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Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
	Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen shooting in Uganda in 2015
Born	1980 (age 44–45) and; 1982 (age 42–43); Finland
Occupation	Film directors
Years active	2009–present
Website	http://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

^ "Festival Scope page".
^ "Helsingin Sanomat about Hanasaari A".
^ "YLE's article on The Death of an Insect".
^ "Guanojuato Film Festival winners".
^ "Flatpack Film Festival winners".
^ "Fulldome Festival winners". Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
^ "Imagine Science winners".
^ "Sanokaa mitä näitte - a book by Harri Römpötti".
^ "Ghent University profile". Archived from the original on 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
^ "Nature Middle East interview". Archived from the original on 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

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[:1-1] "Festival Scope page".

[:2-2] "Helsingin Sanomat about Hanasaari A".

[:3-3] "YLE's article on The Death of an Insect".

[:4-4] "Guanojuato Film Festival winners".

[:5-5] "Flatpack Film Festival winners".

[:6-6] "Fulldome Festival winners". Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-07-12.

[:7-7] "Imagine Science winners".

[:8-8] "Sanokaa mitä näitte - a book by Harri Römpötti".

[:9-9] "Ghent University profile". Archived from the original on 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

[:10-10] "Nature Middle East interview". Archived from the original on 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

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