Priit Pärn
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing19
movieLuna Rossa
2024
Director
movieDivers in the Rain
2009
Director
movieBlack Ceiling
2007
Director
movieRugrats Go Wild
2003
Co-Director
movieKarl and Marilyn
2003
Director
movieNight of the Carrots
1998
Director
movie1895
1995
Director
movieHotel E
1992
Director
movieAnimated Self-Portraits
1989
Director
movieBreakfast on the Grass
1987
Director
movieTime Out
1985
Director
movieThe Triangle
1982
Director
movie...And Plays Tricks
1978
Director
movieIs the Earth Round?
1977
Director
Writing33
movieLuna Rossa
2024
Writer
movieA Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
2018
Script Consultant
movieFatcula
2016
Script Consultant
movieLife with Herman H. Rott
2015
Script Consultant
XYZtopia
2013
Script Consultant
movieCrocodile
2009
Script Consultant
movieMarathon
2006
Script Consultant
movieThe Pearlman
2006
Script Consultant
movieFrank & Wendy
2005
Writer
movie1895
1995
Writer, Dialogue
movieHotel E
1992
Writer
movieNoblesse Oblige
1989
Writer
movieGiraffe
1986
Writer
movieTime Out
1985
Writer
movieThe Pigeon Lady
1983
Writer
movieThe Triangle
1982
Writer
Art21
movieLuna Rossa
2024
Art Direction
movieThe Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
2017
Art Direction
movieDivers in the Rain
2009
Art Direction, Background Designer
movieLife Without Gabriella Ferri
2008
Art Direction
movieI Feel in the Back of My Head...
2007
Art Direction
movieFrank & Wendy
2005
Art Direction, Background Designer
movieKarl and Marilyn
2003
Art Direction
movie1895
1995
Art Direction
movieHotel E
1992
Background Designer, Art Direction, Art Designer
movieBreakfast on the Grass
1987
Art Direction
movieGiraffe
1986
Art Direction
movieTime Out
1985
Art Direction
movieThe Pigeon Lady
1983
Art Direction
movieThe Triangle
1982
Art Direction
movie...And Plays Tricks
1978
Art Direction
movieSunday
1977
Art Direction
movieIs the Earth Round?
1977
Art Direction
movieA Romper
1975
Art Direction
movieThe Simpletons
1974
Art Direction
Editing9
Acting6
Visual Effects6
四季
2017
Animation Director
Don't Wake Up
2017
Supervising Animation Director
Pilots on the Way Home
2014
Character Designer, Animation
movie1895
1995
Character Designer
Production4
movieZorg II: Fall Of Thera
2020
Producer
Layers
2020
Producer
movieFly Mill
2011
Producer
movieSong of Songs
2010
Producer
Crew1
movieManivald
2018
Dramaturgy