A trio of well-experienced Finnish producers, Eero Hietala, Lasse Koskinen and Ilkka Hynninen, have joined forces to launch Take Two Studios, a production company which will focus on premium drama, documentaries and podcasts.
Hietala and Hynninen previously co-founded Aito Media in 2003 and produced more than 1,700 hours of programming during their 18-year run as co-ceo’s. Their recent credits as executive producers include the series “Almost True” and “Pirjo,” half-hour comedy “Mother-in-Paw” and procedural crime drama “Lakeside Murders.”
“After a long, successful stint growing a Finnish generalist production company to exit stage, now in this second chapter of our entrepreneurial careers we have decided to become a strong international specialist in drama and documentary production,” said Hynninen and Hietala. “We are full of energy and enthusiasm to bring stories we are passionate about to international screens,” added the pair.
Koskinen, who will serve as Take Two Studios’ CEO, has worked for...
Hietala and Hynninen previously co-founded Aito Media in 2003 and produced more than 1,700 hours of programming during their 18-year run as co-ceo’s. Their recent credits as executive producers include the series “Almost True” and “Pirjo,” half-hour comedy “Mother-in-Paw” and procedural crime drama “Lakeside Murders.”
“After a long, successful stint growing a Finnish generalist production company to exit stage, now in this second chapter of our entrepreneurial careers we have decided to become a strong international specialist in drama and documentary production,” said Hynninen and Hietala. “We are full of energy and enthusiasm to bring stories we are passionate about to international screens,” added the pair.
Koskinen, who will serve as Take Two Studios’ CEO, has worked for...
- 10/1/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Instinct, the psychological thriller starring Game of Thrones‘ Carice van Houten and Aladdin‘s Marwan Kenzari, has been chosen by The Netherlands as the country’s official selection in the Oscars’ International Feature Film race.
The pic, which won an award for its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival and is prepping for its North American premiere this month at Toronto, is from first-time feature director Halina Reijn. The plot revolves around and experienced psychologist working in a penal institution who becomes obsessed with a sex offender who appears to be ready to return to society. (See a trailer below.)
Topkapi Films produced in a co-production with Man Up and Bnnvara, and is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive en CoBo Fund. Films Boutique is handling international sales...
The pic, which won an award for its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival and is prepping for its North American premiere this month at Toronto, is from first-time feature director Halina Reijn. The plot revolves around and experienced psychologist working in a penal institution who becomes obsessed with a sex offender who appears to be ready to return to society. (See a trailer below.)
Topkapi Films produced in a co-production with Man Up and Bnnvara, and is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive en CoBo Fund. Films Boutique is handling international sales...
- 9/2/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Finland has chosen Selma Vihunen's Stupid Young Heart, a love story about a young couple that drifts into the neo-Nazi scene, to represent the country in next year's Oscar race in the international film category.
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Finland has chosen Selma Vihunen's Stupid Young Heart, a love story about a young couple that drifts into the neo-Nazi scene, to represent the country in next year's Oscar race in the international film category.
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Jere Ristseppa and Rosa Honkonen star as Lenni and Kiira, a mismatched high school couple. He's a scrawny skateboard punk, and she's the popular dance team captain. But they hook up and, when Kiira gets pregnant, Lenni begins to look for guidance, and the father figure he never had, in Janne (Ville Haapasalo), a charismatic member of a far-right extremist group. Lenni ...
Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Finnish sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired worldwide rights to Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema strand.
The project is written by Kirsikka Saarì, who collaborated with Vilhunen on the Oscar-nominated short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Stupid Young Heart revolves around two suburban teenagers who discover they are expecting a baby. Lacking a father figure himself, Lenni latches on to a member of a right-...
Finnish sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired worldwide rights to Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema strand.
The project is written by Kirsikka Saarì, who collaborated with Vilhunen on the Oscar-nominated short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Stupid Young Heart revolves around two suburban teenagers who discover they are expecting a baby. Lacking a father figure himself, Lenni latches on to a member of a right-...
- 9/10/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
It was fun to laugh back in January when Donald Trump spoke to the media about how he wanted fewer immigrants from “shithole” countries and more from the likes of Norway. We laughed because it was obvious what the difference between the two was for him, but there’s a growing trend towards radical right populism and nationalism over there too. Just as Nazis have come out of the woodwork in America under their rebranded moniker “alt-right,” nations such as Finland have been combatting their own fair share of racial unrest targeting Muslim immigrants. And while you wouldn’t think so at first, Selma Vilhunen’s latest film Stupid Young Heart depicts the resurgence.
Before this underlying trend infiltrates Kirsikka Saari’s script, however, the story arrives as a document of young love and responsibility between Lenni (Jere Ristseppä) and Kiira (Rosa Honkonen). The two prove an odd match in...
Before this underlying trend infiltrates Kirsikka Saari’s script, however, the story arrives as a document of young love and responsibility between Lenni (Jere Ristseppä) and Kiira (Rosa Honkonen). The two prove an odd match in...
- 9/9/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Hobbyhorse Revolution will be presented at Nordisk Panorama later this month.
Selma Vilhunen, the Finnish director making her feature debut with Little Wing in Toronto International Film Festival’s (Sept 8-18) Discovery strand, is already in post on her next feature, a documentary entitled Hobbyhorse Revolution. Cats & Docs handles international sales and the film, co-produced with Sweden’s Bautafilm, will be presented as a work in progress at Nordisk Panorama later this month; it will be delivered for early 2017 festivals.
TV deals are already in place with Yle in Finland and Svt in Sweden; the team at Vilhunen’s Helsinki-based Tuffi Films is looking for a partner to turn the subject – Finnish teenage girls obsessed with hobbyhorses – into an online or TV series as well.
