ANNUKKA LILJA- FILM EDITOR

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Annukka Lilja, Movie Editor
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Annukka Lilja, Film Editor
 

DOCUMENTARIES:

FILMS I HAVE EDITED:

FICTION:

2012:

AFTER LIFE - FOUR STORIES OF TORTURE

(58 minutes)

- Director: Mervi Junkkonen

Original Finnish title:
JÄLKI ELÄMÄSSÄ - 4 TARINAA KIDUTUKSESTA

After Life Trailer at One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Copenhagen International Film Festival, November 2012

DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival

After Life facebook page

2010:

RIO VERDE - THE FIGHT FOR A RIVER

(75 minutes)

- Director: Maria Lappalainen
Original Finnish title: TAISTELU JOESTA


Description of the movie

2007:

PARADISE – THREE JOURNEYS IN THIS WORLD

(51 minutes)

- Director: Elina Hirvonen 
Original Finnish title:
PARATIISI– KOLME MATKAA TÄSSÄ MAAILMASSA


AWARDS FOR PARADISE -THREE JOURNEYS:

-Winner of Nordic Glory Film Festival
("Arktisen Upeeta") in Jyväskylä, Finland.

-Winner of: IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) Student Award.  Link to IDFA.

-Special Prize: Tampere Film Festival 2008

-Diploma of Merit for Editing: Tampere Film Festival 2008.

- 1st Prize, Medium length films: "Ecofilms", Rodos International Films & Visual Arts Festival 2008.
Link to Ecofilms

Description of the movie

Official Selection:

- Tricontinental Film Festival, India, 2009.

- Planet In Focus International Environmental Film & Video
Festival, Austin, Texas, USA, 2008

2007:

SUMMERCHILD

(59 minutes)

- Director: Iris Olsson
Original Finnish title: KESÄN LAPSI


AWARDS FOR SUMMERCHILD:

-Winner of "Kettupäivät" Film Festival
Documentary Student Award.

-President's Award: “Full Frame” Festival,
North Carolina, 2008

-Tromsø Palm award at Tromsø International
Film Festival, Norway, 2008.

-1st Prize: Euganea Movie Movement
Festival, Italy, 2008.

Description of the movie

Summerchild available at Indiepix

2006:

PRISON CHAPLAIN

(45 minutes)

- Director: Lilli Riihiranta
Original Finnish title: VANKILAPASTORI

2005:



EVE AND MARI

(30 minutes)

- Director: Lilli Riihiranta
Original Finnish title: Eve ja Mari

2004:

DUROCHKA

(9 minutes)

- Director: Reetta Aalto

 

Paradise -Three Journeys In This World
    "Paradise - Three Journeys In This World"

 

Paradise -Three Journeys in this LIfe
"Paradise -Three Journeys in this World"

 

After Life Movie Poster - Poster design Jussi Finnilä
"After Life -Four Stories of Torture"
Poster design Jussi Finnilä

 

Summerchild -Kesän lapsi
    "Summerchildi" - "Kesän Lapsi"


  Myn Lappi - My Lapland
    "Mun Lappi" - "My Lapland"

 

Salt Water Fruit -editor Annukka Lilja
"Salt Water Fruit" - " Saltvannsfrukt "


      Annukka Lilja, Film Editor
Annukka Lilja, film editor. Photo by Erik Aschehoug

EDUCATION:

Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu -
University of Art and Design

(now "Aalto University"),
School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design,   Helsinki, FINLAND  

-Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts 
2003 - current

Hunter College CUNY
-Bachelor of Arts  2000
-Phi Beta Kappa

LANGUAGES:

Fluent: English, Finnish and Swedish.
Not fluent:  French and German.

REFERENCES AND FULL RESUME:

Upon Request.

 

2012:

SALT WATER FRUIT

(31 minutes)

Director: Eirik Forus

Original Norwegian title: SALTVANNSFRUKT

Salt Water Fruit facebook page

World premier at Grimstad Short Film Festival June 13, 2012

2011:

A NIGHT AT THE RESTAURANT

(78 minutes)

- Director:  Joakim Groth
- Producer: Claes Olsson/ Kinoproduction Oy

Description: A story about an evening in a restaurant. Six tables, seven stories, a tragicomedy about the fantasies and realities of love.

Original Swedish Title: EN KVÄLL PÅ KROGEN.
Finnish title: ILTA KAPAKASSA
Link

2009:

ON THIN ICE

(60 minutes)

- Director: Alli Haapasalo
Original Finnish title: KUKKULAN KUNINGAS

Trailer for On Thin Ice

On Thin Ice facebook page

AWARDS FOR - ON THIN ICE:

-Winner of the 2009 Nordic Glory Film Festival ("Arktisen Upeeta") in Jyväskylä, Finland.  Link.

-Sehsüchte International Film Festival, Potsdam, Germany, 2010.

-"Play Award" for lead actor Jani
Volanen.  Link to festival site.

Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for best screenplay, Brooklyn International Film Festival, 2010, USA.

Description of the movie

Information about the movie

2008:

SUMMER ESCAPE

(28 minutes)

- Director: Inari Niemi.
Original Finnish title: KESÄPAIKKA

2007:

JUNGLE OF DREAMS

(45 minutes)
- Director: Esa Illi

AWARDS FOR JUNGLE OF DREAMS:
-Diploma of Merit for Editing: Tampere Film Festival 2008.

Description of the movie
2006:

GOD’S TEETH 

(20 minutes)

- Director: Pentti Kasurinen
Original Finnish title: JUMALAN HAMPAAT

Description of the movie

HARVE

(15 minutes)

- Director: Antti Heikki Pesonen
2005:

MY LAPLAND 

(20 minutes) (co-edited)

- Director: Hanna Bergholm
Original Finnish title: MUN LAPPI
Description of the movie
2004:

BEYOND THE BRIDGE

(5 minutes)

- Director: Juha Lankinen
Original Finnish title: SILLAN TUOLLA PUOLEN.