If ever there was a fresh young example of Estonian grit and determination, surely it would be 23 year-old Hedy Läets, who moved to Canada with a one-way ticket and hasn’t looked back.
Born and raised in the village of Salme, a half-hour from Kuressaare on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, Hedy attended high school in Tallinn. Her interest in the world of media production began early on, when she worked as a production assistant for a reality television show in Tallinn.
She began her travels when she moved to the state of Indiana in the U.S. as an exchange student. After her time in the U.S., she knew she wanted to study film and television, and as she was searching online for her next educational challenge in media, she spotted an ad for Centennial College in Toronto. She applied, was accepted, but then the Covid pandemic hit.
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