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Birthday:

01-18-1982 (43 years)

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Biography

Livia Ulman (born on January 18, 1982) is a Finnish screenwriter. She graduated from Tallinn University's Faculty of Philology and participated in John Bernstein's workshop and Baltic Event script workshop POWR. Advanced in TorinoFilmLab's Adaptlab program. Wrote scripts for TV series ("Ohtlik lend" (ETV), "Kodu/Elu keset linna" (TV3), "Kättemaksukontor" (TV3), "Keeris" (TV3), "Myyrä" (YLE) and others) and and the films "Teesklejad" (Delusion), "Roosa kampsun" (Pink Cardigan), "Hytti nro 6" (Compartment No. 6) and others. Mainly writes with co-screenwriter Andris Feldmanis. The Finnish-Estonian-Russian-German cooperation film "Compartment No. 6" (dir. Juho Kuosmanen) based on their script premiered in Cannes 2021 and won the Grand Prix there.

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January

Writer

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It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.

Compartment No. 6

Screenplay

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A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

Delusion

Screenplay

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After a heavy decision, Anna and Juhan are unable to move on with their lives. They take time off at their friends' fancy summer house and once there, are forced to offer shelter to another couple caught in the storm. The couple assumes that the house belongs to Anna and Juhan and they do nothing to correct the mistake. Instead, they seize their new roles and start taking their mutual bitterness out on the strangers.

At Your Service

Writer

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A young mother and a police officer who finds herself in a predicament when deciding who to save - her family, her career, or herself.

Dark Paradise

Co-Writer

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After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.

Erik Stoneheart

Writer

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Erik is convinced he has a stone for a heart. That’s why he doesn’t mind that his parents have no time for him, or that he is bullied at school, or that he has no real friends. When his family moves to a villa they inherited, he is confronted by Maria whom Erik's parents want to kick out along with her father. Maria refuses to move and promises to make Erik's life a living hell. As a last attempt to defeat Erik, Maria goes to look for her mother who disappeared two years ago. Together they end up on a fantastical journey to the In-Between-World and Erik learns how hard it really is to wear a heart of stone.

Pink Cardigan

Screenplay

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Henrik is a successful actor and comedian who's always trying to prove he's not a homophobe. In his private life, he is lonely and insecure, struggling with adulthood. One day, after dislocating his shoulder, he joins a yoga class and makes his first gay friend ever.

Vertical Money

Translator

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The forest industry, the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) and natural scientists who have participated in the forest debate are brought in front of the camera for the first time, in order to gain clarity about what has happened to Estonian forests and what legacy we will leave for future generations. The nature film, shot in more than 60 different places in Estonia, opens the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of our common property.

Estonia

Writer (8 ep.)

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Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the car-ferry MS Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving personal stories of victims, survivors, loved ones and investigators, the eight-part series explores how it is possible that 852 people lost their lives and no one is held accountable.

Ohtlik Lend

Writer (10 ep.)

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