Documentary in Finland: History, Practice and Policy

ISBN-13: 9781787077461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 163 str.

Dafydd Sills-Jones

Opis

This book examines the ecology of Finland's documentary filmmaking milieu by framing and analysing a series of encounters with its most important financiers, producers and directors. What emerges is a portrait of an interconnected ecology of relationships and practices, typical of a small nation documentary cinema and of Nordic film cultures.

Spis treści

Contents: The Finnish Documentary Ecosystem - A Brief History of Finnish Documentary - The Current Finnish Documentary Scene - Financiers' Panel - Producers' Panel - Directors' Panel - Conclusion: Finnish Documentary Beyond the Golden Age.

O autorze

Jouko Aaltonen is Docent (Adjunct Professor) at Aalto University Helsinki. As a researcher, he specialises in Finnish documentary film, the filmmaking process, and the rhetoric of documentary film. He is also an active documentary filmmaker.

Pietari Kääpä is a Reader in Media and Communications at the University of Warwick. He specialises in environmental media and has also published widely on Nordic film, including Finnish documentary.

Dafydd Sills-Jones is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Auckland University of Technology. He writes about documentary, minority language media and media education.