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Screenwriter and Development Producer<\/span> Leana Jalukse\u00a0(b. 1979)<\/strong> is an Estonian screenwriter and script consultant. Her debut film, MOTHER (2016), premiered internationally in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in the USA, won Best Feature at Kitzb\u00fchel in Austria, and Best Estonian Feature at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. It was also selected as Estonia\u2019s national entry for the Oscars and nominated for Best Screenplay at the Estonian Film and TV Awards.<\/p>\n FIRE LILY (2018) premiered at Mannheim-Heidelberg, while DESERTED (2021, as co-writer) premiered at Busan and won Best Feature at the Estonian Film and TV Awards. KIDS OF THE NIGHT (2021, as script doctor) won Best Screenplay at the Estonian Film and TV Awards.<\/p>\n The feature documentary\u00a0KELLY \u2013 SOMEONE ELSE\u2019S DREAM, where she served as writer and director, held its world premiere at\u00a0Hot Docs\u00a0in April 2024,\u00a0reaching the top 10 in audience rankings, and opened theatrically in\u00a0Estonian cinemas\u00a0to\u00a0box office success\u00a0in October 2024.<\/p>\n In recent years, Leana has focused primarily on drama series. Her first, the Estonian-Latvian-Italian co-production VON FOCK premiered in prime time on Estonian National Television in March 2025 and is represented internationally by ZDF Studios, Germany. Her current development slate includes BREAKING THE ICE, shortlisted at the C21 Drama Series Script Competition 2023 and supported by Creative Europe MEDIA Programme and the Estonian Film Institute; BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, which won Most Promising Project at the TV Beats Co-Financing Market 2023; and THE CODE OF THULE, which received development financing from the Estonian Film Institute, was named Best Estonian Project at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2024, and presented at Co-Production Pitch at SERIENCAMP 2025.<\/p>\n In\u00a02025, Leana was selected for the\u00a0international Pop Up Series Incubator programme, where she is developing the Romanian project ANGELMAKER\u00a0in collaboration with series creator Cristina Gro\u0219an and\u00a0French screenwriter Lo\u00efc Barr\u00e8re.<\/p>\n Leana teaches\u00a0screenwriting, runs\u00a0development workshops, and serves as an expert for international film funds, markets, and workshops. She is a founding and board member of the Estonian Screenwriters\u2019 Guild, and a member of the\u00a0Estonian Filmmakers\u2019 Union and the Writers\u2019 Guild of Great Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Leana Jalukse Screenwriter and Development ProducerEFIS |\u00a0IMDb.com E-mail\u00a0leana@leanajalukse.com Leana Jalukse\u00a0(b. 1979) is an Estonian screenwriter and script consultant. Her debut film, MOTHER (2016), premiered internationally in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in the USA, won Best Feature at Kitzb\u00fchel in Austria, and Best Estonian Feature at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stsenaristid.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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