Feature-length fiction:
BOY UPSIDE DOWN (AIKUISTEN POIKA)
A tragicomedy about an 11-year-old boy whose parents die in a car accident. The boy refuses to mourn; instead, he gets to know adults with deceitful lives. The boy changes all of their destinies and ends up with a new but different kind of family.
Director: Juha Lehtola
Script: Juha Lehtola
Producer: Liisa Penttilä
Shooting schedule: June-July 2013
Premiere: December 2013
Financing TV company: YLE
Distribution in Finland: FS Film
Budget: 1 201 000,00 €
Total support of the Finnish Film Foundation: 750 000,00 €
Production company: Edith Film Oy
PRINCESS OF EGYPT (EGYPTIN PRINSESSA)
Marja, 27, is a single mother. She works at nights delivering newspapers and spends days taking care of her daughter Julia, 7. It’s August and Julia is supposed to start school, but for some reason Marja has problems letting her go.
One day on a street they meet Kamaran, a Kurd emigrant and Marja’s old flame. Kamaran turns out to be Julia’s father who’s never even known that he has a daughter.
As Julia starts to realize, who this strange man is, Marja turns more and more possessive. And as racist tendencies grow amongst her colleagues Marja decides to get an illegal gun. Just to make sure that her daughter will not be taken away from her.
Director:Jan Forsström
Script: Jan Forsström
Producer: Kaarle Aho
Shooting schedule: August 2012
Premiere: September 2013
Distribution in Finland: Atlantic Film Finland Oy
Financing TV company: Nelonen Media (Channel Four Finland),
Budget: 526 000,00 €
Total support of the Finnish Film Foundation: 300 000,00 €
Production company: Making Movies Oy
CONCRETE NIGHT (BETONIYÖ)
Concrete Night opens up in a cramped, concrete-jungle home. Ilkka, the elder of the two brothers, is getting ready to go and serve his prison sentence. During Ilkka’s last 24 hours of freedom, his little brother Simo follows the brother whom he admires through the fateful sights of that night.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Script: Pirjo Honkasalo (based on a novel by Pirkko Saisio)
Producers: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff, Erik Hemmendorf
Shooting schedule: September-November 2012
Premiere: Autumn 2013
Distribution in Finland: CinemaMondo Ltd
Financing TV company: YLE
Budget: 1 620 000,00 €
Total support of the Finnish Film Foundation: 780 000,00 €
Production company: Oy Bufo Ab
Co-production company: Plattform Produktion Ab (SWE)
TV-series:
NYMPHS (NYMFIT)
Nymphs are lethal to men. But without men, they won’t survive. Three nymphs, Didi, Cathy and Nadia, lives among us, forever young, dangerously seductive and ever so deadly. One day a young human male, Samuel, moves into the Nymphs’ student apartment and Didi falls passionately in love with him. This forbidden love and doomed relationship brings only trouble to both species.
Director: Miikko Oikkonen
Script: Miikko Oikkonen
Producer: Matti Halonen
Shooting schedule: September-December 2012
Premiere: Autumn 2013/Spring 2014
Financing TV company: MTV3
Sales Agent: Nonstop Sales
Distribution: MTV3 (Finland), Volga Film (Russia and CIS), Zylo (France), Viva Mondo (French-speaking Canada)
Budget: 2 160 000,00 €
Total support of the Finnish Film Foundation: 140 000,00 €
Production company: Fisher King Production Oy
