Peeter Tammisto (born 1963) has studied film directing at New York University in the USA and has supplemented his knowledge in film at the Film Department of Tallinn Pedagogical University in Estonia. He participated in a feature film project development course organised by the European Development Network and Draft Zero in 2003. He is a founding partner of the film and video production company Rühm Pluss Null Studio and has worked there since 1996 as a film director and producer. He has also worked since 1997 as an assistant producer at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio, an animation film production studio. He has served as production manager on three feature length documentary films and two short fiction films. He produced a half-hour documentary film about the coming of age of a boy from an orphanage entitled A Different Titmouse in 2004. In 2005, he produced two half-hour documentary films that are presently in production: one is The Island with Two Faces about life on an isolated Estonian island through the life of the shopkeeper of the island’s grocery store, and the other is The Rich Cosmos Around the Corner about a unique open art studio in Southern Estonia and its relationship with the local community. He has directed two short fiction films and co-directed the documentary film Mission Impossible about Estonian diplomat Ernst Jaakson, who represented Estonia in the USA for most of the decades that Estonia was forcibly occupied by the Soviet Union.
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