Screenwriter, producer, and director Ove Musting was born on 22 February 1977 in Sõmerpalu. He graduated in 2002 from Tallinn University with a degree in Audiovisual Arts and has furthered his education through various professional training courses. He is the director and format creator of numerous television shows and has worked as a multi-camera director for major broadcasts such as "Eesti Laul," the Song Celebration, and Republic Day performances, among others. He is a founding member of the bands Winny Puhh and Aednikud, as well as a co-founder of the circular economy platform Smartswap.com. Musting received several festival awards for his first student work, "Suicide" (1997). In 2022, he made his feature film debut with "Kalev," for which he received the Cultural Endowment’s Annual Award for Audiovisual Arts Debut, followed in 2023 by six EFTA awards.