Eeva Mägi (b. 1987) is an Estonian writer-director based in Tallinn. She graduated from Directing Documentaries at the Baltic Film and Media School in 2015. Since then, she has directed successful shorts such as LEMBRI UUDU (2017) that had its premiere at DOK Leipzig; her hybrid short doc THE WEIGHT OF ALL THE BEAUTY (2019) was longlisted to the Oscars after winning „Best Short Doc” at Melbourne IFF; or her latest short 3RD OCTAVE F (2022) that kicked off at Winterthur, then won “Best Estonian short” at PÖFF Shorts so far.
Eeva received the Young Filmmaker’s Award by the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2018, then the DocPoint Tallinn Young Filmmaker Award in 2019. WHO AM I SMILING FOR? (2023) is her first long-form documentary.
Eeva received the Young Filmmaker’s Award by the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2018, then the DocPoint Tallinn Young Filmmaker Award in 2019. WHO AM I SMILING FOR? (2023) is her first long-form documentary.