Jury

Valter Uusberg

Valter Uusberg

Chairman of the jury

Animated film director Valter Uusberg was born on 11.
11 July 1953.
Graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical Institute as an art teacher.
In the 1970s he worked as an art teacher in Juuru secondary school.
Thanks to his classmate Heiki Ernitsa, he managed to get a job as an artist-director with Rein Raamat in the making of the film “The Great Troll”, which was completed in 1980.
In 1980, he worked as a film director for the film “The Rat”.
Worked at the Tallinnfilm cartoon studio 1981-93.
1993.
In 1993, he took up a post as a cultural councillor in the Rapla municipality, where he stayed for 15 years.
After working as a civil servant, he continued to work as an artist in the film industry and, alongside this work, increasingly began teaching Rapla children about art, photography, film and theatre.
As chairman of the board of the Rapla Theatre Society, he has for many years led Rapla’s theatre life.

Sam

Seed

Jury for student films and short films

Säm is an Estonian rapper, singer, content creator and entrepreneur.
Her rap and pop music career started in 2017 on Soundcloud, where she wrote her first tracks called “death vol. 17” and “Black and White”.
Today, his best-known songs are “Understand-understand”, “Red cardboard” and “In the middle of spring”.
These tracks have garnered millions of listens on music platforms.

Sam started his career as a content creator three years ago, when he mainly worked with different companies on Instagram.
2022.
In March of 2022, he started posting TikToke more regularly on his channel @ainukesam.
2024.
By 2024, in two years, he has built up a following of almost 20 000 followers and his videos have a total of 1.1 million likes.
In total, his TikToke has been viewed over 10 million times.