Priit Pärn

Priit Pärn

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1946-08-26 (77 years old)

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Biography

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.

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Filmography

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Movies 47

Director 20

Writer 6

Producer 3

self 1

Producer
Zorg II: Fall Of Thera

Zorg II: Fall Of Thera (2020)

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Producer
Layers

Layers (2020)

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Editor / Script Consultant
A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts

A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts (2019)

Movie
Editor
Cante

Cante (2019)

Movie
Dramaturgy
Manivald

Manivald (2018)

Movie
Supervising Editor
Music Box

Music Box (2018)

Movie
Director
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story (2017)

Movie
Animation Director
四季

四季 (2017)

Movie
Script Consultant
Fatcula

Fatcula (2016)

Movie
Script Consultant
Life with Herman H. Rott

Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)

Movie
Director
Pilots on the Way Home

Pilots on the Way Home (2014)

Movie
Script Consultant
XYZtopia

XYZtopia (2013)

Movie
Priit Pärn in Tallinn

Priit Pärn in Tallinn (2013)

Movie
Editor
Breakfast on the Grass

Breakfast on the Grass (2011)

Movie
Producer
Song of Songs

Song of Songs (2010)

Movie
Script Consultant
Crocodile

Crocodile (2009)

Movie
Director
Divers in the Rain

Divers in the Rain (2009)

Movie
Director
Space Chimps

Space Chimps (2008)

Movie
3
Director
Life Without Gabriella Ferri

Life Without Gabriella Ferri (2008)

Movie
Director
I Feel in the Back of My Head...

I Feel in the Back of My Head... (2007)

Movie
Script Consultant
Marathon

Marathon (2006)

Movie
Script Consultant
The Pearlman

The Pearlman (2006)

Movie
Self
Pärnography

Pärnography (2005)

Movie
Writer
Visions of Europe

Visions of Europe (2004)

Movie
Writer
Frank & Wendy

Frank & Wendy (2004)

Movie
Director
Rugrats Go Wild

Rugrats Go Wild (2003)

Movie
5.4
Director
Karl and Marilyn

Karl and Marilyn (2003)

Movie
Director
Night of the Carrots

Night of the Carrots (1998)

Movie
Director
1895

1895 (1995)

Movie
3.5
Director
Hotel E

Hotel E (1992)

Movie
Director / Writer
Animated Self-Portraits

Animated Self-Portraits (1989)

Movie
Writer
Noblesse Oblige

Noblesse Oblige (1989)

Movie
Writer
Theatre Papa Carlo

Theatre Papa Carlo (1988)

Movie
Director
Breakfast on the Grass

Breakfast on the Grass (1987)

Movie
Writer
Giraffe

Giraffe (1986)

Movie
Director
Time Out

Time Out (1985)

Movie
Writer
The Pigeon Lady

The Pigeon Lady (1983)

Movie
Rashid
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter (1982)

Movie
Director
The Triangle

The Triangle (1982)

Movie
Director
Some Exercises in Preparation of an Independent Life

Some Exercises in Preparation of an Independent Life (1981)

Movie
Director
...And Plays Tricks

...And Plays Tricks (1978)

Movie
Art Direction
Sunday

Sunday (1977)

Movie
Director
Is the Earth Round?

Is the Earth Round? (1977)

Movie
Art Direction
A Romper

A Romper (1975)

Movie
ProductionDesigner
The Simpletons

The Simpletons (1974)

Movie
Rebel (uncredited)
The Last Relic

The Last Relic (1970)

Movie
Director
Luna Rossa

Luna Rossa

Movie

Ratings

Average 4.77
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1970
1987
2005
1998
2020
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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1946-08-26 (77 years old)

Birth Place
Tallinn, Estonia

Citizenships
Soviet Union, Estonia

Awards
Order of the White Star, 3rd Class


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