Black Nights Film Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has announced building a park in their name.

The first tree, a Sakhalin rowan, was planted in the park-to-be which is located at Paljassaare right next to the future film studio complex Tallinn Film Wonderland.

The tree was planted by the Black Night’s Festival director Tiina Lokk, the deputy mayor of Tallinn Vadim Belobrovtsev and the CEO of Tallinn Film Wonderland Gren Noormets.

A 1.5 hectares park will be established in the coming years together with Tallinn City and the film campus. It is dedicated to people who have made a notable contribution to the development of film arts and PÖFF. Self-named trees will be planted for instance by nominees for the festival’s life work award, award winners and guests of honour.

Festival’s director Tiina Lokk says that a long time dream is about to come true. “Large historic festivals have always had a great connection with their hosting cities, which is usually also expressed in a spatial form - be it a film palace in the urban space or memorial handprint stepping stones on the streets. We wished to make a contribution to the development of Tallinn’s green areas and at the same time acknowledge people involved in the festival.” She adds that the location in the neighbourhood of the future film studio complex creates a perfect dialogue with the surroundings.

The coordinator of PÖFF’s park development Hannes Aava emphasised that the green space will be a low maintenance semi-natural habitat which will minimize the ecological footprint.

To create the park, PÖFF will set up an environmental support fund Rohehunt (Green Wolf) which enables people both from Estonia and all over the world to contribute to the cause.

The prospective park is located on Paljassaare road 1b and 1c.

Black Night’s Film Festival is taking place this year from 12th to the 28th of November.

The photos of the celebration of the park's location can be found here.