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PARTNER - PRODUCER
Helen Lõhmus
Helen Lõhmus is Estonian multi-platform producer, creative director and production designer serving both domestic and international productions and clients.
Starting her career in television in 2004 and finding her voice through medium of television, film, commercials and other forms of digital media has been her passion.
She served as a production manager and production & costume designer for Walt Disney Russia for a high school drama POSLE SHKOLY (After School) dir. Oleg and Vladimir Presnyakov. Lõhmus served as a producer and production & costume designer for Lao-France-Estonia co-production of Dearest Sister, dir. Mattie Do. The film was Academy Award candidate for Laos in 2017.
Her work is committed to a belief, that to be relevant in today’s fragmented and complex media landscapes, storytellers need new inspiring ways to connect with the audiences. This has given her works always an edge in this ever-shifting media meeting space, relying on the telling and creating stories that go beyond.
Contact - helen@oreefilms.com
PARNER - PRODUCER - CREATIVE STRATEGIST
Sten-Kristian Saluveer
Sten-Kristian Saluveer is Estonia / Japan based curator, audiovisual producer, and content & technology entrepreneur bridging together Asia with Europe. Besides Oree, he is the Founder of Storytek /storytek.eu/ - a vertical focused mediatech accelerator and innovation lab bringing together deep audiovisual and mediatech sector creativity, knowledge, technology and funding with a selection of hand-picked global tech entrepreneurs, storytellers & content creators, and investors. He is also curating the Innovation track - NEXT - at the Marche Du Film of the Festival de Cannes.
Sten frequently consults local and international organizations on creativity, technology and Asia including the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Startup Estonia, as well as the European Commission. He recently co-authored the report for the industrial media & technology strategy for Europe by Special Advisor Klossa to the Vice President, Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, and is co authoring the future strategy for Estonian startup community. He also mentors and teaches up and coming talents at the Baltic Film and Media School, the Taipei Film Academy, Ties That Bind program (EAVE), the Israel Co-Pro Market, The NEXT Wave program of the DFFB Academy Berlin, and the NIFF on Tour Program at CERN.
Sten has been the driving force behind the pioneering film collaboration agreement between the Korean Film Council and Estonian Film Institute, and started Asian-Estonian co-productions with Northern Europe including Angry Painter (2014, Korea-Estonia, dir. Jeon Kyuhwan), Man and Woman (2015, Korea, dir. Lee Joon ki,) Dearest Sister (2016, Laos-France-Estonia dir. Mattie Do) - Academy Award candidate for Laos in 2017, and Magic Kimono (2017, Japan-Latvia, dir. Maris Martinsons). He is currently in development for a first Taiwanese-Estonian film co-production.
Contact - sten@oreefilms.com
Production Manager
Velle Hammer
Our man for getting things done!
Contact - velle@oreefilms.com
