Dance Out Of Line, October 2020

In the Erasmus+ project Dance Out Of Line a professional dancer and a person with a disability make a joint dance together. This dance is performed in Finnish schools for children of the ages 9-12. We, the dancers, Vea Vainio and Janna Thorström also run workshops for the kids and speak to them about equality…

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Burlesque with Lady Laverna

In Burlesque with Lady Laverna the Finnish actress Lidia Bäck travels to Berlin for a big Burlesque event. She speaks about objectification of the female body, sexuality and how an enormous change has happened inside of herself due to Burlesque. We will hopefully in the future have English subtitles for this film. Watch the film…

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The Man in the Making airs on Finnish TV, April 2018

It is finally time for the TV premiere of our three part TV series The Man in the Making! The films can be viewed abroad at Yle Arenan. Hopefully in time we will also have English subtitles for you that do not understand Swedish or Finnish! The women’s liberation movement has since the 1970’s worked to…

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ABOUT US

Pink Orbit is a TV and film production company run by two women who suffer from big hearts and the drive to question everything. We are interested in all kinds of marginal phenomena – our co-operation actually started out of an unstoppable inspiration to make a movie about a biologist who talks to ghosts. Watch movie here with subtitles in English

Emma and Janna work together as a team, exploring the dimensions that true co-operation can bring – co-creating their films, sharing the jobs of director, producer, script writer and interviewer.

Emma Fogelholm (to the right) has worked as director and script writer at YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, as well as for Tellus Works productions of the lifestyle program This Perfect Day – airing on PBS. After a short break writing and illustrating a children’s book she partnered with Janna…

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Janna Thorström has studied graphic design, clothing and glass design at the University of Industrial Art and Design (now Aalto University, MA) and has taken part in a variety of creative projects. But her greatest passion might be the inquiry into how the mind and the body are interconnected – in fact she started off studying biology at the University of Helsinki…

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