2011:
FOUR STORIES OF TORTURE
(working title)
- Director: Mervi Junkkonen
To be released Nov 2011.
Original Finnish title:
NELJÄ TARINAA KIDUTUKSESTA.
2010:
RIO VERDE - THE FIGHT FOR A RIVER
(75 minutes)
- Director: Maria Lappalainen
Original Finnish title: TAISTELU JOESTA
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
PRISON CHAPLAIN
(45 minutes) - Director: Lilli Riihiranta
Original Finnish title: VANKILAPASTORI.
EVE AND MARI
(30 minutes)
- Director: Lilli Riihiranta
Original Finnish title: Eve ja Mari
DUROCHKA
(9 minutes)- Director: Reetta Aalto
"Paradise - Three Journeys In This World"
Paradise -Three Journeys in this World
"Summerchildi" - "Kesän Lapsi"
"Mun Lappi" - "My Lapland"
My photography. Ireland church.
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.
2011:
A NIGHT AT THE RESTAURANT
(78 minutes)- Director: Joakim Groth
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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 title (in Swedish): EN KVÄLL PÅ KROGEN.
Finnish title: ILTA KAPAKASSA.
Link
2009:
ON THIN ICE
(60 minutes)- Director: Alli Haapasalo
Original Finnish title: KUKKULAN KUNINGAS.
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
SUMMER ESCAPE
(28 minutes)- Director: Inari Niemi.
Original Finnish title: KESÄPAIKKA.
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
GOD’S TEETH
(20 minutes)- Director: Pentti Kasurinen
Original Finnish title: JUMALAN HAMPAAT.
Description of the movie
HARVE
(15 minutes)- Director: Antti Heikki Pesonen
MY LAPLAND
(20 minutes) (co-edited)- Director: Hanna Bergholm
Original Finnish title: MUN LAPPI.
Description of the movie
BEYOND THE BRIDGE
(5 minutes)- Director: Juha Lankinen
Original Finnish title: SILLAN TUOLLA PUOLEN.
SOME OTHER FILM RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
ASSISTANT FILM EDITOR:2007:
"Recipes for Disaster" (Katastrofin aineksia)
- Director: John Webster
"Tummien Perhosten Koti"
– Director: Dome Karukoski
"Dark Floors"
– Director: Pete Riski
"Tuhma Jussi"
- Director: Juha Mustanoja
"Röllin sydän" (trailer-music video)
– Director: Pekka Lehtosaari
2006:
"Colorado Avenue"
- Director: Claes Olsson
2005:
"Heitelläänhän Kääpiöitäkin"
– Director: Markku Haapalehto
"Huvudrollen"
- Director: Klaus Härö
