Sarita Koskelin and Kari Paljakka will start in new roles next year.
The Finnish Film Foundation has elected Sarita Koskelin and Kari Paljakka as its new Feature Film Commissioners, starting from Jan 1 2018.
In addition to handling the support for feature films, Koskelin will handle applications for television drama series and Paljakka for minority co-productions.
Koskelin and Paljakka will take over their duties from the current Feature Film Commissioners Hannu Tuomainen and Marjo Valve, who will finish their five-year terms at the end of this year.
Koskelin (formerly Sarita Harma) is a TV producer who is currently executive producer in charge of drama at Finnish MTV Media Company. She has also served on the Finnish Film Foundation’s governing board from 2007 to 2011.
Paljakka is a film director and scriptwriter who has previously served as a Production Consultant at Avek – The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture from 1998 till 2001 and worked as a film producer at Filmitakomo.
Finnish Film Foundation Managing...
The Finnish Film Foundation has elected Sarita Koskelin and Kari Paljakka as its new Feature Film Commissioners, starting from Jan 1 2018.
In addition to handling the support for feature films, Koskelin will handle applications for television drama series and Paljakka for minority co-productions.
Koskelin and Paljakka will take over their duties from the current Feature Film Commissioners Hannu Tuomainen and Marjo Valve, who will finish their five-year terms at the end of this year.
Koskelin (formerly Sarita Harma) is a TV producer who is currently executive producer in charge of drama at Finnish MTV Media Company. She has also served on the Finnish Film Foundation’s governing board from 2007 to 2011.
Paljakka is a film director and scriptwriter who has previously served as a Production Consultant at Avek – The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture from 1998 till 2001 and worked as a film producer at Filmitakomo.
Finnish Film Foundation Managing...
- 4/28/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 21 projects are set to be presented at the event, which last year showcased Cannes hit The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki.
The fifth edition of the Finnish Film Affair runs from September 20 -22. The programme will showcase 40 Finnish titles, screening 24 recent releases and presenting a further 21 films as works in progress, 11 of which are currently in production while 10 are in development.
Expectation is high as it was at the Finnish Film Affair works in progress presentations in 2015 that sales agents and buyers got their first look at Aamu Film Compnay´s The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, which won the Un Certain Regard best film prize at this year´s Cannes Film Festival.
A jury will select a Best Pitch from the eleven Works in Progress projects. The following projects will be vying for the prize awarded by a jury comprising Sergei Rakhlin, chair...
The fifth edition of the Finnish Film Affair runs from September 20 -22. The programme will showcase 40 Finnish titles, screening 24 recent releases and presenting a further 21 films as works in progress, 11 of which are currently in production while 10 are in development.
Expectation is high as it was at the Finnish Film Affair works in progress presentations in 2015 that sales agents and buyers got their first look at Aamu Film Compnay´s The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Mäki, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, which won the Un Certain Regard best film prize at this year´s Cannes Film Festival.
A jury will select a Best Pitch from the eleven Works in Progress projects. The following projects will be vying for the prize awarded by a jury comprising Sergei Rakhlin, chair...
- 9/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
LONDON -- Kari Paljakka was awarded the Sutherland trophy as the director "of the most original and imaginative first feature" for his For The Living And The Dead as the curtain came down Thursday night on the Times BFI London Film Festival. Festival artistic director Sandra Hebron said, " 'For the Living and the Dead' offers a genuinely fresh approach to a taboo subject. Paljakka has created an intimate and unflinching portrait of a grieving family that is both humane and uplifting. This is a powerful and original film and a deserving winner of the BFI Sutherland Trophy." This year also saw the second Alfred Dunhill U.K. film talent award go to producer Gayle Griffiths.
- 11/3/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, Sally Potter's romantic drama Yes and the latest from Canadian cult directors Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar are among the films selected for the Panorama sidebar section at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, Panorama organizers said Thursday. Joining McKellar's comedy Childstar and McDonald's comedy-thriller The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess on the Panorama slate are the French comedy Mariscos Beach, from Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau; Ira Sachs' music-tinged drama Forty Shades of Blue; Dallas, from Romanian helmer Robert-Adrian Pejo; Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu's Waiting for the Clouds; Finnish drama For the Living and the Dead, by Kari Paljakka; and Saratan, a Germany-Kyrgyzstan co-production from Ernest Abdyjaparov.
NEW YORK -- Tom of Finland died last year at the age of 71, but among the gay community, his pioneering paintings of model-perfect men with exaggerated features has already made him immortal.
Hoping to expose his work to a wider audience, and at the same time explain the phenomenon that was Tom of Finland, filmmaker Ilppo Pohjola pays tribute to Tom with this in-depth documentary on the man and his work.
"Daddy and the Muscle Academy'' is aptly named, as it is also an uninhibited look inside the gay leather world. Wearing leather, among this group, is more of a religion than a fashion statement.
