Peeter Simm

Directing•Born February 24, 1953•Died March 12, 2026 (age 73)•Kiviõli, Kiviõli District, Tallinn Oblast, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]

Biography

Peeter Simm (born February 24, 1953; Kiviõli – March 12, 2026) was an Estonian film director. Peeter Simm studied at Nõo Secondary School in a physics class and graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (cum laude) in 1976 with a degree in feature film directing. From 1975 to 1993, Simm worked at Tallinnfilm, first as an assistant director, then as a feature film director. In 1993, he founded the studio Lege Artis Film. As a director, he collaborated with many studios. He also directed in the theater, made language training and advertising films, television programs, etc. He worked as a visiting professor of film directing at the Baltic Institute of Film, Media, Arts and Communication.