Margit Lillak
Estonia

Margit Lillak graduated from the Estonian Academy of Art as a set designer in 1999 and went to work as director of animated films at the Multifilm studio. In 2002, Margit graduated from the Royal Holloway College in England with a MA degree in screenwriting. In 2022 Margit founded her own production company Tiny Desk Productions, and is working on "Becoming Roosi" as her first feature length film as a producer in collaboration with German Dirk Manthey films and SWR/ARTE. Margit participated with the project in Esodoc and Exoriente training programs and won the pitching prize in Vision Du Reel 2022. Besides these trainings she also pitched at East Doc Forum and Baltic Sea docs at 2024.,Dok Preview international at DokLeipzig 2024.
She has directed and produced several short documentaries. In 2012 she directed her first feature-length documentary “40+2 weeks” as a first-person film about her own pregnancy and home-birth.
“The Circle” is her second feature-length film that follows a newly formed eco-community. The film premiered at Ji.hlava IDFF 2019. It was also the opening film at Docpoint Tallinn in 2020, Then went to many international film festivals and screenings. The film gained a lot of attention in Estonian media and was popular with domestic audiences. Margit received an annual prize for best documentary from the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Project: Becoming Roosi