Maria Ulfsak

Maria Ulfsak works as a film critic at Estonia’s second biggest national weekly newspaper Eesti Ekspress. She studied journalism at the University of Tartu and has a master’s degree in film studies from the University of Warwick. Maria has also worked as a programmer for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and the Baltic Event Co-Production Market. Her works have been published in almost all of the most influential newspapers and magazines in Estonia.

An Estonian-Canadian-Croatian collaboration is up for a European animation award

Maria Ulfsak / November 27, 2017

“Manivald”, a 13-minute animation directed by Chintis Lundgren and co-produced by Canada, Croatia and Estonia, is a nominee at the European Animation Awards competition. This article is published in collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute. Directed by Estonian-born Chintis Lundgren, the animation is a tragicomic story of the 33-year old Manivald who gets into a confusing […]

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Ülo Pikkov combines animation and documentary

Maria Ulfsak / December 5, 2016

Estonian filmmaker Ülo Pikkov’s newest puppet animation film, “Empty Space”, presents a story forged in the dreams of a father hiding from the Soviet terror. The animation is a reconstruction of a vision on the backdrop of the anxieties of the 1950s in the Soviet Union. This article is published in collaboration with the Estonian

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