Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen

Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen are Finnish filmmakers.

Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen shooting in Uganda in 2015
Born1980 & 1982
Finland
Occupationfilm directors
Years active2009–present
Websitehttp://www.pohjankonna.fi

Biography

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

Short films
  • Taking the Floor / Puheenvuoro (2017)
  • Optic Identity (2017) together with Janne Pulkkinen and Huayi Wei
  • Finlandia review no. 701 / Finlandia-katsaus no. 701 (2017)
  • Emergency Calls / Hätäkutsu (2013)
  • Gates of Life / Häivähdys elämää (2012)
  • The Death of an Insect / Erään hyönteisen tuho (2010)
  • Hanasaari A (2009)

Fulldome films
  • The Embrace of the Ocean / Meren uumen (2019)
  • The Baltic Sea / Itämeri (2018)
  • The Secret World of Moths / Yöperhosten salattu maailma (2016)

References
  1. "Festival Scope page".
  2. "Helsingin Sanomat about Hanasaari A".
  3. "YLE's article on The Death of an Insect".
  4. "Guanojuato Film Festival winners".
  5. "Flatpack Film Festival winners".
  6. "Fulldome Festival winners".
  7. "Imagine Science winners".
  8. "Sanokaa mitä näitte - a book by Harri Römpötti".
  9. "Ghent University profile".
  10. "Nature Middle East interview".


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