KASPAR JANCIS

Born on May 8, 1975 in Tallinn.

He has been interested since childhood in drawing comic strips and writing stories for which he made illustrations himself.  His first moving pictures came into being in the corners of his school notebooks.  Later in his school years, his brother's friend, who was a member of a film club, helped him make a short plasticine puppet animated film.

This was followed by a two-year period as a working youth, which was not particularly educational, but was brimming with adventures.  During that time he began working systematically with music.  He has been part of the creative core of several rock groups, written song lyrics, made arrangements and created tunes.  He enrolled at the Tallinn Pedagogical University in 1996.

He completed his first films at that school - the silent film "Dr. Maisarve and the Matshalka Case" (1996) and the cutout puppet film "Flight of the Little White Helicopter" (1996), which was screened at rock concerts and also on television.  He transferred from the Pedagogical University to the Turku Arts and Media School in Finland in 1997 to study animation under the guidance of Priit Pärn.

He made his debut film "Romance" (1999) in Turku, and it has participated in several international film festivals.

Animated films:

1999 ROMANCE (5 min. mixed technique - cut-out puppet animation, cartoon animation and pixillation; Beta SP)

  • Jury special prize at the “Visions of Light” international youth film festival in Rakvere, 1999
  • Grand Prix in the undergraduate competition programme at the seventh Animerte Dager festival of animated films from the Nordic and Baltic countries in Fredrikstad, Norway 2000

2002 WEITZENBERG STREET

  • Best animation film at Sleepwalkers Student Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia 2002

  • 2nd prize in the animated film category at Filmfest Dresden - International Festival for Animation and Short Film, Dresden, Germany 2003  
  • Prize for the Best Animation at the 5th Dervio's Animation Film Festival, Italy 2003  

2003-2005 FRANK AND WENDY (Scr. P.Pärn, Dir. P.Tender, Ü.Pikkov, K.Jancis / 75 min. / 7 x 9,5 min)

  • Estonian Cultural Endowment annual award for the best animated film of the year, 2005
  • Eesti Ekspress cultural supplement Areen annual award, 2005
  • Prize for the Best Television Film and Serial from AniFest International Festival of Animation Films, Czech Republic 2005

2006 MARATHON (15 min)

  • Grand Prix from Balkanima International Animated Film Festival, Serbia 2007  
  • Best European film from I Castelli Animati, Rome, Italy 2007

2007 THE VERY LAST CIGARETTE (1’46“/ 35mm / animated poem from
a film BLACK CEILING)  

In development 
CROCODILE (13 min / 35mm)




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