Our students at BFM are inherently entrepreneurial, actively engaging in the creative and film sectors even while pursuing their studies. Many have launched successful businesses, and we take great pride in our BFM alumni entrepreneurs. Here are some of our distinguished alumni:
Dagmar Mäe
Dagmar Mäe, is an entrepreneur, a BFM alumni and a mother, who loves discovering and understanding new ideas, constantly seeking to achieve better understanding of the world around her. She co-founded Votemo, a platform that gives broadcasters, event organisers, streamers and TV channels new ways to engage audiences through live commenting, Q&A, polling, and animated reactions.
🎧 Listen to Dagmar in our ScreenME Podcast.
Rein Zobel
Rein Zobel is a creative virtual reality expert and has been involved with the VR field since 2013. He is also a film director and worked in commercial video production for 6 years. In 2016 he co-founded VR content creation company Maru VR Productions, which is the most productive VR company in Estonia, having completed more than 20 VR projects.
Kirill Volkov
Kirill Volkov is a film producer born in 2001 in Jõhvi, Estonia. Since childhood, Kirill has always been into filmmaking and photography. The Camera and iMovie were his go-to apps on the iPad as a kid, YouTube videos and Vines were his first audiovisual masterpieces. His filmmaking career officially began in 2017, at only 15 years old, he was offered the opportunity to start a production company to shoot event aftermovies for his school. Since then, Kirill has been running his first company, Wolfy Meedia, shooting events, music videos, and commercials as a videographer for clients all over Estonia.
In 2020, Kirill started his BA Advertising & PR studies at the Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School. A year later, Wolfy Media was rebranded to Wedia, as projects grew bigger, new clients were found, and the videography company evolved into a production house. Kirill has tried himself in different filmmaking positions throughout the years – director, DOP, and editor. However, in 2021, he understood that producing is his cup of tea, and he remains confident about it to the present day.
Kirill’s portfolio is full of commercials, music videos, and event aftermovies. In 2024, in collaboration with Tallifornia, he premiered his first feature, “Two of Me” directed by EskoBros. In the beginning of 2025 was premiered his second feature project “Rolling Papers” directed by Meel Paliale, where Kirill performed as line producer.
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