Obviously, this type of film will appeal largely to the gay, specifically male, crowd. Appropriately making its New York theatrical premiere at Film Forum, "Daddy and the Muscle Academy'' is fascinating only if you're interested in this kind of art. From a historical aspect it takes an intricate approach toward understanding this once hidden but now bolder subculture.
There is a sense of humor laced among the seriousness of Tom's fans, and in his own words, but there is also a sense of redundancy that becomes a bit tedious if you're not familiar with or overly interested in his paintings.
Obviously very much influenced by World War II, Tom Early's paintings sported Nazi superman types. Huge, muscular men wearing leather, motorcyle caps and other "manly'' paraphernalia distinguished Tom's work.
Later, he felt the need to exaggerate even further some of the men's features, especially their penises, as a means of competing with actual photographs. The machoness machismo inherent in his work was intentional, designed to encourage gay men who felt like failures because of their sexual preference.
Indeed, Tom's idolizers are many and effusive in their praise and gratitude. In homage they have even formed a Tom of Finland Foundation.
Tom himself is an engaging if enigmatic character. He recalls with relish his first pair of boots and laments the fact that no matter how hard he tries he can't draw attractive women.
The insider look at the leather crowd, as they make themselves up or pump iron, is both explicit and disturbing. One man describes leather as a substitute for a partner. The intensity of these men is overwhelming.
The eerie music by Elliot Sharp, reminiscent of the score from "Rosemary's Baby, '' achieves the proper haunting atmosphere and is quite memorable in its own right.
"Daddy and the Muscle Academy'' plays directly to the gay crowd, but sexual content aside, it also demonstrates the undeniable talent of Tom of Finland. It's not a film for everyone, nor is it meant to be. But it is a fitting tribute to the man who bravely paved the way with his art.
DADDY AND THE MUSCLE ACADEMY
Zeitgeist Films Release
Director-writer Ilppo Pohjola
Cinematographer Kjell Lagerroos
Editor Jorma Hori
Original music Elliot Sharp
Producers Kari Paljakka, Alvaro Pardo
Color
In English and Finnish, with subtitles
Running time -- 55 minutes
No MPAA rating but no one under 18 years of age will be admitted
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Hoping to expose his work to a wider audience, and at the same time explain the phenomenon that was Tom of Finland, filmmaker Ilppo Pohjola pays tribute to Tom with this in-depth documentary on the man and his work.
"Daddy and the Muscle Academy'' is aptly named, as it is also an uninhibited look inside the gay leather world. Wearing leather, among this group, is more of a religion than a fashion statement.
Obviously, this type of film will appeal largely to the gay, specifically male, crowd. Appropriately making its New York theatrical premiere at Film Forum, "Daddy and the Muscle Academy'' is fascinating only if you're interested in this kind of art. From a historical aspect it takes an intricate approach toward understanding this once hidden but now bolder subculture.
There is a sense of humor laced among the seriousness of Tom's fans, and in his own words, but there is also a sense of redundancy that becomes a bit tedious if you're not familiar with or overly interested in his paintings.
Obviously very much influenced by World War II, Tom Early's paintings sported Nazi superman types. Huge, muscular men wearing leather, motorcyle caps and other "manly'' paraphernalia distinguished Tom's work.
Later, he felt the need to exaggerate even further some of the men's features, especially their penises, as a means of competing with actual photographs. The machoness machismo inherent in his work was intentional, designed to encourage gay men who felt like failures because of their sexual preference.
Indeed, Tom's idolizers are many and effusive in their praise and gratitude. In homage they have even formed a Tom of Finland Foundation.
Tom himself is an engaging if enigmatic character. He recalls with relish his first pair of boots and laments the fact that no matter how hard he tries he can't draw attractive women.
The insider look at the leather crowd, as they make themselves up or pump iron, is both explicit and disturbing. One man describes leather as a substitute for a partner. The intensity of these men is overwhelming.
The eerie music by Elliot Sharp, reminiscent of the score from "Rosemary's Baby, '' achieves the proper haunting atmosphere and is quite memorable in its own right.
"Daddy and the Muscle Academy'' plays directly to the gay crowd, but sexual content aside, it also demonstrates the undeniable talent of Tom of Finland. It's not a film for everyone, nor is it meant to be. But it is a fitting tribute to the man who bravely paved the way with his art.
DADDY AND THE MUSCLE ACADEMY
Zeitgeist Films Release
Director-writer Ilppo Pohjola
Cinematographer Kjell Lagerroos
Editor Jorma Hori
Original music Elliot Sharp
Producers Kari Paljakka, Alvaro Pardo
Color
In English and Finnish, with subtitles
Running time -- 55 minutes
No MPAA rating but no one under 18 years of age will be admitted
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 12/1/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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