Faye Jackson, Carley Armstrong

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Faye Jackson, Carley Armstrong

UK horror Little Bird was among the winners of the 2025 Industry@Tallinn & Baltic event, the professional platform of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).

The project won the most promising project award of €25,000 by a virtual production studio ATM Virtual. Faye Jackson is the director and Carley Armstrong produces via her company True Moon Pictures.

“Little Bird is an ideal candidate for an ATM Virtual award because it perfectly demonstrates the creative potential and technical necessity of Virtual Production,” said the jury.

In the Baltic event co-production market, best project was handed to Finnish debut The Well, directed by Petra Koivula and Siiri Halko, and produced by Jenni Jauri. The project receives the Eurimages co-production development award of €20,000.

“The Well offers a nuanced and emotionally perceptive portrait of a sisterly relationship destabilized by changing roles in a family,” said the jury.

In the works in progress strand, best international project was won by Federico Borgia’s Prince which is produced by Argentina’s Montelona. The prize consists of €7,000, with €6,000 for services by Studio Beep and €1,000 for travel allowances.

The Best Baltic project in works in progress, which wins the same prize, went to Kristijonas Vildziunas’s Dice-Ching-O-Mat which also picked up the special award of €5,000 via TRT – Turkish radio and Television Company.

The prizes were handed out during the same ceremony for the main Tallinn festival last night (November 20), which awarded the top prize to the Spanish drama The Good Daughter. 

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2025 awards

European Genre Forum

Most promising project - Little Bird (UK), dir. Faye Jackson, prod. Carley Armstrong

Works in Progress

Special award - Dice-Cing-o-Mat (Lith-Est-Lat), dir. Kristijonas Vildziunas, prod. Uljana Kim

Best international project - Prince (Arg-Uru), dir. Federico Borgia, prod. Francisco Magnou, Isabel Garcia, Pancho Magnou

Public favourite award - The Convulsions (Fr-Sp), dirs. Blanca Camell Galí, Anna Zisman, David Gutiérrez Camps; prods. Blanca Camell Galí, Anna Zisman, David Gutiérrez Camps

Best Baltic project - Dice-Cing-o-Mat (Lith-Est-Lat), dir. Kristijonas Vildziunas, prod. Uljana Kim

Baltic Event works in progress public favourite award - Lex Julia (Fin-Est-Swe-Pol), dir. Laura Hyppönen, prod. Laura Hyppönen

The Best Just Film project - Suiza (Arg-Per), dir. Maria Fernanda Gonzales, prod. Norma Velásquez

Just Films Work in progress public favourite award - 

Suiza (Arg-Per), dir. Maria Fernanda Gonzales, prod. Norma Velásquez

Baltic event co-production market 

Best project - The Well (Fin), dir. 

Suiza (Arg-Per), dir. Maria Fernanda Gonzales, prod. Norma Velásquez, prod. Jenni Jauri

Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award - Alice Wants To Live (Ukr), dir. Denys Sabolev, Vitaliy Dokalenko, prod. Denys Sabolev, Vitaliy Dokalenko

Producers Network prize - No Salvation Coming (Czech), dir. Vojtěch Strakatý, prod. Vojtěch Strakatý; Vesna (Ukr-Fr-Lith), dir. Rostislav Kirpicenko, prod. Stasys Baltakis, Vitalii Sheremetiev, Helena Pokorny, Oleksii Zgonik

Baltic event co-production market public favourite award - The Queen Of England Stole My Parents (Lith-Pol), dir. Ernestas Jankauskas. prod. Ernestas Jankauskas

Discovery Campus

Music Meets Film “Director-Composer Lab: Composing the Cut” Workshop Award - Nicolo Braghiroli

Best upcoming cinematography of Frame within a Frame 2025 - Gemma De Miguel Morell from Spain for the film Cura Sana; Tanel Topaasia from Estonia for In Between

Frame Within a Frame Lens Award - Jolinna Ang from Singapore for the film I’ll Leave You Words 

Script Pool - White Ship (Est), dir. Teresa Vali, pod. Inger Poder 

Script Pool public favourite award - Apoteos (Swe), dir. Christofer Nilsson, prod. Annegret Kunath

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