director + creative
JALG
TVC
Client: JALG TV stand
Producer: Alis Raudsepp
DOP: Mattias Veermets
Stylist: Sonya Christina Tomson
Set Designer: Anna-Liisa Liiver
Production company: Get Shot Films
director
VERTICAL MONEY
DOCUMENTARY
(2024)
World premiere: Film Festival Cottbus
Estonia is widely regarded as a model example of post-communist transformation – organised, digitalised, Europeanised and blessed with wonderful nature. The latter finds itself under acute threat however; its forests are being cut down at a breathtaking pace – even in nature reserves.
Scriptwriters: Martti Helde, Pilleriin Raudam
Production company: Three Brothers
Producer: Elina Litvinova
DOP: Mattias Veermets
Original score: Sander Mölder
Sound designer: Janne Laine
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun
director
TALLINK SUMMER CRUISE
TVC
Client: Tallink / Silja Line
Agency: Optimist Creative
Producer: Alis Raudsepp
DOP: Martin Venela
Stylist: Sonya Christina Tomson
Set Designer: Armin Kohlman
Music: Sander Mölder
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun.
opening & closing gala dramaturgy for
BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
EVENT
Client: Black Nights Film Festival
Producer: Kalev Smit
Director: Emer Värk
director
YOU HAVE A GOOD TASTE
TVC
Client: Enterprise Estonia
Agency: AGE
Producer: Janika Möls
DOP: Mattias Veermets
Stylist:
Food stylist:
member of the jury
12th Beijing International Film Festival
Forward Future section
2022
director
TALLINK SUMMER CRUISE
TVC
Client: Tallink
Agency: Optimist Creative
Production company: Get Shot Films
Producer: Laura Reimann
DOP: Heiko Sikka
Set Designer: Armin Kohlman
Editor: Sander Somma
1-minute film
TIHUMEETER
Authors: Martti Helde, Mattias Veermets
Original score: Mick Pedaja
Crew: Tõnis Tuuga, Hendrik Krinal, Elina Litvinova
Special tnx:
Heli Sirotkin, Maie Nigols, Silve Tani, Maldar-Mikk Kuusk, Jaak Ollino Jun, Hendrik Mägar
Partners:
TLÜ Akadeemiline Raamatukogu, Black Box Studio
creative director
KAPITEL 25
AUDIOVISUAL PERFOMANCE
Client: KAPITEL
Agency: Jolos
Producer: Anneli Savitski
VJ: Emer Värk
Composer: Sander Mölder
Artist: NOEP
director
COOP
TVC
Agency: Optimist Creative
Production company: Get Shot Films
Producer: Aili Maarja
Production Assistant: Hannele Saagpakk
DOP: Mattias Veermets
Production Designer: Jaak Sova
creative director
WORLD EXPO DUBAI 2020
Estonian pavilion
Concept for mirror-screens
and visual storytelling in paviljon for visitors experience.
click image to visit virtual pavilion
director
ÜLEMISTE
TVC
Agency: Tank
Production company: Three Brothers
Producer: Elina Litvinova
Production Assistant: Gaida Talu
DOP: Ivar Taim
Production Designer: Armin Kohlman
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun
director / concept author
HUMAN BEING
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Sagger Foundation
Production company: Nafta Films
Producer: Olga Hartšuk
DOP: Mattias Veermets
Original score: Mick Pedaja
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun
director
REAL - MICK PEDAJA
MUSIC VIDEO
Production company: Three Brothers
Producer: Elina Litvinova
Actors: Ingmar Jõela, Steffi Pähn
DOP: Ivar Taim
Production designer: Anna-Liisa Liiver
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun
director
KRISTIINE
TVC
Agency: Optimist Creative
Production company: Get Shot Films
Producer: Kadi Freja Felt
DOP: Mart Ratassepp
Production Designer: Armin Kohlman Stylist: Liisi Eesmaa
Coreographer: Ingmar Jõela
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun
Director-screenwriter
SCANDINAVIAN SILENCE
FEATURE FILM
World premiere: Shanghai International Film Festival
Psychological thriller follows the reunion of a newly released inmate with his sister. The sibilings set out on a journey together across a bleak winter Nordic landscape, struggling to communicate and re-connect by overcoming their dark secrets.
Co-writer: Nathaniel Price
Production company: Three Brothers
Producer: Elina Litvinova
DOP: Erik Põllumaa, Sten-Johan Lill
Original score: Mick Pedaja
Production Designer: Anneli Arusaar
Costume designer: Anna-Liisa Liiver
Sound designer: Matis Rei
Editor: Jaak Ollino Jun
"Chilly beauty and lofty intention"
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Engages its audience through an exceptional cinematic journey"
JURY EUROPEAN CINEMA AWARD
"the dialogue between the characters and the space/landscape is the no.1 achievement of this picture"
MUBI POST
director
KÜMME ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND
DOCUMENTARY
Production company: Allfilm
Producer: Pille Rünk
DOP: Heiko Sikka, Mihkel Soe, Rein Kotov, Kert Vahtre, Ülle Vahtre
Editor: Helis Hirve
director
AZLATIC
DANCE VIDEO
Production company: Three Brothers
Producer: Elina Litvinova
DOP: Ivar Taim
Dancers: Renate, Taavi
director-screenwriter
IN THE CROSSWIND
FEATURE FILM
World premiere: Toronto International Film Festival
Psychological thriller follows the reunion of a newly released inmate with his sister. The sibilings set out on a journey together across a bleak winter Nordic landscape, struggling to communicate and re-connect by overcoming their dark secrets.
