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"Split" - feature with cult potential was presented at Cartoon Movie (Lyon).

The award-winning director Tatu Pohjavirta is writing a feature film script called "Split". This puppetanimation is meant for adult audience. The story tells about a young street artist Otto, who has to solve his relation to violence in order to love. He falls in love with the wrong girl, causes accidental death of a detective and then meets his hated father in the prison.
"Split" is now at development phase, a trailer (45 sec.), the first sketches of the main characters and the second version of the script are ready. The project has got development money from the Finnish Film Foundation and the National council of Cinema. MEDIA-development application was sent in April.
Director Pohjavirta and producer Jyrki Kaipainen will be present at MIFA (Annecy 9. - 11.6.2010) to look for co-production partners and distributor as well as other connections.

"Edith" is ready
The drawn 2D animation "Edith" (7 min.) got ready in the beginning of June 2010. The film is directed by Taru Anttila. Commissioning editor is YLE TV1 Co-productions.

"FARUZA! - life behind the copper masks
The production of "Faruza", a classical puppet animation by Katariina Lillqvist, will start this autumn. "Faruza" is an Oriental folktale with very present subject - it describes the life of an isolated tribe on a faraway Persian island where all women over 12 ears of age had to wear copper masks until the day they died. But once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman´s daughter named Faruza, who dared to make questions and search for the path of her own.

The documentary "Under Our Sky" (dir. Heidi Vilkman, 28 min.) got ready in the beginning of the year and was broadcasted in the national television on February 2010. "Under Our Sky" is an insight picture about the Thai berry pickers who fly every year to Finland to pick cloudberries and blueberries. The documentary was shot in Finland and in Thailand.

The documentary ”This Country Was Not Mine” (directed by Katariina Lillqvist) is a 60-minute movie about the history, culture and the modern day of the Finnish Roma people. Premiere 3.9.2008 in Helsinki. Read more!

Katariina Lillqvist's films on spotlight at Hiroshima Animated Film Festival 2008

This year, Hiroshima Animated Film Festival - the most acclaimed animation festival in Asia - has a special program about Finnish animation. At the festival, there will be a whole program slot dedicated to Katariina's films. The films include: ”Far away from Ural” (2008), ”The Country Doctor” (1996), ”Maiden and the Soldier” (1995) and ”Chamberstork” (1993). In addition, Tommi Juutilainen's animation ”The Anchor” (2007) will be seen on the festival also. Katariina and producer Jyrki Kaipainen were invited to participate in the festival.

Camera Cagliostro´s animation "Far away from Ural" has aroused a huge cultural debate

Camera Cagliostro´s latest puppet animation "Far away from Ural" (dir. Katariina Lillqvist, 26 min.) has aroused a huge cultural debate in Finland.

The animation tells about the cruel Finnish Civil war (1918) where fellow citizens were slaughtered without any trial. What is more scandalous, the film hints that the holy man of Finnish history - one of the responsibles in the war - Marshal C.G. Mannerheim was possibly gay. The reactions show that the wounds of the war are still there. The director’s privacy has been threatened. Read the article about the debate!

Film-co-operative Camera Cagliostro has proven it´s reliability in Finland as well as abroad. The company has produced e.g. the animation series Mire Bala Kale Hin, which is a co-production with three national televisions ( Finland /YLE, Czech Republic /CTV, and Holland/KRO).

Director Katariina Lillqvist´s animations are very highly valued internationally. Lillqvist´s retrospectives have been shown in several big festivals. She has won many prizes, like the Silver Bear in Berlin 1996. In 2005 well known Hollywood film producer Frederick Fuchs and Katariina Lillqvist made a contract of film option of Lillqvist´s radio documentary "The Boy of the Circus". 2006 she got the highly acclaimed Finnish National Arts Award for her work.

Tatu Pohjavirta is one of the very promising new talents in the Finnish animation scene. His puppet animation "Animal" (2005) has won several international awards ( e.g. in Angers, Tampere, Hamburg). Read more and see the pictures!

Camera Cagliostro also co-operates with other animation and fiction film artists and directors. Drawn animation “The Anchor” (see pictures) by Tommi Juutilainen just got ready. It also works fruitfully with various well known Czech animation artists and the Hafan Studio in Praque.