Priit Pärn

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-08-26 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

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 ch...

Production

1992

Hotel E

as Background Designer

1992

Hotel E

as Art Direction

1992

Hotel E

as Art Designer

1985

Time Out

as Art Direction

1985

Time Out

as Director

2003

Karl and Marilyn

as Director

1987

1992

Hotel E

as Director

1982

The Triangle

as Director

1982

The Triangle

as Writer

1988

1977

Sunday

as Art Direction

2018

Music Box

as Supervising Editor

1975

A Romper

as Art Direction

2003

Rugrats Go Wild

as Co-Director

2005

Frank & Wendy

as Writer

2004

2017

四季

as Animation Director

1978

...And Plays Tricks

as Art Direction

1978

1995

1895

as Writer

2009

1995

1895

as Director

1978

2009

1998

1992

Hotel E

as Writer

1989

1983

The Pigeon Lady

as Art Direction

1986

Giraffe

as Art Direction

2003

Karl and Marilyn

as Art Direction

2003

2014

2010

Song of Songs

as Producer

2005

Frank & Wendy

as Art Direction

2009

Crocodile

as Script Consultant

1985

Time Out

as Writer

1995

1895

as Dialogue

1995

1895

as Character Designer

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1982

The Triangle

as Art Direction

2009

Divers in the Rain

as Art Direction

2009

Divers in the Rain

as Background Designer

2014

Pilots on the Way Home

as Art Direction

2014

Pilots on the Way Home

as Character Designer

1977

Is the Earth Round?

as Art Direction

2024

Luna Rossa

as Director

1974

The Simpletons

as Art Direction

1995

1895

as Art Direction

2006

Marathon

as Script Consultant

2006

The Pearlman

as Script Consultant

2008

2013

XYZtopia

as Script Consultant

2016

Fatcula

as Script Consultant

2014

2015

Life with Herman H. Rott

as Script Consultant

2019

Cante

as Editor

2005

Frank & Wendy

as Background Designer

2024

Luna Rossa

as Writer

2024

Luna Rossa

as Art Direction

1977

2020

2018

Manivald

as Dramaturgy

1983

2003

1986

Giraffe

as Writer

2020

Layers

as Producer

1977

1987

Breakfast on the Grass

as Art Direction

2011

Fly Mill

as Producer

2011

Fly Mill

as Editor

1977

2017

Don't Wake Up

as Supervising Animation Director

2007

Black Ceiling

as Director

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