Moonika Siimets is a talented Estonian female director and scriptwriter. She graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School and attended Judith Weston’s scriptwriting and directing master classes in Los Angeles. She has directed multi-award-winning documentaries, TV series, and short films, including Is it You? (2013), which screened at Stockholm Film Festival, The Last Romeo (2013), and Pink Cardigan (2014). Her documentary credits include Report: Green Estonia (2007), Another Dimension (2012), Trendy Dog (2010), and World Champion (2009).
In 2018 she was one of six women to direct a short film for the documentary collection Roots. Her first feature film The Little Comrade (2018) premiered in Busan IFF and was honoured with the Busan Bank Audience Award.
Estonian Film Institute