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Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen | |
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 Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen shooting in Uganda in 2015 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 40–41) and 1982 (age 38–39) |
| Occupation | Film directors |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Website | http://www.pohjankonna.fi |
Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen are Finnish filmmakers.
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]
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