Margit Lillak born in 1974 in Estonia. In 1999 graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2002, she received her Master's degree in screenwriting at the Royal Holloway College (UK). In 2012, she made her first feature-length documentary "40+2 weeks", a first person film about her pregnancy and home birth. In 2019, her second documentary feature The Circle premiered at Ji.hlava IDFF and travelled to over thirty festivals around the globe. The Circle was nominated for the Best documentary award at Estonian Film and TV awards. 2020 Margit received the annual prize for outstanding social documentary film by Estonian Cultural Endowment. She has enrolled in several international workshops and masterclasses. She won the pitching prize at Vision du Reel 2022 for "Becoming Roosi".
Estonsko