Leeni Linna is an independent Estonian film director. She graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School in 2009, and made several short-fiction movies before and during her studies (Personal Space 2005, Hope Dies Last 2006, Oli 2004, Class Reunion 2007, etc.). Her latest short fiction film is Taxi Driver (2013).Back in 2008 as a human rights activist in The Amnesty International Estonian group Leeni was involved in research in Dharamsala, India, and through interviews with Tibetan refugee children there she made her previous documentary The Messenger, her début as a documentary film director. At the moment, Leeni studies documentary filmmaking in the master's programme of the Baltic Film and Media School, directing the documentary film Blood Type as her master's thesis.Leeni has also worked as a director, editor, producer and scriptwriter for various TV shows and film projects.At the moment Leeni is preparing her first feature film Soldier Mother, a film about mother who lost her son in Afghanistan, but refuses to believe it and decides to go to Afghanistan in search of him.
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