Mait Mäekivi (b. 1959)

Born:
January 8, 1959

Mait Mäekivi (born on 8 January 1959 in Kohtla-Järve) is an Estonian cinematographer.  1982-1988 he studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. 1986-1991 he worked at Tallinnfilm. From 1991 he is a freelance cinematographer.  In 2007 he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class.

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"B" Camera Operator:
2017  November

Assistant Camera:
1981  The Ideal Landscape
1981  The Smacking Sea
2017  November

Camera Operator:
1981  The Ideal Landscape
1981  The Smacking Sea
1998  Standing by the Forest
2010  Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2017  November
2021  The Best of Salieri
????  The legend of Pitka

Director of Photography:
1981  The Ideal Landscape
1981  The Smacking Sea
1987  Two
1989  I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990  Awakening
1992  The Sunny Kids
1998  Standing by the Forest
1999  Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2003  Made in Estonia
2005  Old Men's Paradise
2005  Shop of Dreams
2006  Golden Beach
2006  Mindless
2007  Whatever, Aleksander!
2007  Where Souls Go
2008  I Was Here
2008  The Wish Tree
2010  Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010  Red Mercury
2011  Farts of Fury
2014  Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017  November
2019  Self Made Cameraman
2021  Firebird
2021  The Best of Salieri
2022  Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024  Artists of Survival
????  One-dimensional Man
????  The legend of Pitka

Screenplay:
1981  The Ideal Landscape
1981  The Smacking Sea
1987  Two
1989  I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990  Awakening
1992  The Sunny Kids
1998  Standing by the Forest
1999  Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2003  Made in Estonia
2005  Old Men's Paradise
2005  Shop of Dreams
2006  Golden Beach
2006  Mindless
2007  Whatever, Aleksander!
2007  Where Souls Go
2008  I Was Here
2008  The Wish Tree
2010  Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010  Red Mercury
2011  Farts of Fury
2014  Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017  November
2019  Self Made Cameraman
2021  Firebird
2021  The Best of Salieri
2022  Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024  Artists of Survival
????  One-dimensional Man
????  The legend of Pitka

Second Unit Director of Photography:
1981  The Ideal Landscape
1981  The Smacking Sea
1987  Two
1989  I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990  Awakening
1992  The Sunny Kids
1998  Standing by the Forest
1999  Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2003  Made in Estonia
2005  Old Men's Paradise
2005  Shop of Dreams
2006  Golden Beach
2006  Mindless
2007  Whatever, Aleksander!
2007  Where Souls Go
2008  I Was Here
2008  The Wish Tree
2010  Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010  Red Mercury
2011  Farts of Fury
2014  Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017  November
2019  Self Made Cameraman
2021  Firebird
2021  The Best of Salieri
2022  Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024  Artists of Survival
????  One-dimensional Man
????  The legend of Pitka

Still Photographer:
1981  The Ideal Landscape
1981  The Smacking Sea
1987  Two
1989  I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990  Awakening
1992  The Sunny Kids
1998  Standing by the Forest
1999  Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2000  Foreign Fields
2003  Made in Estonia
2005  Old Men's Paradise
2005  Shop of Dreams
2006  Golden Beach
2006  Mindless
2007  Whatever, Aleksander!
2007  Where Souls Go
2008  I Was Here
2008  Taarka
2008  The Wish Tree
2010  Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010  Red Mercury
2011  Farts of Fury
2014  Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017  November
2019  Self Made Cameraman
2021  Firebird
2021  The Best of Salieri
2022  Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024  Artists of Survival
????  One-dimensional Man
????  The legend of Pitka

Camera Operator:
2010  ENSV
2019  EnsV

Director of Photography:
2008  Windward Land
2010  ENSV
2019  EnsV

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