Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
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Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen | |
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 Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen shooting in Uganda in 2015 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 43–44) and 1982 (age 41–42) |
| Occupation | Film directors |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Website | http://www.pohjankonna.fi |
Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen are Finnish filmmakers.
Biography[edit]
Hannes Vartiainen met Pekka Veikkolainen in Järvenpää in 1990. After finishing high school Vartiainen graduated as a film director from the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia while Veikkolainen studied graphic design at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.[1]
They have been working together since 2007, founding a production company Pohjankonna Oy in 2008 and finishing their first film in 2009. Since then they have released a number of short films (that won numerous awards[2][3][4][5][6][7] and had books written about them[8]), entered the world of fulldome films (founding Leading Note Pictures Oy in 2017) and dipped into VR.[9]
Their frequent collaborators include Joonatan Portaankorva (who has composed and sound designed all the films) and Janne Pulkkinen (who specialises in visualising micro-CT and other forms of volumetric data).[10]
Filmography[edit]
Short films[edit]
- Hanasaari A (2009)
- The Death of an Insect / Erään hyönteisen tuho (2010)
- Gates of Life / Häivähdys elämää (2012)
- Emergency Calls / Hätäkutsu (2013)
- Finlandia review no. 701 / Finlandia-katsaus no. 701 (2017)
- Optic Identity (2017) together with Janne Pulkkinen and Huayi Wei
- Taking the Floor / Puheenvuoro (2017)
Fulldome films[edit]
- The Secret World of Moths / Yöperhosten salattu maailma (2016)
- The Baltic Sea / Itämeri (2018)
- The Embrace of the Ocean / Meren uumen (2019)
References[edit]
- ^ "Festival Scope page".
- ^ "Helsingin Sanomat about Hanasaari A".
- ^ "YLE's article on The Death of an Insect".
- ^ "Guanojuato Film Festival winners".
- ^ "Flatpack Film Festival winners".
- ^ "Fulldome Festival winners".
- ^ "Imagine Science winners".
- ^ "Sanokaa mitä näitte - a book by Harri Römpötti".
- ^ "Ghent University profile".
- ^ "Nature Middle East interview".
External links[edit]
- Pohjankonna Oy website
- Pohjankonna Oy vimeo
- Tomographic renders
- Hannes Vartiainen at IMDb
- Pekka Veikkolainen at IMDb
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