Black Nights Stars, the initiative of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event and Black Nights Discovery Campus, has announced the young actors taking part of its programme in November.

The international jury has selected seven young talents from the Baltic Sea Region and one from Ukraine as a sign of support to the actors’ community in Ukraine including Aamu Milonoff (Finland), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Latvia), Daria Polunina (Ukraine), Albert Arthur Amiryan (Denmark), Farba Dieng (Germany), Lena Barbara Luhse (Estonia), Petras Šimonis (Lithuania) and Maarja Johanna Mägi (Estonia).

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The jury who selected this year’s participant included Anja Dihrberg-Siebler (Casting director, member ICDN, Germany), Rie Hedegaard (Casting director, member ICDN, Denmark), Victor Jenkins (Casting director, member ICDN, UK) Alla Samoylenko (Casting director, member ICDN, Ukraine), Laura Munsterhjelm (Talent Agent, Finland and Sweden), Maie Rosmann (Producer, Estonia) and Mike Rosser (Journalist, Screen International, UK).

According to Claudia Landsberger, the Head of Black Nights Stars programme, it took many hours watching showreels, studying bio’s and long deliberations for the international jury to come to the selection of the Black Nights Stars 2022. “We are very honoured to present today the eight young talents who will meet in Tallinn in November at the Poff Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn for a specially designed three-day program to support these young talents with their next steps into the international arena of the film industry. They will have meetings with international casting directors and talent agents, and participate in various workshops and panels, all designed to enrich them with new skills, contacts and information that can give them access to new opportunities in their careers.”