Ilja Rautsi is a screenwriter and director with a passion for the horror film genre. Two of his short films, “Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre” (2018) and “Night of the Living Dicks” (2021), have won numerous awards at prestigious genre film festivals such as Fantastic Fest, Palm Springs, Neuchâtel and BIFAN. Rautsi has also written the screenplays for several internationally acclaimed horror films, including Hanna Bergholm’s “The Breeding of Evil” (2022) and “Night Child” (2026), which he also presented at the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. “Red Christmas”, filmed in Estonia, is Rautsi’s first feature-length film.