Cast: Laura Peterson, Tarmo Song, Mirt Preegel, Ingrid Isotamm, Einar Hillep
Director of photography: Erik Põllumaa
Editor: Liis Nimik
Sound design: Janne Laine
Music: Pärt Uusberg
Producers: Pille Rünk & Piret Tibbo-Hudgins
Production company: Allfilm
Supported by: Estonian Film Institute, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Ministry of Defence
Festivals / Awards
Toronto IFF 2014, Canada
Beijing IFF 2015, China - Best Director Award
Warsaw IFF 2014, Poland - Ecumenical Jury Award
Thessaloniki IFF 2014, Greece - Artistic Achievement Award
Mannheim Heidelberg IFF 2014, Germany - Auszeichnungen der Empfehlungsjury der Kinobetreiber
Black Nights FF Tallinn 2014, Estonia - Prize for the Best Cinematographer, the Estonian Film Award, the FICC [International Film Clubs] Don Quixote Award for Best Film
Göteborg IFF 2015, Sweden - Public Choice Award
Melbourne IFF 2015, Australia - People's Choice - 3. Best Film
Festival International de Cinema de Tarragona 2015, Spain - Audience Award, Special Mention
Festival "Der neue Heimatfilm" Freistadt 2015, Austria - Special Mention
Tripoli Film Festival, Lebanon - Special Mention
Camerimage IFF 2014, Poland
Palm Springs IFF 2015, USA
Alpe Adria Cinema Trieste 2015, Italy
Premieres Plans FF Angers, France
Scandinavian FF Los Angeles, USA
If! Istanbul Int'l Independent FF 2015, Turkey
Chicago European Union FF 2015, USA
Estnische Filmtage München 2015, Germany
Febiofest - Prague IFF 2015, Czech Republic
Vilnius Int'l FF 2015, Lithuania
Trenton FF 2015, USA
Fajr Int'l Film Festival 2015, Iran
CINEPOLITICA IFF 2015, Romania
Jeonju IFF 2015, South Korea
Panorama Europe Film Festival NYC 2015, USA
Shanghai IFF 2015, China
Maine FF 2015, USA
Odessa IFF 2015, Ukraine
Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2015, Germany
European FF Palic 2015, Serbia
Sarajevo IFF 2015, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Indie Film Festival 2015, Brazil
Helsinki IFF - Love & Anarchy 2015, Finnland
Waterloo Historical FF 2015, Belgium
2morrow IFF, Russia
FICAR Rabat, Morocco
NOVOS CINEMAS Pontevedra International Film Festival
Blue See Film Festival, Finland
Listapad - Minsk IFF, Belorussia
The European Union Film Festival (EUFF), Canada
Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia
director
BANK LIKE ESTONIA
TVC
Agency: Division
Production company: Björn Films
Producer: Peeter Järvelaid
DOP: Erik Põllumaa
director
XXX
TVC
(my first and so far the last banned commercial i have made)
Client: XXX
Agency: XXX
Producer: Teele Kase
DOP: Erik Põllumaa
Production designer: Kristina Lõuk
director
PAULIG - BJÖRN KOOP
TVC
Agency: Tabasco
Producer: Elisa Johanna Känd
DOP: Heiko Sikka
director
SAKU ON ICE
TVC
Agency: Division
Production company: Division
Producer: Teele Kase
DOP: Erik Põllumaa
Editor: Liis Nimik
showreel 2018
DIRECTING KIDS
commercial works 2012-2018
director
SWEETEST MOMENT OF THE YEAR
TVC
Client: KALEV chocolate factory
Agency: Division
Producer: Teele Kase
DOP: Erik Põllumaa
Production designer: Anna-Liisa Liiver
BIO
photo: Renee Altrov
Martti Helde was born in Estonia in 1987. He studied film directing at the Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School followed by a Master degree in stage directing. Additional to the university studies Helde has also refined himself in screenwriting, dramaturgy and directing actors via completing various workshops in Berlin, Ankara, Los Angeles and London.
His first feature length period drama ‘’In the Crosswind’’ (2014) was awarded the Best Film by the Estonian Film Journalist Union (member of FIPRESCI). The film was selected for the international Toronto Film Festival, making ‘’In the Crosswind’’ the first Estonian film included in the festival’s main program. Scandinavian Silence is his second feature.