Elen Lotman is a cinematographer who has shot numerous feature, documentary and short films. Her camera has taken her all over the world, including Japan, Tibet, China, India, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Norway, Albania, Finnish Lapland, Russian Arctic Kola Peninsula and many other places and spaces. Her films have won awards and have been shown in competition programs of A-list festivals like IFFI Goa, Tallinn Black Nights and Moscow International Film Festival. Her cinematography has also been selected to the best of specialised festivals, like Camerimage and Manaki Brothers, IDFA, Tampere Film Festival etc. The virtual exhibitions for Tallinn Art Hall that she created in 2020 were selected among 10 world's best virtual museums by New York times and Wallpaper magazine.
Sirje Runge (1950) is a painter, recognised for her geometric abstract and minimalist paintings. Runge belongs among the artists who in the beginning of the 1970s created the new and more radical wave of Estonian avant-garde art (in Soviet Union being an avant-garde artist was a form of rebellion). Sirje’s works belong to the collections of national Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Zimmerli Art Museum and private collections of the Swedish royal family, Dr. Herbert Schnapka, Naoko Kohno, Edita Giedrimene, Boris Bernstein, Hélen Berdoy-Mayer among others and who has been awarded with the Best Painting of the Year Prize, the Konrad Mägi medallion, the Kristjan Raud Art Award, Estonian Ministry of Culture’s stipend and Cultural Endowment of Estonia stipend.