Director

Kalle Lasn

Directing

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1846577

IMDb ID: nm0489729

Known for: Directing

Born: March 24, 1942

Age: 83

Place of birth: Tallinn, Estonia

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1981 - 2003

Years active: 23

Average TMDB rating: 6.47

Wikidata: Q543559

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Director (1)Sound (2)

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Biography

Kalle Lasn is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor, and activist. Near the end of World War II, his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent some time in a German refugee camp. At age seven he was resettled in Australia with his family, where he grew up and remained until the late 1960s, attending school in Canberra. In the late 1960s, he founded a market research company in Tokyo, and in 1970, moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Over the course of twenty years, he produced documentaries for PBS and Canada’s National Film Board. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the co-founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the books Culture Jam and Design Anarchy and is the co-founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation, which owns the magazine.

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