Kalle Lasn (1942) is an Estonian-Canadian film director, 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 late 1960, he founded a market research company in Tokyo, and in 1970, he moved to Vancouver, Canada. For twenty years, he produced documentaries for PBS and National Film Board of Canada. He lives in Vancouver. He is co-founder of Adbusters magazine and the Adbusters Media Foundation