Jaan Tootsen is an Estonian filmmaker and a radio podcast director of Night University. He has studied in the Estonian Humanitarian Institute and graduated from Tallinn University. He has won numerous prizes for his film New World, among which was the first prize for audio-visual works from the Estonian Cultural Endowment Fund and he has also received the Young Cultural Figure Award of the Cultural Foundation of the President of Estonia. He has produced more than 600 radio shows and has directed 7 documentaries, and 2 more documentaries are in production. He is also the author-director of the series of minidocs One Story for the Estonian Public Broadcasting. Fred Jüssi.The Beauty of Being is his third feature film.
Estonian Film Institute
