loved ones by an “iron curtain”. It is a story about being different, having hair when everyone else is bald and being bald when everyone else has hair… escaping with a toy car from a place that officially does not exist, brawling at school, 10–year old Johannes finally finds acceptance through love.
The film will be shot in 2018 in co-production with Finnish company Bufo AB.
Internationally decorated Lauri Randla’s “Mausoleum” recently winning Best Narrative Award at the Discover.Film in London, was released theatrically in Tallinn “Artis” Cinema 23.03 – 6.04 2017 and in Tartu “Elektriteater” 3.04 2017, as one of the three short films of the Estonian “Horror Anthology”.
Late 2016 Mumbai Shorts awarded “Mausoleum” with “Honorable Jury Mention”
WorldFest-Houston pre-awarded “Mausoleum” with Remi Award for Short Films.
Film continues competing at the festival in the Major Category Winners.
“You have now joined the ranks of Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas, the Cohen Brothers, David Lynch...and others as WorldFest-Houston Remi Award Winners, so this is an exceptional accomplishment”
Kelly Mann - Entry director
Exitfilm production “Mausoleum” of the Pathologist Abrikosov’s critical night, by Lauri Randla was nominated to EFTA Awards in the Short Films category.
“Mausoleum” continues successfully its travel at the world film festivals.
Estonia to acknowledge 113 people with decorations of the Republic of Estonia on the eve of Independence Day
Peeter Urbla, the CEO of Exitfilm had the honor.
President Kersti Kaljulaid will award state decorations to 113 people on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia to acknowledge their commitments to professional life or society that have helped to make Estonia better.
Peeter Urbla’s documentary of the prominent Estonian painter – “Tiit Pääsuke and the Blended Colours” was premiered in Artis Cinema Theatre Dec. 22nd 2016 and was screened during one month, having good audience numbers for the documentary film.
Lauri Randla with his short film “Mausoleum” (black satire of the pathologist Abrikosov’s thrilling night in Lenin’s mausoleum, performing Victor Kotovicz von Lahnberg) is nominated for the Next Nordic Generation prize, which will be announced during the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund August 20-26.2016.
Edina Cüllög’s magic reality short film with Nero Urke “The Butterfly Man”, of the Boruslawski Circus young magician’s assistant’s fatal realizing his chance and turning into thousands of butterflies, is selected in competition for the “Court Metrange” international fantastic and etrange short film festival in Rennes France 19-23.10.2016
“The Butterfly Man” was exposed in China at the Ningbo CEE IFF 8-19.06. 2016
The short film of the magician’s assistant turning into thousands of butterflies - "The Butterfly Man” by Edina Csüllög, performing Nero Urke, was selected to be the sole representative for Estonia at „ONE COUNTRY ONE FILM” Film Festival in the short films section in Apchat, France 29.-31.07.2016.
Two days prior to the Estonian Independence Day, on 22nd of February the shootings for a short film "Ice" ended. It was a 7 day shooting in Finland, on a small island near Oulu, called Hailuoto. It was the first Estonian production entirely shot in Finland.
"Ice" is a story of a father who tries to understand, forgets to listen but remembers to love in the very end.
Scriptwriters were Greta Varts and Anna Hints, director Anna Hints, DoP Tõnis Tuuga, production designers Anneli Arusaar and Matis Mäesalu, producer Eero Talvistu. Lead actors: Mait Malmsten, Aksel Ojari.
