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| Name: Mark Soosaar |
| Born: January 12,
1946, in Estonia |
| Education: Moscow Film
Institute |
| Diploma:
Cinematographer, 1972 |
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| Personal e-mail
address: docfest@chaplin.ee |
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Employed: |
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Estonian Television,
1970 - 78 as a film director |
| Tallinnfilm Studios,
1978 - 91 as a film director |
| Free lance film maker
1991 - 96 |
| Museum of New Art,
1995 - since today as the director |
| Riigikogu (Estonian
Parliament), 2003 -since today as MP |
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| International
activities: |
| 1987 - since today,
the International Documentary Film Festival in Parnu, Estonia, Director. |
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2000 - since today, an
audiovisual training instructor and media expert for UNESCO. |
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Teaching film making: |
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in the University of
Berkley in 1989. |
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in the University of
Montana in 1991. |
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in the Cultural
University of Ulaanbaatar in 2000,2001,2002. |
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Created more then 50
documentary films on ethnography, folklore, arts.
One feature film on national uprising in Estonia in 1905, one photo book on traditional
life on Estonian islands.
8 films by him are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.3 times his films were shown in the official program of the Berlin
Film Festival (1988, 1994, 1998) |
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His major documentaries include: |
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WOMAN FROM KIHNU |
1973 |
International premiere in the Cinematheque Francaise, November
1975,Grand Prize of Nuoro Film Festival, Italy, 1990. |
| LA CONCUPISCENCE |
1977 |
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| CHRISTMAS IN VIGALA |
1980 |
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| MAN FROM KIHNU |
1985 |
Silver Dowe of Leipzig Film Festival, 1987. |
| MISS SAAREMAA |
1989 |
aired on ARTE in 1990. |
| STATE ELDER |
1991 |
Premiere in the MoMA, New York, 1991. |
| GRANDMA OF BOATS |
1993 |
Bilan of Ethnographique, Paris. |
| MISSION IMPOSSIBLE |
1995 |
Premiere in the UNITED NATIONS HQ's, NYC, in
October 1995. |
| FATHER, SON AND HOLY TORUM |
1997 |
PRIX NANOOK of the Bilan Ethnographique, Paris,
1997,
Golden Gate Award of San Francisco Film Festival, 1998 |
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PAVAROTTI IN ESTONIA |
1998 |
Moscow Film Festival 2005 |
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TO COME TO PASS ON |
1999 |
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SANTA CLAUS FROM SWEDEN |
1999 |
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NIKOLAI STREET IN PÄRNU |
2001 |
Cracow Film Festival 2004 |
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LA PALOMA |
2001 |
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ANU RAUD: PATTERNS OF AN ARTIST'S LIFE |
2002 |
Grand Prize of Bergamo Art Film Festival, 2003 |
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HOME FOR BUTTERFLIES |
2004 |
Docpoints, Helsinki 2006 |
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FOOLING DUTCHMAN |
2005 |
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THREE SCULPTORS |
2005 |
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A VOICE BETWEEN SKY AND EARTH |
2006 |
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