Priit Pärn

Directing·Aug 26, 1946·Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

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Priit Pärn (born August 26, 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his career in animation began when he accepted Rein Raamat's proposal to make a design for Kilplased (1974). After a brief apprenticeship in Joonisfilm, he directed his first film Is the Earth Round? in 1977. Pärn's most important films are considered to be Triangle (1982), Breakfast on the Grass (1987), Hotel E (1992), 1895 (co-directed by Janno Põldma, 1995) and Night of the Carrots (1998). Pärn's style is characterized by black humour, playful surrealism and a unique graphic style. His somewhat crude style marked the departure from both Rein Raamat's overtly serious and moralizing films as well as the Disneyesque style propagated by the directors of Soyuzmultfilm. In his footsteps (and occasionally copying his style to a large degree) have followed numerous new generation Estonian film makers, most notably Ülo Pikkov and Priit Tender. Influences of Pärn's graphical style can also be seen in such commercial animated series as Rugrats and AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! directed by Igor Kovalyov. In 2002 Pärn was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Animated Film Association, and he received Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2008. Divers in the Rain (2010), co-directed with his wife Olga Pärn, became the most successful Estonian animated film of all time with its 18th award at KROK International Animated Film Festival in Ukraine. Pärn had taught animation at the Arts Academy of the Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland since 1994 and now he is teaching at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Film	Credit
Luna Rossa2024 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story2017 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
PPilots on the Way Home2014 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Divers in the Rain2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Life Without Gabriella Ferri2008 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Black Ceiling2007 · Director	Director
I Feel in the Back of My Head...2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Karl and Marilyn2003 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Night of the Carrots1998 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
18951995 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Hotel E1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Animated Self-Portraits1989 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Breakfast on the Grass1987 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Time Out1985 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Triangle1982 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
...And Plays Tricks1978 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Is the Earth Round?1977 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer