Anssi Kasitonni

Pena’s Special Hauling

Real name: Anssi Heinonen. Born in Virrat, Finland. Studied at Lahti Institute of Fine Arts.

A film director and artist, he is highly popular among art enthusiasts for his playful yet well-structured works. His diverse experiences include working at a sawmill during summer, being a weightlifter, a truck driver at a feed factory, and engaging in bicycle, moped, and car tuning. He has also worked as a turkey chick sorter.

Sources　https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10002620

company
AV-arkki – The Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art

films in the NP film catalogue
Deus ex Machina
Le Saboteur
Pena’s Special Hauling

Eri Vuorinen

Company　Böhle Studios

List of Directed Works
Benigni
The Tongueling
Wormhole
Sore Eyes for Infinity
Still Lives
Flower Show

Elli Vuorinen
company
Böhle Studios

films in the NP film catalogue
Benigni
The Tongueling
Wormhole
Sore Eyes for Infinity
Still Lives
Flower Show

Elli Vuorinen is an animation artist who lives and works in rural Finland. Her works often strike a balance between surreal, symbolic, and playful. While her approach is often humorous, her films explore significant themes such as melancholy, humanity, and social structures.

Elli’s approach to filmmaking is versatile – blending digital and handcrafted in the intermediate terrain of fine arts and animation industry. She likes to experiment with the form and structure of narrative and storytelling. Different animation techniques also inspire her. Vuorinen’s farm studio allows her to work with everything between large scale stop motion, multichannel installations and drawn animation.

She works in a causal rhythm, where each new work is a reaction to the previous one, always taking a different direction. This constant curiosity and search for new methods, learning new skills and ways to express herself is in the center of her art practice.

She graduated from Turku Arts Academy where she now works as a senior lecturer in animation. She also runs a small production company Böhle Studios with her husband. The company produces short animations from talented auteurs.

Her six previous animated short films have won numerous awards in festivals such as Animafest Zagreb, Tampere, Fantoche, Chitose, Fredrikstad, Busho Budapest and Fest Anca.

In her free time, Elli likes to hike, cook and play with her daughter.

https://ellivuorinen.com/about-elli-vuorinen/

Teemu Nikki

An experienced, prolific, self-taught, and award-winning filmmaker, he is the son of a pig farmer from Sysmä, Finland. Nikki’s style is best described as unapologetic political satire with a deep sense of goodwill toward humanity.

His latest work, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic, won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival. Other notable works include Nimby (2020), Euthanizer (2017), and the TV series Mister8 and Mental (both released in 2021). He is currently working on the feature film Death is a Problem for the Living, which is in post-production.

Filmography
2022 Tuurikki (14 min)
2021 The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (82 min)
2021 Mental 3 (8 episodes)
2021 Mister8 (8 episodes)
2020 Nimby (94 min)
2019 All Inclusive (14 min)
2018 Mental 2 (10 episodes)
2018 The Cleaner (16 min)
2017 Euthanizer (83 min)
2016 Mental (10 episodes)
2016 The Log (7 min)
2015 Lovemilla (96 min)
2015 Fantasy (10 min)
2014 Boobs (17 min)
2014 #lovemilla 3 (20 episodes)
2014 #lovemilla 2 (24 episodes)
2013 #lovemilla 1 (26 episodes)
2012 Simo Times Three (86 min)