”Warm movies from a cold land.”
Pohjola-filmi is a film production company that specializes in northern cinema. We make feature-length and short films, documentaries and fiction. What counts is not the form but the content: we want to say something important about this world and the people in it.
Pohjola-filmi was founded in 2009 by producer Elina Pohjola and screenwriter Mike Pohjola. The company is developing several film projects with several writers and directors.
Elina Pohjola (b. 1981) has graduated as a Media Producer from the Turku Arts Academy, and is studying Film and Television Producing at the University of Arts and Design, Helsinki. She’s worked on several Finnish movies, and has produced several short films. Her speciality is vast knowledge of Icelandic cinema.
Mike Pohjola (b. 1978) is a screenwriter, an author and a game designer, who’s studied at the University of Turku, New York Film Academy and the University of Arts and Design, Helsinki. He’s written three books, a couple of roleplaying games, several theatre plays, and some feature films that are now in development. He’s also a co-founder of the Emmy-winning Swedish media house The company P.
About Marriage
The company’s first production was the romantic documentary About Marriage, a unique and rough movie about love. Elina and Mike are getting married even though they have opposed marriage. The makers talk about their feelings and the meaning of marriage. The interviews are peppered with dramatized parts where actors Samuli Vauramo and Pihla Viitala present the story of the main couple. In the end the viewer also wants to be in love.
Contact information:
Pohjola-filmi Oy
Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Rakennus 7
00540 Helsinki
pohjolafilmi@pohjolafilmi.fi
Elina Pohjola
CEO, Producer
elina.pohjola@pohjolafilmi.fi
+358-44-5031881
Mike Pohjola
Dramaturg
mike.pohjola@pohjolafilmi.fi
+358-50-5238399