Faculty

	Anneli Ahven, lecturer of film production Anneli holds MA degree in film production from Hamburg University, Institute of Film, Music and Theatre. Since 1995 she has been connected to production company Exifilm. Anneli has produced dozen films, among others full-lengh feature films “Shop of Dreams”, “Men at Arm”, “Where the Souls Go” and “Taarka”.
	Karol Ansip, lecturer of film history Karol received M.A degree from Tallinn University’s Estonian Institute of Humanities. She has produced several documentaries and has been working as a free-lance film critic and journalist.
	Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, associate professor of crossmedia Renira is designer and has lived, studied and worked in Brazil, Germany, Canada and Qatar. Her Postdoctorate in Film Studies is from Concordia University, Canada and she holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from São Paulo Catholic University, Brazil and Kassel University, Germany; a MA in Communication and Semiotics also from São Paulo Catholic University, Brazil and a Bachelor of Industrial Design from São Paulo State University, Brazil. Dr. Renira Gambarato developed an original methodology for film analysis which analyzes objects of material culture as signs in films. The results of this research can be found in her book Kulturdialoge Brasilien-Deutschland – Design, Film, Literatur, Medien, Berlin: Edition Tranvia and in Kodikas/Code: Ars Semeiotica, Volume 29, N. 1-3, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, for instance. For more details please see her website http://talkingobjects.org
	Dirk Hoyer, lecturer of media studies Dirk has lived and worked in Great Britain, Germany, France, Finland and Latvia. He holds an M.A degree in Information and Communication from the Univesity Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Director of several short films and a full-length feature “Detour”. Dirk has been teaching at BFM since 2006.
	Indrek Ibrus, lecturer of media innovation, head of crossmedia production MA program Dr. Indrek Ibrus received his PhD from the London School of Economics with a thesis on the evolutionary dynamics of mobile web-media forms. His MPhil comes from the University of Oslo. Prior to the academic career he worked several years in Estonian media in various capacities – positions in print and online media as wells as in Estonian Public Broadcasting. He still writes regularly for several media outlets in Estonia. At BFM he teaches courses on media innovaton, creative industries and research methods. His research interests focus on media production and innovation, especially the development of practices of crossmedia production and the evolution of the forms of mobile media. For more details please see his website.
	Arvo Iho, associate professor of film arts Arvo has directed four award-winning feature films that have traveled to festivals in Berlin, Karlovy Vary, Moscow and Manneheim, and another dozen as a cinematographer. He graduated from the Moscow State Film Academy (VGIK) as a cinematographer. Arvo set up the first academic film courses in Tallinn in 1992.

	Renita Lintrop, associate professor Renita has worked as a story editor, film editor and director. In 1991 she co-founded the film company FILMISTUUDIO SEE; together with Hannes Lintrop she has directed a number of award-winning documentaries and the feature “Too Tired To Hate” which was in the official selections of 39 international film festivals and has won numerous international awards.
	Tiina Lokk, lecturer of screenwriting Tiina Lokk is the initiator and director of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, a leading film festival in Northern Europe. She studied screenwriting at the Moscow State Film Academy. Tiina has published film criticism and taught film history and screenwriting at the Estonian Academy of Art and BFM.
	Ann Lumiste, associate professor of film design Ann Lumiste is a well-known artist and designer in Estonia with years of experience as theater, set and costume designer. Ann is associate professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts and BFM.
	Mait Mäekivi, associate professor of cinematography Mait graduated from Moscow State Film Academy (VGIK) in 1988 as a cinematographer. Over the past fifteen years, he has worked on number of documentaries and features as DoP. His latest credits include the features “Shop of Dreams” (2005), “Where the souls go” (2007) and “I was here” (2008).
	Sirje Runge, professor of liberal arts Sirje graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1975 as a designer. She has been an active artist for years. Besides BFM, Sirje teaches at Tallinn University and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
	Hagi Shein, lecturer of television studies and the Deputy Director of BFM Hagi has worked in TV in variety of roles for more than 40 years. He was the Director of Estonian Public Television from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the Broadcasting Council of Estonian Public Television and Radio from 2000. Teaching since 1986, Hagi represents Estonia in a working group on media policy in the European Council.
	Mart Soonik, lecturer of communications management Mart has worked as a journalist for seven years and since 1998 as a communication manager in different organizations. Mart graduated from University of Tartu as Master of Public Relations. He has been a lecturer of communication management since 2001. Mart is a member of the Estonian Public Relations Association since 2000.
	James Thurlow, adjunct lecturer of media James Thurlow graduated from the University of California in humanities. He pursued doctoral studies at the Charles University, Prague and received a Ph.D. degree from the Tallinn University Estonian Institute of Humanities.
	Piret Tibbo-Hudgins, adjunct lecturer of producing After graduating from the Moscow State Film Academy (VGIK), Piret co-founded one of the leading Estonian production companies Allfilm in 1995 and has worked as a producer since then. Her latest films include international co-productions “Ruudi” and “Vasha”. Piret sits on the board of the Association of Estonian Film Producers.
	Indrek Treufeldt, lecturer of television journalism Indrek received M.A. in journalism in 1996 from Tartu University (Estonia). During the 90’s, he worked as the spokesperson to the President of Estonia. From 2003 – 2007, Indrek was the permanent correspondent of Estonian TV in Brussels.
	Kersti Uibo, documentary masterclasses Having studied history at London University, Kersti Uibo chose documentary film as her vocation, studying documentary at the NFTS ( M.A). She is a “one-woman” auteur film-maker whose films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at documentary film festivals round the world (“Evald’s Acre”, “Diva in the Bath”, “Narrow is the Gate”, “Still Life with Wife”). Kersti has given master-classes at the Cologne Internationale Filmschule and at St Martins College of Art.
	Jarmo Valkola, associate professor film history and theory Jarmo Valkola wrote his Ph.D. on visual perception in relation to cinematic thinking. He is a Docent in Audiovisual Perception at the University of Lapland (Finland), and at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Jarmo has written twelve books on Cinema, Art, and Aesthetics. For more details please see his website
	Riho Västrik, lecturer of documentary Riho is internationally acknowledged documentary producer. Graduated from Tartu University (history) and Baltic Film and Media School (MA in Film Arts), he has produced over 20 documentary films and directed several of them. Unknown cultures and countries have been the main interest in Riho’s films. Since 2009 is Riho lecturer of documentary at Baltic Film and Media School.