Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 26, 1946
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Credits
54 titles
Priit Pärn
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.
Known For
Filmography
Luna Rossa
Director
Gori the Caricaturist
Self
Zorg II: Fall Of Thera
Producer
Layers
Producer
Cante
Editor
Manivald
Dramaturgy
A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
Script Consultant
Music Box
Supervising Editor
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
Animation
四季
Animation Director
Don't Wake Up
Supervising Animation Director
Fatcula
Script Consultant
Life with Herman H. Rott
Script Consultant
Pilots on the Way Home
Director
XYZtopia
Script Consultant
Priit Pärn in Tallinn
Fly Mill
Producer
Breakfast on the Grass
Editor
Song of Songs
Producer
Crocodile
Script Consultant
Divers in the Rain
Director
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
Writer
Black Ceiling
Director
I Feel in the Back of My Head...
Director
A Night Without the Pope
Self
Marathon
Script Consultant
The Pearlman
Script Consultant
Pärnography
Self
Frank & Wendy
Writer
Visions of Europe
Writer
Rugrats Go Wild
Co-Director
Karl and Marilyn
Director
Night of the Carrots
Writer
1895
Writer
Hotel E
Art Direction
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer
Noblesse Oblige
Writer
Theatre Papa Carlo
Writer
Breakfast on the Grass
Director
Giraffe
Art Direction
Time Out
Art Direction
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
Pirate
The Pigeon Lady
Art Direction
The Triangle
Director
Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life
Writer
...And Plays Tricks
Writer
Sunday
Art Direction
Is the Earth Round?
Art Direction
It Moves? It Moves!
Writer
A Romper
Art Direction