Elsa Figueira
Director · Producer · Editor
A story by musician Pekagboom, made with São Toméan actors and collaborators as part of a campaign addressing domestic violence.
INDEPENDENT FILM PRACTICE
KrisHaamer
Director. Editor. Producer.
I am an Estonian filmmaker and editor. I worked in film selection and international liaison for África Mostra-se in Lisbon, and have made films with teams in São Tomé and Príncipe, Portugal and Taiwan.
01 / FILMOGRAPHY
Selected films & screen work
Short films, editing and documentary production across Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Taiwan.
Mina Kiá
Editor · HAAM post-production
2018 · Best National Short FilmSão Tomé FestFilm
Written and directed by Katya Aragão. A 2017 screening programme in Brazil credits Kris Haamer for editing and HAAM for post-production.
Segredos da Floresta
Audiovisual production lead
Led the audiovisual team documenting traditional knowledge on Príncipe. Together, the team produced 20 short documentaries and over 200 photographs.
Seven
Co-director · Editor
A collaborative Portuguese-language short made during cinema studies at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon.
Love Survives
Director · Camera · Editor
A short speculative romance made in Tainan during the early COVID period. Picture locked in March 2020.
Impromptu
Camera · Editor
A five-minute film of dance and violin improvisation, photographed and edited in Tainan in 2020.
壓力很大
Camera · Editor · Field sound
A dance project filmed at NCKU in April 2022, with forest, campus and comedy versions of one piece.
EXPERIENCE / 01
A working practice, across formats.
Festival programming, independent filmmaking and documentary field production.
África Mostra-se
Film selection & international liaison
Part of the African film festival team, working with filmmakers and festivals and helping select films for the programme.
Festival team listingFORBIO / Segredos da Floresta
Audiovisual production team lead
Led filming and documentation with field researchers and local communities. The project’s scientific coordinator confirmed the team produced 20 short documentary films and over 200 photographs.
ProjectIndependent production
Founder, Haamer Ventures OÜ
My independent practice connects film, digital media and interactive storytelling. The work ranges from filmmaking and post-production to the tools used to present and preserve it.
HAAMFILM CREDITS
BEYOND THE FILMOGRAPHY
A life with films.
Cinema is also something to watch closely, write about and return to. Selected film notes and an independent interview from the archive.
Letterboxd
A public record of films watched, reviewed and collected into lists, from African cinema to Japan and beyond.
ExploreKris Haamer’s Top 127 Movies to Watch in Your Lifetime
A personal selection of 127 films tracing influences across continents, genres and storytelling traditions.
ExploreAll About Lily Chou-Chou
An extended reading of Shunji Iwai’s film through music, adolescence, isolation and the Internet.
ExploreGlobal Estonians: Kris Haamer
An independent Estonian World profile about the São Tomé film work, art, entrepreneurship and transmedia.
ExploreIN THE ARCHIVE
Tomé / Wê
Documentary and transmedia archive · Ongoing
An ongoing archive of filming and collaborations with artists in São Tomé and Príncipe since 2009. It preserves footage, writing workshops and production materials from a proposed feature film that was not released.
Read the complete archive (English)
BACKGROUND / 02
Film education, then a practice of my own.
BA in Audiovisual Media, Baltic Film & Media School at Tallinn University. Cinema exchange studies at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon. MA in Interaction Design, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
I also run HAAM, a practice for digital products, interaction design and creative technology. haam.co
Film · Editing · Production · Interactive media
CONTACT / 03
Start with the work.
For filmmaking, editing, production or crossmedia collaborations, contact me directly.
kris@haam.co