Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen shooting in Uganda in 2015
Born1980 (age 43–44) and
1982 (age 41–42)
Finland
OccupationFilm directors
Years active2009–present
Websitehttp://www.pohjankonna.fi

Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen are Finnish filmmakers.

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

  • 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

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

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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