Tuffi producer Venla Hellstedt commented, “This is a kick-ass film about a girls’ subculture.”
Tuffi is also pitching Vilhunen’s second fiction feature, Stupid Young Heart, which was presented...
Selma Vilhunen, the Finnish director making her feature debut with Little Wing in Toronto International Film Festival’s (Sept 8-18) Discovery strand, is already in post on her next feature, a documentary entitled Hobbyhorse Revolution. Cats & Docs handles international sales and the film, co-produced with Sweden’s Bautafilm, will be presented as a work in progress at Nordisk Panorama later this month; it will be delivered for early 2017 festivals.
TV deals are already in place with Yle in Finland and Svt in Sweden; the team at Vilhunen’s Helsinki-based Tuffi Films is looking for a partner to turn the subject – Finnish teenage girls obsessed with hobbyhorses – into an online or TV series as well.
Tuffi producer Venla Hellstedt commented, “This is a kick-ass film about a girls’ subculture.”
Tuffi is also pitching Vilhunen’s second fiction feature, Stupid Young Heart, which was presented...
- 9/9/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Latvia’s Official entry for the Academy Awards Gulf Stream Under The Iceberg will have its North American premiere this month at the Scandinavian Film Festival of Los Angeles - www.Ssfla.net.
The Sffla is leading the industry by extending its program to include its Baltic neighbors from Latvia and Lithuania. Ahead of the curve, the 14 year old festival has carved out a loyal and dedicated audience during the last lobbying weeks of a busy award season over the two weekends in January 12&13 and 19&20 at the Writer’s Guild in Beverly Hills.
“Northern European countries have often taken to the seas with a cargo of culture, commerce and collaboration,” says festival founder/director James Koenig. “We have an exciting program that follows old routes to new worlds and now we are journeying around to our Baltic neighborhood where cultural cross-currents have been a reality since even before Hanseatic ‘happenings’!”
This year the program will begin with Yevgeny Pashkevich’s mythical fairy tale Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg, a kaleidoscopic and hypnotic affair inspired by the works of Anatole France and influenced by Talmud and the medieval books of Cabala. It is the self-absorbing story about Adam´s first wife, Lilith – how humanity tries to run away from Eden and strives to become sinless, yet ultimately ends up trapped in its own unconsciousness.A
Written & Directed by Yevgeny Pahskevich, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg is produced by Yevgeny Pashkevich, Natalia Ivanova and stars Olga Shepitskaya, Ville Haapasalo, Danila Kozlovsky, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, and Yuriy Tsurilo. Executive producers are Kristians Luhaers, Antra Cilinska and Maria Ksinopulo. Wide Management is handling worldwide sales.
Sffla 2013 will continue its strong line-up of showcasing Scandinavian films - premiering features, documentaries, shorts from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and which will include this year’s Academy’s short-list of Foreign Language films from Iceland Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep, and Norway’s Golden Globe nominee Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg’s Kon-tiki; with Sweden’s Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair closing the festival. Other Academy submissions include Finland’s entry Antti Joinen’s Purge, Latvia’s Yevgeny Pashkevich’s Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg and Lithuania’s Loss from Maris Martinsons.
The shorts program will also include two Academy short-listed films: Anders Walter’s 9 Meter (Denmark) and Goran Kapetanovic’s Kiruna-Kigali (Sweden)
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg Premieres Saturday, January 12 at 11am
WGA
135 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills - www.nidafilma.lv
Ticket sales: www.Sffla.net
Sales enquiries: www.widemanagement.com...
The Sffla is leading the industry by extending its program to include its Baltic neighbors from Latvia and Lithuania. Ahead of the curve, the 14 year old festival has carved out a loyal and dedicated audience during the last lobbying weeks of a busy award season over the two weekends in January 12&13 and 19&20 at the Writer’s Guild in Beverly Hills.
“Northern European countries have often taken to the seas with a cargo of culture, commerce and collaboration,” says festival founder/director James Koenig. “We have an exciting program that follows old routes to new worlds and now we are journeying around to our Baltic neighborhood where cultural cross-currents have been a reality since even before Hanseatic ‘happenings’!”
This year the program will begin with Yevgeny Pashkevich’s mythical fairy tale Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg, a kaleidoscopic and hypnotic affair inspired by the works of Anatole France and influenced by Talmud and the medieval books of Cabala. It is the self-absorbing story about Adam´s first wife, Lilith – how humanity tries to run away from Eden and strives to become sinless, yet ultimately ends up trapped in its own unconsciousness.A
Written & Directed by Yevgeny Pahskevich, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg is produced by Yevgeny Pashkevich, Natalia Ivanova and stars Olga Shepitskaya, Ville Haapasalo, Danila Kozlovsky, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, and Yuriy Tsurilo. Executive producers are Kristians Luhaers, Antra Cilinska and Maria Ksinopulo. Wide Management is handling worldwide sales.
Sffla 2013 will continue its strong line-up of showcasing Scandinavian films - premiering features, documentaries, shorts from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and which will include this year’s Academy’s short-list of Foreign Language films from Iceland Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep, and Norway’s Golden Globe nominee Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg’s Kon-tiki; with Sweden’s Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair closing the festival. Other Academy submissions include Finland’s entry Antti Joinen’s Purge, Latvia’s Yevgeny Pashkevich’s Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg and Lithuania’s Loss from Maris Martinsons.
The shorts program will also include two Academy short-listed films: Anders Walter’s 9 Meter (Denmark) and Goran Kapetanovic’s Kiruna-Kigali (Sweden)
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg Premieres Saturday, January 12 at 11am
WGA
135 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills - www.nidafilma.lv
Ticket sales: www.Sffla.net
Sales enquiries: www.widemanagement.com...
- 1/6/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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